Workers in the UCU and ATL unions at Barnet College, north London, may take industrial action if their management try to impose new contracts on them.
The vibrant campaign to save jobs at Tower Hamlets College, east London, continued last week with a demonstration on Thursday.
Around 200 workers, students, and local trade unionists demonstrated in Barnsley last Saturday against proposed redundancies at Barnsley college.
Twenty local young people attended a workshop on fighting the fascist British National Party (BNP) in Newham, east London, on Tuesday of last week.
Activists in the CWU union are accusing bosses at Carphone Warehouse’s repair centre in Wednesbury in the West Midlands of attempts at union-busting after the company upheld the sacking of union rep Sulinder Kumar.
A growing mood for national strike action in the post can be seen by the number of CWU union branches that have requested strike ballots in recent weeks.
Wakefield and District NUT union and the NAHT headteachers’ organisation held a public meeting to launch their campaign against the hated Sats tests last week.
Teachers in the NUT and NASUWT unions in Tamworth, Staffordshire, continued their campaign against a proposed academy in the town with strikes and a mass lobby of a council meeting last week.
Members of the NUT teachers’ union at Prestwich Arts College in Bury have voted for industrial action.
Last Friday was just like any other June day in Barrow – it had been raining and there were angry clouds in the sky threatening more.
Anti-academies campaigners in Newham, east London, have won a major victory after the local council confirmed that a planned academy, to be sponsored by Ark, will not be going ahead.
Striking postal workers in London and Edinburgh hit back last week at bullying Royal Mail managers and their attempts to undermine the CWU union by ramming through "cost saving" measures.
