On Saturday last week more than 60 people joined a demonstration called by health unions in Barnsley to protest against attacks on the NHS.
Protesters camping to stop the building of temporary basketball courts for the Olympics have been evicted.
This year’s NUT union conference was watched closely from across the working class movement, as teachers backed more strikes to stop the Tories’ assault on pensions.
Delegates rejected the idea that Ofsted was an impartial inspection system aimed at improving teaching. Many saw it as a tool to force through privatisation.
We had a good team out for the bank holiday Monday, even though it was chucking down with rain. We were up at 7am—you have to be if you’re going to get into the flats.
The racism scandal sweeping the police has smashed the notion that bullying and bigotry are confined to a small number of rogue officers.
Some teachers wanted the union to launch a more urgent fight to stop academies. Annette Pryce said, "If you blink, you’ll miss an academy conversion. It’s time to get out the big guns—it’s time to fight."
No to tests for five year olds Teachers passed a motion opposing the use of phonics reading testing—which would be carried out on children as young as five.
Health workers in the Unite union will strike over pensions on 10 May—and teachers in the NUT are set to strike in June.
Teachers at the NUT union’s conference voted to organise another national strike over pensions in June.
The Unite union has called for another national strike over pensions in the NHS.
Teachers at the NUT union's conference have voted to seek to organise another national strike over pensions in June.
