Around 500 refuse workers in the east London borough of Newham walked out spontaneously and unofficially on Thursday of last week over attempts to cut their pay.
Around 300 people rallied in Glasgow’s George Square last Saturday to unite against Islamophobia and protest at the wave of racist attacks on Muslims since Jack Straw’s comments about the veil earlier this month.
A revolt by members of the NUJ journalists’ union at the Daily Star forced management to scrap an anti-Muslim page last week. Workers organised to strike a blow against the Islamophobia that has filled the right wing tabloids over the last few weeks.
The Lost Communities of Industrial Teesside This picture of children on a slag tip in Teesside in 1973 is part of an exhibition, The Lost Communities of Industrial Teesside, by photographer Derek Smith. The exhibition runs till 30 November at Chat’s Palace, 42-44 Brooksby’s Walk, Hackney, east London, E9. Nearest train station is Homerton. For more information go to www.chatspalace.com
Members of the PCS civil service workers’ union at the National Gallery in central London struck on Wednesday of last week.
Hackney Over 70 people attended a meeting called by Hackney trades council and Leabridge Labour Party on Wednesday of last week to hear left Labour MP John McDonnell appeal for support in his bid to become the next leader of the Labour Party.
Students at the University of the West of England (UWE) in Bristol have voted by 89 percent to continue being part of the National Union of Students (NUS).
Firefighters have won an important legal victory over attempts by their employers to force them to take on certain emergency paramedic roles as part of their normal duties.
More postal workers are to start strike ballots over cuts and attacks on full-time jobs.
Saturday 4 November is the global day of action against climate change.
Refuse workers, street cleaners and cemetery workers in Warrington, struck on Wednesday of last week.
At a packed emergency mass meeting organised by the GMB and Unison unions last week, 380 home carers agreed unanimously to go on strike if jobs are lost as part of a social services shake-up.
