Waltham Forest Unite Against Fascism (UAF) and Amnesty International held a Holocaust Memorial Day public meeting at Harmony Hall in Walthamstow last Sunday.
Workers employed by Initial at Whipps Cross Hospital in East London protested last week against an attack on Len Hockey, a porter and their joint Unison branch secretary.
Sixth form teachers in the NUT union have voted overwhelmingly for strikes in two ballots.
Scottish education union EIS will lobby other education unions to organise a joint strike as soon as possible.
Around 60 activists attended an organising conference of the UCU Left last Saturday. It came at a critical time for the union’s disputes over the TPS and USS pensions schemes.
More unions have called for strikes in March to defend public sector pensions.
The latest union membership figures show that unions grow when they fight back.
The NUT teachers’ union is pushing for a coordinated, national public sector strike in March over pensions.
Striking tanker drivers are in a buoyant mood as they prepare for more strikes on Thursday of this week after talks with management broke down.
The second wave of strikes to defend pensions at consumer giant Unilever concluded last weekend.
The result of the strike vote of electricians at Balfour Beatty is due this week. And protests are still spreading around Britain against attempts to force workers to sign new contracts.
Revenue and Customs (HMRC) workers struck on Tuesday against privatisation. Some 20,000 PCS union members took action.
