A revolt by County Durham teaching assistants (TAs) is dividing the Labour Party. The TAs were set to walk out for their second 48-hour strike on Wednesday.
Council workers in Glasgow opened a new front last week in the battle against Labour council chiefs’ privatising
Teachers marched through central London on Thursday of last week in protest at cuts to education funding.
Lecturers at Edinburgh College have voted to strike over the unjustified sacking of a colleague and the victimisation of union rep Penny Gower who represented him.
Strikers from Fujitsu went to Munich in Germany last week to leaflet the firm’s Fujitsu Forum.
Four in every five London Underground station staff members feel less safe at work as a result of cuts imposed by bosses on the capital’s Tube stations.
Also: strike vote over attack on social work teams in Kirklees
The Tories’ assault on council housing hit a setback this week when housing minister Gavin Barwell announced that planned mandatory “Pay to Stay” rent hikes were being scrapped.
A series of mass drownings has brought the number of deaths in the Mediterranean this year to 4,700—20 percent more than the total for 2015.
Some patients are being forced to show their passports before receiving NHS treatment—and the attack could spread to other areas.
Also: SNP urged to nationalise Scotrail after one train cuts off Edinburgh
The protests that greeted Trump’s election have grown, spreading across the US.
