Thousands of people in four London boroughs had their housing benefit cut from Monday of this week to fit under the Tories’ new cap.
Ten million people lose part of their council tax benefits in the same week as the cap comes in. This will also hit London hardest due to higher housing costs.
Residents’ protests are demanding that their landlords—whether housing associations or local authorities—stand with them against the bedroom tax.
The ministers behind the bedroom tax are millionaires with spare mansions. The UK Uncut group organised protests on their doorsteps last Saturday.
Thousands of Home Office workers began a week of action against government attacks on their pay, pensions and working conditions on Tuesday of this week.
People are taking to the streets across Britain to fight attacks on their benefits
Tenants, trade unionists and others are organising to fight the Tories’ bedroom tax across Britain.
Around 200 workers in the GMB and Unite unions struck for two days at the Union Electric (Davy Roll) factory in Gateshead last week. After five years without a pay rise in a profitable company shop floor
Biomedical scientists at the Royal Preston and Chorley hospitals have voted by 96 percent to strike against pay cuts of up to £6,000 a year.
The Unite union’s Health National Industrial Sector Committee has voted overwhelmingly for action on 26 June.
Health workers and activists are coming to London on 18 May to join the Defend the NHS march called by London Save NHS and Keep Our NHS Public campaigns.
Private health care provider Care Plus is trying to tear up the NHS Agenda for Change pay and conditions in the services it runs in north east Lincolnshire.
