Anger at single status deal in Angus Council workers in Angus in Scotland have been hit by a new single status pay deal which has seen wage packets cut by up to £1,000.
Further education lecturers in the EIS union at Edinburgh’s Telford College have begun a series of twice weekly strikes to stop the introduction of agency labour.
Delegates representing some 100 UCU union branches in further education colleges across England voted at a special conference last Saturday to ballot over pay.
A march in north London, against gun and knife crime is set to take place this Sunday. The march has been organised by Communities Against Gun and Knife Crime – an organisation that aims to target the reasons behind crime and campaign for better resources for young people.
The famous architect Richard Rogers wrote in July 2005, when the Olympics were awarded to London, that "the Barcelona standard is what we have to achieve".
"This has been a bad couple of days for Gordon Brown," quipped a pensioner as he stepped out down Whitehall from Trafalgar Square.
The rally in Trafalgar Square got off to a rousing start when Stop the War’s chair, Andrew Murray, told the crowd that police had caved in and allowed the march to proceed.
Campaigners from across Britain shared a feeling of achievement that the movement had beaten the ban and that they had got the anti-war message across.
The British Government tried to ban this demonstration using a Victorian law. They were finally forced to allow the march to take place. Police tried to limit the number of protesters in Parliament Square but were forced to allow the march to proceed.
The Darzi report into the future of the NHS published last week restated the government’s commitment to the privatisation of the health service.
With just an hour to go the metropolitan police told organisers of today’s Not One More Death protest that it would not be banned from marching to parliament.
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