Teachers at City secondary school in Sheffield, south Yorkshire, are to ballot for strikes against a compulsory redundancy.
A terrible deal is on the table at British Airways (BA)—and the Unite union is backing it.
Two Coventry schools struck against academies on Friday of last week. Some 70 teachers in the NUT and NASUWT unions were involved in the strike at Tile Hill Wood School – a huge majority – with a further 30 NUT members striking at Woodlands School.
Activists debated whether nuclear power has any place in the fight against climate change at a meeting organised by the Campaign Against Climate Change last week.
Thursday 30 June is set to be the next major day of resistance to the Tories’ plans to punish ordinary working people for the failures of their banker buddies.
Anne Lemon, NUT executive member for North Somerset, spoke to Socialist Worker about building the strike ballot:
More than 200 trade unionists attended a Socialist Workers Party (SWP) meeting in London last Sunday to discuss the importance of the planned strikes.
Strikes save jobs. That’s the message from teachers at Rawmarsh Community School in Rotherham, south Yorkshire.
The NUT plans to ballot members at Forest Hill school in Lewisham, south London, over a planned compulsory redundancy.
Teachers in four schools struck against academies last week.
Delegates were gathering for the annual conference of the FBU firefighters’ union as Socialist Worker went to press.
Refuse workers at Southampton council were set to walk out on indefinite strike from Monday of next week.
