Members of the Unite union have launched a new organisation, Unite Fight Back, to help build networks of solidarity at the base of the union.
Unite members have voted to retain the union’s political fund. Of those voting, 87.4 percent wanted to keep the fund. The turnout was 18.6 percent of the union’s 1.3 million members.
The Manchester People’s Assembly drew over 700 people in the biggest rally against austerity seen in the city. It is part of the build up to the national People’s Assembly in London on 22 June.
Around 200 workers in the Unison and Unite unions from South Gloucestershire council protested last week against attacks on their conditions.
About 1,000 joined Birmingham’s LGBT Pride parade, watched by a crowd of about 70,000.
Workers at the Molson Coors brewery in Burton-on-Trent are expected to vote for strikes this week.
Bosses of 2 Sisters Food Group have begun consultation to close the five West Midlands sites where more than 1,200 workers struck in December of last year. It was a solid action with hundreds on picket lines.
Over 60 people met to launch Unite the Resistance in South London on Thursday of last week.
Around 260 delegates attended last week’s TUC disabled workers’ conference.
The Tories and the media refuse to accept any connection between imperialist attacks and the killing in Woolwich. Their pandering to Islamophobia has given confidence to racists and fascists. We must urgently oppose it.
Trade unionists, socialists, and anti-racists were out campaigning against racism in Woolwich, south east London, last Saturday.
