The employers have cancelled talks with the AUT and Natfhe lecturers’ unions that were due to take place on Tuesday of this week. Lecturers across the country are currently taking part in an exam and marking boycott over pay.
Some 400 workers at International Paper in Inverurie, Scotland, struck on Thursday of last week in their dispute over pay.
Battles over jobs, pensions and reporting the Iraq crisis dominated the NUJ journalists’ union conference at Liverpool last weekend.
Journalists in the NUJ union at the The Independent and Independent On Sunday chapels have voted overwhelmingly in favour of accepting a much improved offer from management on pay and conditions.
Free Djillali Campaigners in Norwich are fighting against the deportation of Djillali Salemkour, who has lived in Britain for 13 years. Djillali was born in Paris to Algerian parents. He cared for his wife, Doreen, prior to her death. After her death his right to remain in Britain was challenged. For more information e-mail [email protected]
On the evening of 10 November 1919, the council chamber in Poplar Town Hall, east London, was packed. Labour activists and supporters had come to see the installation of Poplar’s first Labour mayor, and witness the Labour group assert its control over the council’s various committees.
The government’s attack on pensions and the response from union members have already had an extraordinary political impact.
Tuesday’s strike was a very welcome return of solidarity and secondary action.
BA scheme is under attack It's not just in the public sector that bitter battles are taking place.
Up to one and a half million workers struck in Britain. Three million workers, students and young unemployed demonstrated in 150 towns and cities across France.
It was the day the British working class reminded everyone of its power.
In the east London borough of Newham, "over 400 people picketed, mainly people who were involved in the strike but also firefighters and people from the university who came to support us," reports council worker Elane Heffernan. "The day before the strike 40 people joined the union to be part of the action.
