Some 200 workers at the Appledore shipyard in north Devon struck on Friday of last week and Monday of this week over pay.
The Media Workers Against the War group has organised an important half-day conference titled Under Siege: Islam, War And The Media in central London this Saturday.
Details of a deal between management at British Telecom and the CWU union over the future of the company’s pension scheme were emerging as Socialist Worker went to press.
Workers at the Dover Harbour Board are set to demonstrate this Saturday and to strike next Tuesday to demand that their jobs are not outsourced.
Two Unite union bus reps are calling on other trade unionists and bus workers to support them when they appear in Westminster magistrates’ court in December. The case relates to an incident that took place after the demonstration that launched the London bus workers’ campaign.
The UCU union held a special pay conference last Saturday for lecturers and researchers in universities. Delegates voted overwhelmingly to prepare for a major pay battle in 2009.
Around 100 people came to a Love Music Hate Racism (LMHR) gig in Stafford on Friday of last week organised by community website » StaffordForum.com.
Around 500 people attended the fifth annual Historical Materialism conference in central London last weekend.
The national executive of the PCS civil service workers’ union last week voted to suspend a strike by 270,000 members over pay, which was due to take place on Monday.
The public sector pay fight suffered a serious setback last week when the NUT teachers’ union decided not to call further strikes over pay. This was good news for the government and employers.
If you’ve got money maybe you can buy some extra life. If you haven’t you’re only worth what the NHS can afford. That will be the effect of the government’s decision last week to allow cancer patients to pay for extra drugs without forfeiting NHS treatment.
Around 200 people protested in Manchester last Saturday against the killing in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the deportation of Congolese asylum seekers.
