Around 70 people attended a fringe meeting of Respect’s Left List at NUT conference on Easter Monday. Victimised trade unionist Karen Reissmann, Dave Harvey from the NUT executive (in personal capacity) and Michael Lavalette, Respect councillor in Preston, addressed the meeting.
Around 100 people attended a fringe meeting on the Friday evening of conference on pay, politics and trade unionism, organised by the Socialist Teachers Alliance.
Councillor Oliur Rahman, Left List Candidate for the GLA elections, interviewed at the World Against War demonstration in central London on Saturday 15 March 2008.
The 40,000-strong London demonstration began with a rally that filled Trafalgar Square.
Over 80,000 civil service workers in the PCS union struck a blow against Gordon Brown’s public sector pay freeze when they took strike action on Monday and Tuesday of this week.
In many parts of the country, workers saw their strike as being about defending public services as well as being over pay. Shepherd’s Bush job centre in west London is one of the offices marked for closure.
1 April 2018 is the 60th anniversary of the protest march to Aldermaston, Britain's bomb factory
Mobilise for abortion rights Abortion Rights has called a national lobby of parliament for Wednesday 7 May, from 3-6pm. This will be followed by a public meeting.
Lecturers in further education colleges in the UCU union received ballot papers this week for a strike over pay and conditions. Our claim this year is for 6 percent or £1,500.
The annual conference of the NUT teachers’ union over this Easter weekend will be dominated by a discussion about how to take forward the union’s pay campaign.
A major battle is set for London Underground after talks between management and the unions collapsed last week.
