THE NEW mood in workplaces across Britain is shown well by the experience in one city-Sheffield.
BY 6AM around 500 strikers had gathered at the entrances to Land Rover's plant in Solihull on Monday. They were not deterred by the high fences that the police had put up to pen them in.
MORE THAN 100 workers at the Beagle aircraft firm in Christchurch, Dorset, staged a one-day strike on Friday of last week in support of their pay claim.
THE BATTLE between Hackney refuse workers and the Labour council got more bitter-and important-last week.
STRIKES BY workers at Sainsbury's distribution depot in Haydock, near St Helens, have forced the supermarket giant to make a new pay offer.
JOURNALISTS working at the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph have begun balloting for strike action over pay.
ON TUESDAY of last week 150 London School of Economics (LSE) students formed a human chain in front of the main university building in protest at director Howard Davies's public support for top-up fees.
A RECENT report in Socialist Worker (17 January) about the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Refugee Forum included an error in editing. It suggested that Gary Freeman, a member of the forum, is an asylum seeker on £54 per week.
ON THURSDAY last week, as strikers marched back into work at the East London Mail Centre, the song \"You Don't Get Me I'm Part of the Union\" blared around the office. Somebody had put it on the Distribution music system as part of our defiant celebration of a victory over an outrageous attempt to sack two of our colleagues.
MEMBERS OF the socialist Left Unity group in the PCS civil servants' union are voting on who will be their candidate for the forthcoming election for the union's assistant general secretary.
