Socialism 2005 The Scottish Socialist Party’s Socialism 2005 got off to a rousing start on Friday of last week with Colin Fox, George Galloway and Gill Hubbard addressing the opening rally. Over 400 people, many young, attended the weekend of discussion. There was lots of enthusiasm for the anti-war movement. There was also a lot of interest in the meetings on Latin America.
Steel erectors at Heathrow Terminal 5 were continuing their fight for a pay rise this week.
Tower Hamlets Respect for Youth will be holding its launch meeting in the east London borough on Sunday 23 October.
London Underground’s biggest union has demanded double-crewing of all Northern Line trains and daily safety checks after the emergency braking system failed for the fourth time in as many weeks.
‘A memorial was being held in Islington, north London, for the 11 people from the borough who were killed in the London bombings.
Tower Hamlets council in east London is attempting to sack a parking attendant and union rep who was hospitalised after being run over by a driver trying to avoid a ticket.
Members of the communications team at Tower Hamlets council are being balloted in the coming week by both the National Union of Journalists and the Unison union over the council’s treatment of Unison shop steward and Defend Council Housing campaigner Eileen Short.
Some 300 drivers for First Bus in north Staffordshire and south Cheshire, based in Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme, took 24 hour strike action on Friday of last week over pay.
Drivers for First Bus in Edinburgh rejected an offer of £8 an hour by a vote of 61 percent last week.
Energy unions have vowed to do "all in their power" to avoid compulsory redundancies after Scottish Power’s announcement of 450 job losses.
On Thursday of last week, over 230 students at De Montfort University, Leicester, poured into the college’s largest lecture theatre to hear Respect MP George Galloway.
Escalating selective action by workers at Sefton council on Merseyside is set to ratchet up another notch this week. Some 18 workers in the education personnel department are to join 17 in the creditors department already on strike against the victimisation of union activists.
