Activists, staff and service users lobbied to defend a vital alcohol and drug dependency service in south London. The protest at Marina House in Camberwell last Wednesday was small but well received.
The Pell and Bales section of the CWU held its AGM on Saturday of last week.
Ballot papers will go out next week for elections to the service group executive of the Unison union. Socialist Worker is backing these left candidates in the election:
Around 30 people demonstrated outside beauty products shop Ahava in London’s Covent Garden last Saturday. They called for it to be boycotted in support of the Palestinian struggle.
Five hundred and fifty Scotrail workers struck over four days this week against management’s plan to remove guards from trains.
Three hundred sacked Jarvis workers marched through Doncaster on Friday of last week chanting, "Work not dole" and, "Our jobs have been stolen".
Talks between the RMT transport union and Network Rail resumed this week at the Acas conciliation service. This comes after the RMT, along with the TSSA union, called off four days of strikes at the company after a court ruling against a strike ballot.
Post workers have begun a ballot over a proposed deal to end the long-running dispute between their CWU union and Royal Mail.
This year’s National Union of Students (NUS) conference takes place against a backdrop of huge cuts in higher education—but of revolt and struggle too.
The party is fielding a record number of candidates.
Campaigners were out on the streets of Barking, east London, last Sunday to wreck Nazi BNP leader Nick Griffin’s chances of getting elected.
New official statistics show that 63 percent of private sector workers will not receive a work-based pension scheme.
