Crofton School About 50 teachers joined the picket line outside Crofton School in Lewisham, south east London, last week as they struck for a day over pay cuts. The cuts are a result of the implementation of new allowance payments for teachers, which means some face the loss of thousands of pounds a year. Strikers then travelled to Woolwich to join a protest outside the town hall against New Labour’s education White Paper. BBC Radio strike is called off Media unions at the BBC have called off strikes at BBC Radio after a new offer from management over changes to job descriptions.
Tube drivers in both the RMT and Aslef unions have voted by six to one for strikes over a range of attacks by management.
Dinner ladies who work for catering contractors Scholarest and Caterhouse in Hackney, east London, are being underpaid.
Campaigning by the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) in a council by-election in Milton, Glasgow, has been lively.
Liverpool City Council is planning a massive privatisation drive covering all of its 18,000 council houses. The Liberal Democrat controlled council wants to transfer ownership and management of its housing to a mutual company.
Cleaners at the Houses of Parliament have won their campaign for a living wage of £6.70 an hour, sick pay and 28 days holidays. The cleaners held two one-day strikes – the first strikes ever seen at the Houses of Parliament.
More than 250 council workers, members of the Unison union, picketed Stroud district council, Gloucestershire, on Wednesday of last week for their second one-day strike in a dispute over pay and conditions.
Some 300 youth workers, including delegations from Liverpool and Birmingham as well as local supporters, marched through Northampton town centre on Saturday of last week fronted by the CYWU union banner.
Construction workers working for Laing O’Rourke at the Heathrow Terminal 5 site have settled their bonus pay dispute after several rounds of strike action.
Some 50 campaigners attended a national coordinating meeting of Keep Our NHS Public (KONP) last Saturday.
Around 150 teachers, parents, local residents and school students attended a meeting against the government’s education White Paper in Hackney, east London on Wednesday of last week.
Representatives from most PCS civil service workers’ union branches in the Department for Work and Pension (DWP) met in Leeds last Saturday.
