There will be a second protest this Saturday against the National Theatre’s play England People Very Nice, which presents a series of crude and racist caricatures of ethnic minorities in London’s East End.
Around 100 train conductors at London Midland depots in Bletchley, Watford and Northampton struck on Friday of last week and Monday of this week in a row over Sunday working.
Workers in the CWU union at the emergency services telecoms network company, Airwave, struck on Friday of last week and Monday of this week.
Hundreds of abattoir workers in Anglesey and Flintshire will take industrial action over plans to impose 21 redundancies.
Head sparks ballot at academy Teachers in Walthamstow Academy, which is run by the United Learning Trust, are balloting for industrial action over alleged bullying by the head teacher.
The result of the TSSA union’s ballot of its 7,000 members at Network Rail to defend the Railway Pension Scheme was disappointing.
The results of industrial action ballots involving thousands of workers at different rail companies across the country were set to be announced as Socialist Worker went to press. Yes votes could mean co-ordinated and hardhitting action that would bring rail services to a halt.
Around 700 students and workers joined a demonstration on Wednesday of last week against proposals to close up to eight departments at the University of Liverpool.
Management at London Metropolitan University last week presented stunned union reps with a detailed list of all university departments and jobs they wanted to cut.
The scandal of the construction blacklist is outraging workers across the industry.
The threat of strike action by construction workers last week forced a subcontractor to increase the wages of the Polish workers it employs on one of its sites.
