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UCU union members at Barnsley College have voted by 76 percent in favour of strike action against redundancies and College restructuring.

Workers at Tower Hamlets College, east London, are taking all-out, indefinite strike action to defend jobs and education.

Lecturers formed mass pickets outside Tower Hamlets college in east London today, on the first day of an all-out, indefinite strike.

Lecturers at Manchester College are set to strike on Thursday of this week in an escalation of their dispute over job cuts.

Wind turbine firm Vestas – which was at the centre of a two-week occupation after closing and sacking all its 600 staff – wants to sponsor city academies.

Lecturers at Tower Hamlets College in east London are set to begin an all-out indefinite strike from Thursday of this week to defend education and jobs.

Strikes by lecturers at City College Birmingham have forced management to promise that there will be no compulsory redundancies at the site.

The fight against academy schools in Tamworth is set to continue when teachers return from the summer break.

More than 200 children, parents and teachers joined clowns and jugglers at the Stop the Sats barbecue organised by the Birmingham NUT teachers’ union last Saturday at Park Hill Primary School.

Teachers in the NUT union at Edmonton Boys School, Enfield, north London, have voted to be balloted for strike action next term. They oppose moves by school management and the borough to turn their community school into a trust.

NUT teachers’ union members at Haggerston school in Hackney were to strike again on Tuesday and Thursday of this week following a solid strike on Thursday of last week.

A campaign against cuts at a Hackney primary school has ended in the Learning Trust promising to reverse a decision to cut £70,000 from next year’s school budget.