A BUZZ went around the meeting room as 450 people crammed into Manchester town hall for an anti-racist rally on Thursday of last week.
AROUND 400 people met in Morpeth, Northumberland, last week to discuss how to fight the proposal of Northumberland County Council to close three care homes and an adult training centre. Workers from the threatened services also demonstrated outside a meeting of the ruling Labour group of councillors (see picture).
THERE WILL be a vital meeting on 24 January for anyone wanting to help organise the next European Social Forum (ESF).
THE THREAT of strike action has made management at Blackburn College concede over pay.
REFUSE WORKERS and street cleansing workers in Hackney, east London, were due to start a four-day strike this week-and their escalation of the fight has management worried.
Delegation to the West Bank CAMPAIGNERS IN Preston were delighted last week when they received an official invitation from the Palestinian Authority to visit the West Bank as part of a fact-finding trip.
IMAGINE FACING the sack for an alleged offence against a person whose identity is never revealed to you. And then add that management will not tell you when or where the offence is supposed to have taken place.
Scottish nursery nurses ballot on all-out strike More than 4,000 of Scotland's nursery nurses still in dispute with local councils are to ballot on an all-out indefinite strike.
We are a small group of Amicus union members trying to organise our site at BAE Systems in London. The workforce is white collar, with no trade union tradition.
University teachers and support staff in the AUT union are balloting for strike action against a background of a national debate on fees and the future of higher education.
Over 1,000 protesters gathered outside the French embassy in London last Saturday. They were protesting against attempts by President Chirac and his right wing government to ban the headscarf worn by Muslim women, known as the hijab, from French schools.
