Christine Blower, general secretary of the NUT teachers’ union, last week warned that the whole education system could be privatised by 2015.
Teachers across Nottingham struck on Thursday of last week against council plans to change the term structure. The strike affected around 60 schools.
"I don’t have vision, just beliefs," education secretary Michael Gove told a recent headteachers’ conference.
Members of the PCS union in job centres across the Mersey district staged their second walkout in less than a month on Friday of last week.
Some 15 network operation centre workers have voted for strikes after being excluded from the BBC’s final pension scheme.
Traffic wardens in Ealing, west London, have stepped up their strikes by calling a two‑week walkout.
Refuse workers in Sheffield could strike over pay.
28 March London pensions strike: schools and colleges shut down
The level of support and solidarity from trade unionists around Britain shows that workers are willing to take on the Tories.
Activists across public sector unions are fighting for coordinated national strikes against the Tories. Workers keep on voting overwhelmingly for more strikes.
Greggs boss Ken McMeikan has been leading the opposition to the government’s pasty tax. He appeared with Sun journalists and page three models on Friday to open a new store and promote the Murdoch paper’s petition.
The trial of Alfie Meadows and four other student protesters continued at Kingston Crown Court this week.
