Well over 100,000 Tamils and their supporters marched through central London on Saturday to protest at the Sri Lankan government’s continuing attacks on Tamil areas.
Delegates at the National Union of Teachers (NUT) conference in Cardiff have voted unanimously for a boycott of the hated Sats tests next year – if the government refuses to abolish them.
Demonstration on Saturday 11 April 2009 demanding justice for Ian Tomlinson, who died after being hit by police during the anti-G20 demo on 1 April
A march has been called for Saturday 11 April to demand justice for Ian Tomlinson and an end to police violence.
Postal workers in Watford are demanding a strike ballot after Royal Mail managers suspended the CWU union’s safety rep Bob Kennedy in a dispute about unsafe working practices.
Over 170 workers came to a trade union rally organised by the UCU lecturers’ union in central London on Thursday of last week that aimed to kickstart a united fight to defend jobs.
Delegates to the NUT union’s annual conference this weekend will meet at a time of crisis that is impacting on their jobs, pay and pensions.
Battle lines were drawn at the National Union of Students (NUS) annual conference last week. Activists involved in the wave of student occupations over Gaza were refused support by the union, in a move that shows the ever-widening gap between the union structures and activists on the ground.
The UCU and Unison unions at London Metropolitan University are set to ballot for industrial action against planned job cuts.
Anti-academy campaigners won a victory this week when Northampton council postponed plans to transform the Unity College secondary school into an academy.
