Engineering firm Balfour Beatty received a £10 million fine for its part in the Hatfield rail disaster on Thursday of last week.
Over 1,000 people marched through Glasgow last Saturday demanding an end to the detention and deportation of asylum seekers. The Vucaj family from Kosovo were snatched and deported on Thursday of last week. The march was led by Scottish and refugee school students. There were banners from the Fire Brigades Union, the T&G union, the teachers’ EIS union and the Amicus union. MSPs spoke at the rally.
We are seeing the latest phase in a 25-year programme of privatising public assets and services. Healthcare is harder than other services to privatise, for two reasons. First the NHS is very efficient.
‘People who work in the NHS have a pride in what they do — it’s special.
Members of the Unison union in Sefton council on Merseyside were set to start an escalating programme of selective industrial action on Wednesday of this week.
Council workers in Sunderland council are set to be balloted over a pay review that would lead to wage cuts for at least 2,700 staff. The Unison and GMB unions are recommending that members reject the deal.
Suffolk firefighters have won significant gains after their recent strikes.
Staff at a Plymouth call centre have organised protests after 400 were sacked without warning by Market Reach, a US telemarketing company.
Brent acadamy Protesters dressed as elephants in Brent, north west London, on Thursday of last week, arguing that plans for a new privately run academy school will create a "white elephant". A conference against academies is set to take place this Saturday 8 October in Birmingham. For details phone 0121 442 2031 or e-mail [email protected]
Around 500 people gathered in Bolton last Saturday for the first national demonstration against Section 9, and against all deportations, called by the Sukula Family Must Stay campaign.
A meeting was set to take place on Tuesday of this week in support of Courage Idiagbonya, a student who is being prevented from completing his studies by Newcastle university.
PCS Union members in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) have voted for strike action, and for action short of a strike, in a ballot over pay.
