Free Palestine Exeter Palestine Solidarity Campaign recently hosted the visit of a dance and drama group from Balata Camp from Nablus on the West Bank. Some 250 people crowded into the hall to see A’edoon, a powerful drama of the experience of expulsion and life in occupied Palestine. They have been touring across Britain.
Brighton Over 100 peace campaigners from around Sussex assembled at the Peace Statue on Hove Lawns for a march through Brighton called by Sussex Action for Peace on Saturday of last week.
Some 9,000 members of the PCS civil service workers’ union in the department for work and pensions (DWP) are set to be balloted from Monday 5 September to take strike action over job cuts.
Northampton Management has launched an attack on seven CWU union members, four of them reps, in the wake of the recent strike.
The home office is getting ready to start deporting people against their will to Erbil in northern Iraq. It hopes to start quietly over the bank holiday weekend.
Firefighters in Suffolk took three bouts of strike action on Friday, Saturday and Sunday of last week in their campaign against 12 job losses.
Tenants scored a major victory in Sefton, Merseyside, last week when they voted to reject plans to privatise their council houses.
Workers at Aberdeen City Council have been told that many of them face pay cuts as part of the implementation of a single status agreement which claims to harmonise conditions between manual and white collar workers.
I did a collection round the housing office where I work in Camden council. Before I went round I e-mailed all the union members with information about the dispute and said I would be doing a collection.
Journalists at Coventry Newspapers suspended their all-out strike against low pay on Wednesday of last week. The NUJ union members returned to work after management agreed a statement with the union.
NUJ union members at BBC News 24 have won their fight with management over the non-payment of an Extra Responsibility Reward (ERR) for journalists who regularly act-up above their grade.
Around 250 workers blocked a road on the Shropshire border in the West Midlands last week in protest at their pay and conditions. Their action has given a glimpse of the way young people from Eastern Europe are brought in to harvest the crops which then appear in Britain’s supermarkets.
