Janet Alder’s civil case against police officers involved in the death of her brother Christopher has been adjourned until December, following a short hearing in London last week. A similar case brought by Christopher’s two sons has also been put back to that date.
Troubled academy votes for action Members of the NASUWT teachers’ union at Unity City Academy in Middlesbrough have voted overwhelmingly for industrial action to protect their conditions of service.
A sharp political debate has broken out inside the postal and telecom workers’ CWU union about the Labour Party.
WORKERS AT Sefton council on Merseyside have voted to ballot for industrial action over the victimisation of two union officials and four shop stewards for opposing privatisation of council housing.
Single status Three refuse collectors in Coventry have been arrested following alleged incidents on picket lines during the recent strikes
The results of Unison’s national executive council (NEC) elections were disappointing for the left.
Toll collectors at the Erskine Bridge, west Scotland, struck for the second time last week over pay.
Members of the PCS civil service workers’ union were meeting at our annual conference in Brighton this week.
Dockers in the T&G union at Associated British Ports (ABP) are balloting for strike action in their long running pay dispute.
Nearly 100 people, mostly those fighting deportation campaigns, attended the annual meeting of the National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns in Manchester on Saturday of last week.
Two hundred students at Cardinal Wiseman High School, west London, walked around their local shopping area in Greenford before half term with placards and banners in support of the Make Poverty History campaign.
Alys Elica Zaerin is a student at Alexandra Park school in north London and the convenor of School Students Against the War. She says:
