Activists are organising to oppose the EDL’s plans for a summer of race hatred.
Delegates at Unison’s local government conference in Manchester voted last Sunday to back a campaign of strikes to defend their pensions.
Conference debated what the union’s attitude should be to Labour councils that vote through cuts.
Doncaster Unison branch secretary Jim Board got a roar of applause as he told conference delegates that council workers there plan to join united strikes on 30 June.
The government has gone on an all out attack on the unions whose members have voted to strike on 30 June.
If your workplace is due to strike, hold meetings to mobilise for the action, argue with every member about why they should back the strike and organise to make the picket lines and protests big on the day.
Union reps across the country are laying the ground for the biggest possible strike next week.
Most workers didn’t vote for strikes. If workers strike, it won’t have a democratic mandate.
Tory cabinet minister Francis Maude is leading the charge against public sector workers. He says they get good wages, lots of holidays and "gold‑plated" pensions.
London Underground drivers struck in defence of victimised union rep Arwyn Thomas last Sunday, and they are prepared to take more action next week.
Hundreds of council workers in Southampton will join the united strikes on 30 June—as part of a week of walkouts.
The looming showdown on public sector pensions dominated last week’s one-day conference of the Prospect union’s civil service sector.
