Employers have offered Further Education (FE) lecturers 2 percent in August with a further 1 percent in February – an offer negotiators could not accept as they had been mandated not to accept any below inflation offer.
Almost 100 lecturers at Harlow college in Essex have been made redundant, or refused to re-apply for their jobs on contracts that would mean less pay and longer working hours.
A threat by Labour-controlled Glasgow city council to use anti-union laws halted industrial action by 600 social care workers.
Hundreds of protesters marched in Burnley last Saturday seeking answers to questions about the death of Nadeem Khan in police custody.
After ten years of campaigning Defend Council Housing (DCH) activists are eagerly awaiting the government’s first green paper on housing, which was due to be published this week.
The campaign to defend Karen Reissmann, the psychiatric nurse and Unison union activist who has been suspended from work, is continuing to gain support.
The pressure for a decent pay rise for more than a million workers in the NHS rose this week as Unison, the biggest health service union, announced it would ballot its members for action unless the government improved its paltry 2.5 percent pay offer.
The NUT teachers’ union national executive will be meeting on Wednesday of next week to discuss the timetable for action over pay.
The plight of hundreds of people who are being left to fend for themselves after the recent floods speaks volumes about the priorities of this government.
Respect is urging as many of its supporters as possible to get to west London this weekend to campaign for a left alternative in next Thursday’s Ealing Southall parliamentary by-election.
