More than 40 schools across Brighton and Hove were closed on Thursday and Friday of last week as around 700 teaching assistants from the Unison and GMB unions struck over low pay.
SOCIAL WORKERS in childcare and emergency duty teams in Liverpool are now in the 14th week of their strike.
Scottish workers say no to racism Up to 1,000 people attended the Scottish TUC annual demonstration against racism and fascism in Glasgow last Saturday. Trade union delegates included firefighters, print workers and several Unison and EIS (Scottish teachers’ union) branches.
POST OFFICE counters workers across Britain are voting on strikes in protest at unacceptable Christmas arrangements which are an insult to both staff and claimants.
CIVIL SERVICE workers in the PCS union want to step up the action in their dispute over 104,000 job cuts, and attacks on pensions and sick pay.
LONDON Underground station staff have been ofered a 35-hour week deal as a result of the RMT union’s recent pay strike.
FIREFIGHTERS ON Merseyside were set to begin a campaign of industrial action from Thursday of this week over a scheme to make them double up as paramedics.
THE FRIENDS of Palestine Society at Warwick University organised a debate on Israeli apartheid last week.
Striking workers at Boddington’s brewery in Manchester went back to work on Friday of last week after their latest four days of strike action.
AROUND 100 people attended a social event organised by Sheffield Committee to Defend Asylum Seekers (CDAS) last Saturday afternoon.
A DEVASTATING High Court judgment has completely vindicated George Galloway in his libel battle against the Daily Telegraph newspaper.
