Villiers High School in Southall, west London, was closed to most students on Wednesday 8 December when 60 members of the NUT and ATL teaching unions struck against management bullying.
Trade unions across the world, including the TUC, are calling for solidarity with Iranian trade union leader Reza Shahabi, who has been on hunger strike since 4 December in protest at his continuing imprisonment.
Tube workers in the RMT union’s London Underground Engineering branch tonight passed full support for the student protests – and donated £250 to the Education Activist Network (EAN). The workers also called for the student protests to be part of wider and deeper resistance by workers, including a general strike.
Memories of repression under Franco’s dictatorship returned to Spain at the weekend when a "state of alert" was used to end a strike by air traffic controllers.
The result of the strike ballot to defend hundreds of jobs at the Passport Office in Newport and interview offices around Britain was due on Wednesday of this week.
Workers at the Heinz Kitt Green site in Wigan have voted overwhelmingly to strike over pay. The 1,200 members of the Unite union are now set to strike for 24 hours from 10pm on Wednesday of next week.
Members of the RMT union at Manchester’s local operator Northern Rail are balloting to strike over pay, in a dispute that could hit Christmas services.
