Lecturers at the University of Sussex have voted overwhelmingly for strikes to save jobs. The UCU union members’ ballot won the highest turnout ever seen at the university. Some 80.9 percent voted in the ballot with 76 percent backing strikes.
Anti fascist activists are leafleting football matches across Britain as part of the campaign against the Nazi British National Party (BNP) in the run up to the general election.
Around 5,000 protesters took to the streets of Islington, north London, last Saturday to defend key services under threat at Whittington hospital.
Around 350 university and college students and teachers came together last Saturday for the Take Back Education teach-in at King’s College in London.
The threat to privatise community health services in Tower Hamlets, east London, has been stopped by union opposition.
Local councils are planning to slash up to 170,000 public sector jobs.
Elections for national officers of the lecturers’ UCU union and its national executive committee (NEC) will end on Friday of this week.
The shutdown of the Corus plant in Redcar, Teesside, may have started, but there is still a mood to resist among steel workers.
The latest focal point in the battle over jobs on construction sites is the Alstom power station site in Pembroke, South Wales.
Further education lecturers in a dozen London colleges have demanded that management guarantee no compulsory redundancies.
Around 80 percent of Fujitsu workers have voted to accept the latest offer from management. This follows ten strike days by Unite members.
Anti-academies campaigners are set to protest at a conference organised by the Tory magazine, the Spectator.
