Over 200 people attended a conference against academies organised by South Eastern Region of the TUC and the Anti Academies Alliance, on Saturday of last week.
Lecturers in further education in the UCU union will begin balloting this week over whether to take strike action against their below-inflation pay offer.
London branches of the National Union of Teachers (NUT) have organised a demonstration and rally in London on 24 April.
Around 130 postal workers from Liverpool attended a meeting on Sunday of last week to discuss the future of the city’s Copperas Hill mail centre.
Around 450 workers at housing charity Shelter struck on Wednesday of last week and Monday of this week – in the first strikes in the 41 years of the organisation’s existence.
After months of false promises from the Labour government, Remploy factories for disabled workers are closing around the country.
Leading Unison union activists Karen Reissmann and Yunus Bakhsh have appealed against the decision to bar them from re-standing for the union’s health executive.
London Underground management is taking a hard line in talks with the RMT and TSSA rail workers’ unions over a number of issues.
Among the many events staged to mark International Women’s Day last week was the Capital Woman conference in London. The highlight of the event was a speech by the black revolutionary Angela Davis.
Protest just what doctor ordered Respect’s Left List has helped launch a campaign to stop the takeover of three GP practices in north London by US multinational United Health.
Negotiations between unions and Birmingham council bosses over the imposition of a single status pay deal were continuing as Socialist Worker went to press.
Neoliberalism and the embracing of the free market were not introduced in the US and Britain by accident or as a result only of the much vaunted hidden hand of the market. They had to be argued for, written about, and put into place by concrete actions.
