Just two days before the anniversary of her daughter’s death in Styal Prison in 2003 Pauline Campbell was at HMP Holloway to demonstrate over yet another self-inflicted death inside its walls.
Disabled workers for Remploy on Merseyside are being balloted for industrial action over the closure of their factories with the results expected at the end of next week.
The campaign against the British National Party (BNP) received a boost last week when two major unions pledged substantial sums to the Love Music Hate Racism (LMHR) carnival set for Victoria Park in east London on Sunday 27 April.
Lecturers in the UCU union in higher education (HE) are to be balloted from Friday of this week on whether to accept a deal on national pay negotiations. This would implement single-table bargaining, allowing all unions within HE to bargain collectively with the employers, which the left is in favour of.
The campaign against the victimisation of leading health trade unionist Yunus Bakhsh received a boost this week.
Workers in the RMT union on London Underground are heading towards a number of disputes. One of them is over management’s plans to close a number of ticket offices and on issues that have arisen from the transfer of Silverlink services to London Overground.
The London region of the UCU lecturers’ union has called a demonstration in protest at government changes to higher education funding, which were announced without consultation last September.
Street wardens in Waltham Forest, east London, struck for half a day on Wednesday of last week in a dispute over unsocial hours payments.
Thousands of council workers in Birmingham are balloting for strike action against the imposition of their single status pay deal.
Hundreds of workers at Argyll and Bute council are striking and working to rule over their single status pay deal.
There was a rare display of class resentment on TV last week with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s Chicken Run series on Channel 4.
