UK Workers' Movements Newswire Archive
Britain’s teachers and civil servants to take one-day strike action
23-04-2008 16:04
For the first time in 21 years, teachers in the National Union of Teachers (NUT) will come out on a one-day strike on April 24 in opposition to the government’s imposition of a 2.45 percent pay award. With the current rate of inflation running at 4.1 percent this represents a pay cut in real terms. To make things worse, the pay award offered in January runs for three years—with a 2.45 percent increase in September, and just 2.3 percent in each of the following two years.MJB Tour comes to Sheffield
23-04-2008 12:27
Strike to close one third of Nottingham schools
22-04-2008 16:54
Thurs 1st May Workers Day festival Wolverhampton
22-04-2008 16:35
Come and join the 14th annual 1st May celebrations in Wolverhampton.
Berlin Mayday Newsletter
21-04-2008 18:22
Only 10-ish days left 'til Mayday! Get involved!Take Action: Abolition of 10p Tax Rate
20-04-2008 11:03
Brendan Barber, head of the TUC, has strongly criticised the abolition of the 10p tax rate. Barber has voiced concerns that the government has been paying far too much attention to the "siren voices of those campaigning to the super rich and the corporate elite."100,000 civil servants to strike on April 24
19-04-2008 17:43
Workers in ten government departments and agencies will join thousands of other public and voluntary sector workers in a strike over pay.
Free Mumia now! All out today at 1pm, US Embassy, London!
19-04-2008 08:22
Mumia Abu-Jamal
is innocent!
Abolish the racist
death penalty!
Saturday 19 April
1pm, US Embassy,
Grosvenor Square, London W1A
(Nearest Tube: Bond Street)
Contact the Partisan Defence Committee on 020 7281 5504 or at
partisandefence@yahoo.co.uk. Visit www.partisandefense.org for details of international protests taking place today and in the coming week and for a list of the organisations and individuals, representing thousands upon thousands of trade unionists and anti-racists, who have endorsed the international mobilisations.
Around the Campaigns Friday 18th April 2008
18-04-2008 09:27
- In this period every 2.3 days a detainee self-harmed requiring medical treatment. Last year 157 detainees were hospitalized after self-harming, 1,517 were put on 'Formal Self-Harm at Risk'
http://www.ncadc.org.uk/resources/self-harm2006.html
Facsist Home Attacked
18-04-2008 08:54
Bedfordshire Fagin Facsist Home AttackedFree Mumia now! All out this Saturday!
17-04-2008 20:17
Mumia Abu-Jamal
is innocent!
Abolish the racist
death penalty!
Saturday 19 April
1pm, US Embassy,
Grosvenor Square, London W1A
(Nearest Tube: Bond Street)
The latest PDF leaflet with new endorsers is attached; contact the PDC for more information and to help build the demonstration, speak and to endorse the protest. 020 7281 5504
partisandefence@yahoo.co.uk www.partisandefense.org
Pavilion facing bankruptcy?
17-04-2008 15:43
The Housing Corporation has admitted that at least ten housing associations are facing bankruptcy in the growing credit crisis. Is Pavilion Housing Association one of this select group?Lecturers to join teachers' strike
16-04-2008 23:29
20,000 Birmingham council workers to strike
16-04-2008 23:27
Shelter charity workers to strike again
16-04-2008 23:24
Workers at homelessness charity Shelter will be striking on 24 April alongside tens of thousands of other workers against attacks on pay and conditions.Interview with NUT activist
16-04-2008 18:43
On April 24, the National Union of Teachers (NUT) will hold the first national teachers strike in more than twenty years. Angry at a below inflation pay award, NUT members across the country have voted for industrial action at a ratio of four to one.
With real terms pay cuts being the in thing in the public sector right now, civil servants in the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) and further education lecturers in the University and College Union (UCU) have also voted to strike on the same day.
In Nottingham there will be a march from The Forest Recreation Ground at 10am, with a rally at the Congregation Hall, Castle Gate at 11am. Speakers will include Martin Sleath (Unison - who aren't striking), Mary Pope (PCS), Helen Bowler (UCU) and Liam Conway (NUT).
To give some insight into why teachers are striking, I interviewed Liam Conway, the Joint Secretary of Notts NUT and began by asking him what his impressive sounding title actually entails.
Yousuf belongs to Wales
16-04-2008 11:25
Pavilion gets greedy
15-04-2008 16:48
Privatisation of Council Services: The True Costs - Meeting in Brixton, 8th May
15-04-2008 10:35
Speakers include:John McDonnell MP – Chair of the Socialist Campaign Group
Ted Knight – ex-Leader of Lambeth Council
Derek Wall – Male Principal Speaker, Green Party
Rahul Patel – ex-Branch Secretary of Westminster UNISON
Jean Kerrigan – ex-Chair of Tenants’ Council
Leicester College boss tries to intimidateIWW & proves how much he sucks
14-04-2008 21:50
Leicester Adult Education College boss Chris Minter tries to intimidate & proves how much he sucks at protest meeting against planned privatisation,job cuts&sell offs of public assets