Sheffield Cutlers Hall Around 40 student nurses, health workers and patients gathered outside Sheffield’s Cutlers Hall on Thursday last week to protest against Virgin Healthcare’s attempt to make profits from the NHS.
Voting began in the elections for the national executive of the Unite union this week. The new executive will have 80 seats – 40 from the former Amicus union and 40 from the former T&G union.
Over 50 signallers, members of the RMT union, in the Lincoln area were set to launch their second strike on Tuesday of this week over Network Rail’s failure to honour an agreement covering displaced staff.
Talks were taking place as Socialist Worker went to press between the RMT and TSSA rail workers’ unions, and London Underground managers over issues arising from the current dispute on the tube.
Bus workers at Metroline in north and north west London were set to meet on Thursday to discuss the Unite union’s new campaign for a London wage for all bus workers.
Over 200 people from different unions and campaigns came together to lobby Waltham Forest council on Thursday of last week.
A sustained and determined campaign has forced Fife council to put on hold planned charges for homecare and other services for disabled people.
Several workers at Preston city council walked out unofficially on Thursday of last week after being told that the single status review will leave a third of the workforce facing pay cuts.
Over 40 Unison union members again turned out in force on Thursday of last week to lobby Ashfield council in Nottinghamshire over job and service cuts that will result from the council’s new budget.
Over the last ten years or so, the government has brought a regime into schools that has battened down on teachers to teach reading and writing in a way that bores teachers and bores kids.
This week saw the launch of the "Our Schools, Our Colleges, Our Communities" campaign in London, organised by the UCU and NUT unions to fight back against the free market agenda in education.
Teachers in the NUT union across England and Wales are building for a yes vote in a ballot over whether to take strike action over pay.
