Big picket lines, student support, enthusiastic particpation and union recruitment as eight-day strike begins
Workers and students staged determined picket lines across Britain on Monday as an eight-day strike got underway.
Tory prime minister Boris Johnson presented himself as a champion of ordinary people against the politicians at the party’s manifesto launch in Telford, Shropshire, on Sunday.
The Tories are expected to announce on Sunday that they will bring in new laws to outlaw some rail strikes.
Hallam downplayed the Holocaust as “just another fuckery in human history” and “almost a normal event”.
Thousands of postal workers gathered outside their workplaces on Friday to tell Royal Mail bosses they won’t back down.
Overall, the tone of the manifesto is more combative than the one Labour released in 2017, bit there are important concessions to the right.
Strikes hit some 34 sixth form colleges on Wednesday as NEU union members walked out. The action was the third walkout in the union’s campaign over pay and funding – and the biggest so far.
Between an Emmerdale cliffhanger and the start of I’m A Celebrity stood Jeremy Corbyn and Boris Johnson. Despite the fact that neither politicians nor viewers were desperate to see the first TV debate, it nonetheless taught us something.
Library and museums workers in West Yorkshire began their fourth round of strikes against “devastating cuts” on Monday.
Hundreds of health workers in Berkshire and Surrey began a two-day strike against privatisation on Monday.
Workers at Nottingham College have voted overwhelmingly to accept a deal to end a long-running dispute. Some 15 days of strikes by UCU union members—and the threat of more—has blocked bosses’ attempts to drive down their pay and conditions.
