GLASGOW Campaign to Defend Council Housing held a lobby of the Glasgow City Council meeting on Thursday of last week. Around 40 people attended the meeting.
BOTH the RMT and ASLEF rail unions are to ballot members on London Underground in a dispute over pay. London Underground Limited (LUL) has already rejected the report of an independent mediator. This recommended a miserly pay increase of 4 percent and talks on the other aspects of the unions' claim.
PLANS FOR major strikes against privatisation were given a boost on Monday, when over 500 UNISON members in Newcastle City Council voted for action. This will now trigger a one-day strike, probably on Friday 28 September, which could see up to 9,000 workers out across the city. The workers balloted are mainly staff in information technology and street lighting departments of the Labour-run council.
PRODUCTION workers at the Royal Shakespeare Company are to strike this weekend over redundancies. The dispute will threaten disruption to performances in Stratford-upon-Avon, says the BECTU union.
Hundreds of pupils as young as five struck for the whole day on Wednesday of last week at Hornchurch School in Essex against the siting of a mobile phone mast yards from the school
BAYING LOYALIST mobs on the one side. Catholic parents escorting girls as young as four to primary school on the other. The images from Holy Cross School in north Belfast should convince anyone that the sectarian divide in Northern Ireland is not about an even split between two antagonistic "communities".
JACK STRAW, as home secretary in the last government, personally stepped in to ensure that Satpal Ram, an innocent man, remained behind bars. Satpal was racially attacked in an Indian restaurant in 1986. Satpal defended himself, and his attacker later died.
TGWU UNION leader Bill Morris has added his voice to calls by anti-Nazis for the BBC and media to stop giving airtime to the BNP. Morris plans to write to the BBC slamming it for "becoming the house journal for the BNP. BNP leader Nick Griffin is on Radio 4 more than the prime minister. "The BBC is lending a hand in legitimising racism."
TRADE UNION leaders this week expressed what millions of workers in Britain feel-anger at Tony Blair's drive to privatise public services. New Labour ministers were making noises designed to head off this growing opposition. But Blair has made clear he still plans to press ahead. The only thing that will stop him is action.
Toxic Texan President George W Bush ordered the US delegates to leave the United Nations conference on racism this week. The US delegation marched out of the conference in South Africa because representatives of many countries had dared to condemn Israel's brutal treatment of the Palestinian people.
The big powers at the UN conference also pushed aside calls for them to apologise for the slave trade. The British government led the pack. Britain was at the forefront of the slave trade in the 18th century.
Gorton Tub LOCAL PEOPLE protested last week to show their anger at Manchester City Council's decision to close the popular swimming pool Gorton Tub. Campaigners went to the site of the £90 million Commonwealth Games stadium.
