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WORKERS AT Peugeot's car plant at Ryton are furious after having their hours increased for no extra pay.

WORKERS AT Sainsbury's distribution centre covering supermarkets across the north of England have voted to reject the company's pay offer and may be moving to a ballot for strike action.

TWO HUNDRED people protested against the continued detention of asylum seekers at Campsfield House in Kidlington, Oxfordshire, last weekend.

"THIS VOTE shows just how much we've been ground down by our national leadership."

ABOUT 1,600 council tenants in TOLLINGTON, north Islington, have voted against the privatisation of their homes.

A LIBERAL Democrat controlled council in West Yorkshire voted last week to award a contract to build four new special schools to Jarvis.

NATIONAL UNION of Journalists members at the Birmingham Post and Mail are working to contract in protest at threatened redundancies.

A TWO day shutdown at Bath Spa University recently forced the directorate to cough up a £300,000 loan to complete the new union building.

DOUG McAVOY, general secretary of the NUT teachers' union, retires in June. Some 70 NUT activists met in Nottingham on Saturday to try to choose a candidate of the left to stand for the position.

STUDENTS AT King's College, Cambridge, have won a victory after a rent strike lasting the whole of this term.

DRIVERS IN the Aslef train drivers' union on the Gatwick Express struck solidly on Friday of last week.

For the first time in nearly two decades an all-out strike by workers at Shorts engineering, one of the biggest manufacturing plants in Northern Ireland, started last week.