The neoliberal European Lisbon Treaty has been thrown out by the Irish voters as counting continues.
The Raytheon 9 have been found not guilty of all charges of criminal damage in a unanimous verdict.
Socialist Worker is calling on anti-war activists to defy a police ban on the George Bush Not Welcome Here demonstration.
The NUT union held a very political young teachers’ conference last weekend. Around 130 teachers came – up from 80 last year. Many of the young and newly qualified teachers at the conference got involved in the union after the strike on 24 April.
Amount of money spent on agency and temporary workers in the 2006/7 financial year by council:
Labour must shape up, or we’re shipping out. That was the message from delegates in the discussion on the fight to defend pensions, public services and offices threatened with closure.
Museum strike over treatment Over 200 workers in the Prospect civil service workers’ union at the Museum of London struck on Monday of this week against their below-inflation pay award of 2 percent.
Delegates to the EIS Scottish teachers’ union conference in Dundee last week voted unanimously to hold a ballot on industrial action to protest against cutbacks in education. Teachers have not struck in Scotland for 20 years.
Resistance to the government’s academy programmes for schools is growing in Bolton as NUT teachers’ union members at Withins School announced their intention to strike again on Wednesday of next week.
Members of the Unison union working for the NHS have voted, disappointingly, by 64 percent to accept a three year pay deal. This offers 2.75 percent, 2.4 percent and 2.2 percent for the next three years.
Some 7,000 further education lecturers in the UCU union in London took strike action on Monday of this week as part of their battle against a below-inflation pay offer.
CT Plus Bus drivers in the Unite union working for CT Plus in Hackney, east London, are set to strike on Friday afternoon of this week over the sacking of Dennis Shine, a union rep.
