Some 120 mostly Asian women workers mounted a mass picket this morning at the Chemilines pharmaceuticals factory in north west London on the first of three strike days over pay.
Solidarity at Woolworths
Having heard that Woolworths workers were facing the dole, we decided to shift our Socialist Worker paper sale last week to the Woolworths store in Camberwell, south London.
Around 100 low paid workers at the Chemilines pharmaceuticals company in Wembley, north west London, are set to strike over wages on Tuesday of this week.
A strike by around 50 teachers at the Royal Docks School in Newham, east London, closed down the school on Wednesday of last week. The teachers, members of the NUT union, were striking over plans to shut the school and reopen it as an academy.
Bus workers in the Unite union have vowed to oppose plans unveiled by Transport for London (TfL) to privatise East Thames Buses, London’s only publicly-owned bus operator.
London bus drivers are to lobby the mayor’s Question Time on Wednesday of this week as part of the ongoing campaign to win equal and higher pay across all London bus companies.
Barnet council in north London is considering privatising all its basic services, including children’s services – and its plans are provoking opposition.
