STRIKING COUNCIL workers in Liverpool’s child social work and emergency duty teams appealed for solidarity from other trade unionists as their bitter all-out industrial dispute entered a critical phase at the start of this week.
ABOUT 240 people packed into the community hall of the North London Mosque in Wightman Road, Haringey, on Saturday of last week.
Crown Post Offices Counter staff in the CWU union at over 300 Crown post offices are balloting for official strike action this week. The ballot is part of a national dispute over Christmas Eve opening hours.
ABOUT 70 people attended a Calderdale Against the War meeting in Halifax, West Yorkshire, last week.
TEACHING ASSISTANTS in Brighton and Hove are set to strike on Friday of this week as part of their ongoing campaign against low pay.
PARENTS AND pupils were on their way to a protest against the privatisation of their east London school under the government’s city academies’ scheme when they discovered the main sponsor was pulling out.
AMBULANCE workers on Merseyside may strike against pay inequalities under Agenda for Change—New Labour’s sweeping transformation of NHS pay and conditions.
OVER 50 people attended a recent anti-incinerator meeting at Colnbrooke Primary School, west London, and over 100 marched on Grundon’s waste disposal site.
ABOUT 50 people attended a vigil outside Bush House, home of the BBC World Service, last week over the BBC’s reporting (or lack of it) of recent events in Iraq.
HARD-HITTING industrial action at Co-Op Funeralcare has forced bosses to make a new pay offer. Members of the TGWU and GMB unions at the company are now voting on a new pay rise.
EVERY DAY 8,000 people die from AIDS. The United Nations AIDS programme has estimated that £20,000 million a year could treat six million AIDS sufferers with life saving drugs.
AS A lawyer, I have other concerns beyond whether David Blunkett is the father of the two children to a married woman he was having an affair with and whether he fast-tracked a visa for her servant.
