Members of the Unite union debated the Labour Party this week. This was a central theme of the union’s policy conference in Liverpool.
London Underground bosses are reneging on promises to protect workers’ salaries and their location of work—part of a deal struck to call off Tube strikes in May.
Workers who control the power to run trains on London Underground were set to strike for eight days from 8pm on Tuesday of this week.
The Unite union suspended a strike by meter readers working for EDF energy on Friday of last week after bosses offered a 2 percent rise.
Workers at Tyneside Safety Glass in Gateshead began a two-week strike on Monday of this week.
Up to 300 people gathered in Markfield Park, north London last Saturday to protest against a violent Nazi attack that had taken place there.
Unite Against Fascism (UAF) supporters joined 40 people for Operation Clean-Up at the Jewish cemetery in Blackley, north Manchester, last Sunday.
Strikes at Glasgow’s largest bus operator First Group over pay took a step closer after workers rejected paltry pay offers from bosses.
More than 100 people joined a freedom ride protest in Barnsley today, Monday. Disabled people, pensioners and their supporters gathered to lobby a meeting of the South Yorkshire Transport Executive.
Up to 1,000 people jammed into the launch rally of Putting Birmingham Schoolkids First last night, Thursday, at the Bordesley Centre in Camp Hill. So many people came that organisers had to set up an overflow hall. The meeting was a response to the attacks on Birmingham schools by Ofsted and Tory minister Michael Gove triggered by the discredited “Trojan Horse” letter.
Meter readers began picketing at energy giant EDF’s building in Bexley Heath, south east London, this morning, Thursday, as the Unite union stepped up selective action.
Workers across Britain held stunts and protests in solidarity with Lambeth College strikers yesterday, Wednesday.
