Also: Local government workers ballot in Glasgow, strike in Ayrshire
AROUND 25 NUT union members at Prestwich Arts College in Manchester formed a solid picket line on Wednesday of last week.
Around 4,000 people marched through London to mark International Workers’ Day last Sunday.
Tory MPs are coming under increasing pressure over their refusal to let unaccompanied child refugees come to Britain.
A leaked draft for the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) deal between the European Union (EU) and the US underlines how rotten—and fragile—the treaty is.
David Cameron said last week, “Antisemitism is like racism, it is unacceptable.” Cameron is a hypocrite. In the same week as he attacked Labour’s supposed antisemitism, he was backing the Tory candidate for London mayor Zac Goldsmith.
Parents across England refused to take their six and seven year olds into schools on Tuesday. The “strike” was in protest at the hated Sats tests that turn schools into exam factories.
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Tory health secretary Jeremy Hunt was rocked by two solid junior doctors’ walkouts last week. It’s time to press home the advantage.
Two leading trade union activists at London Metropolitan University were last week told that they will be made redundant. The move against UCU union branch chair Mark Campbell and branch secretary David Hardman is a serious attack on the union.
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