The Unison union is asking its branches to consult members on the next steps in the fight to defend the local government pensions scheme (LGPS). But the consultation is very narrow.
At the council elections in Birmingham the elections office miscounted the votes in the Kingstanding ward and declared the BNP candidate Sharon Ebanks to have won. This makes her the official councillor until the courts reverse the count and declare the Labour Party candidate the winner.
Thousands of of people turned out for the Pride parade in Birmingham this Sunday. The parade got a very good response as it passed through the city centre. Respect members gave out leaflets calling for equality and peace which were well received.
Alan McCombes, the Scottish Socialist Party’s policy coordinator, was jailed today for refusing to hand confidential documents to the court of session in Edinburgh. The judge jailed McCombes until 6 June to reconsider his position, saying that the court’s instructions should take precendence over his loyalty to the SSP. She also granted a warrant to search any neccessary properties to find the documents. It is regrettable that this has been allowed to happen in a crucial year for the SSP who are atttempting to rebuild support in the run up to the Scottish elections in 2007. The court is seeking the documents in relation to Tommy Sheridan’s ongoing libel action against the News of the Worl
Newly elected Respect councillor Salma Yaqoob spoke to an audience of around 300 people last Saturday who had gathered in Burford, Oxfordshire, to commemorate Levellers Day.
Car workers in Merseyside and the West Midlands are furious at Labour’s response to the closure of the Peugeot plant in Ryton, near Coventry, and the announcement of 1,000 job losses at the Vauxhall plant in Ellesmere Port.
Firefighters struck solidly across Hertfordshire for eight hours last Saturday. They were opposing plans to shut down two fire stations in the county and cut up to 40 frontline jobs.
Local government workers should flood their union leaders with protests over the latest proposals to end the confrontation over pensions.
Tens of thousands of rail workers in the RMT and TSSA unions are balloting for strike action over pensions.
Members of the National Union of Teachers (NUT) were amazed to find a ballot form dropping through their letter-boxes last weekend.
Britain is currently facing a flood of scare stories about immigration. These come not just from the Tory frontbench and the right wing "newspapers", but also from supposedly "serious" news programmes such as the BBC’s Newsnight.
Making a meal of the next step Over 200 Respect supporters attended a thank you meal in Newham, east London. Respect won three councillors in the borough in the local elections.
