The events of the past week could seriously derail the pensions fight.
Teachers in the NUT union in London were set to strike on Wednesday of next week as Socialist Worker went to press, along with lecturers in the UCU union.
Teachers at Downhills primary school in Haringey, north London, will hold an indicative strike ballot over plans to force academy status on the school.
Police have been eating too many doughnuts. That seems to be the conclusion of the Windsor review into police pay and recruitment.
David Cameron and George Osborne like to tell us that Britain is short of cash.
The government has frozen the minimum wage for 16 to 20 year olds.
Firefighters in Blackburn, Lancashire, had to travel 50 yards to put out a blaze last week—in their new fire station.
The hugely unpopular Health and Social Care Bill is a deeply regressive piece of legislation. It will unleash one of the biggest social injustices ever visited on NHS users and workers.
Protesters held vigils outside more than 20 hospitals on Monday of this week. They were marking the clearing of Andrew Lansley’s Health and Social Care Bill in the House of Lords.
Occupation at Oxfordshire trust NHS workers, supporters and activists occupied the headquarters of Oxfordshire Primary Care Trust on Friday of last week.
More than 600 public sector jobs have disappeared every single day since the Tories came to office in 2010.
A planned national strike on 28 March will not go ahead after the leaderships of the unions involved voted to either call it off or limit the action to London.
