Students met to discuss top-up fees, anti-racism and making poverty history at the NUS annual conference in Blackpool last week.
The global week of action for trade justice began last weekend with activities all over the country. Over 70 people in High Wycombe took part in social action and creative projects.
Oliur Rahman, Respect councillor and candidate in Tower Hamlets, east London, is taking up the case of four Traveller families who have been left without toilets for over a week.
Ali Zaidi, the Respect parliamentary candidate for Tooting, will be joining next Monday’s demonstration in support of Babar Ahmad, who faces extradition to the US.
The Canary Wharf cleaners stepped up their campaign against poverty pay when about 100 people demonstrated outside the Old Vic theatre in London on Thursday of last week.
A strike by more than 500 Glasgow Housing Association (GHA) staff closed nearly 60 offices across the city on Wednesday of last week. Management claimed that a large number of offices were open — but was unable to provide the names of any when the press asked for them!
DELEGATES TO the conference of the second biggest teachers’ union voted last week for a national industrial action ballot unless the government withdraws its plans to raise the pension age.
South Yorks gets music and unity Unity was the message as Rotherham rocked to its first ever Love Music Hate Racism event on Saturday of last week. Asian music award winners Metz and Trix — who filled in for bhangra band RDB at the last minute — went down a storm.
ITV workers’ strike set to hit flagship programmes Members of the Bectu and Amicus unions at ITV were set to strike on Friday, Saturday and Sunday of this week in their pay dispute. The strike involves over 700 broadcasting, production and studio staff at ITV centres in London, Leeds, Manchester, Liverpool, Norwich, Nottingham and Birmingham.
Walsall branch attacked Local government managers in Walsall, West Midlands, have launched an attack on the Unison union — effectively suspending branch officers and padlocking the union office.
The campaign for Lorin Sulaiman and her family to stay in Britian received good news last week, when the home office allowed sisters Lorin, 15, Eva, 16, and their mother, Amina, to stay for two years. A 3,500 signature petition organised by Lorin’s mates at Mayfield School, Portsmouth, helped secure the decision.
