Yesterday, on the National Day of Action Against Austerity, protesters descended upon Braunstone estate in Leicester to demonstrate to the Labour Council that they would stand shoulder-to-shoulder to oppose the despised bedroom tax. The event was called as a joint initiative of Unite Community and the Leicestershire Anti-Bedroom Tax Federation in order to put extra […]
Today members in the Probation Service of England and Wales organised through Napo walked out of work at 12 noon in order to take industrial action in the form of a 24-hour strike. This follows the conclusive ballot result where 84% of those polled showed their willingness to take part in opposition to Chris Grayling’s […]
Attacks on the working-class are intensifying by the day, as an illegitimate and anti-democratic coalition government try their best to crush all opposition to their barbaric agenda of cuts — which are of course totally unnecessary if they just decided to collect the £120 billion worth of tax that their rich fat-cat friends prefer not […]
By Simon Robinson, Leicester NUT, personal capacity Rushey Mead School is a large secondary school in Leicester. It has been an ‘outstanding’ school for years and has strong links to the local community. It is also a brand new school building, one of the last few to get this funding before the government pulled the plug. […]
By Heather Rawling Life member NUT It has emerged that the now suspended and discredited head Tim Luckcock (yes I have spelt his name correctly) and the governing body spent over £48,000 on legal fees in the last year — a phenomenal amount for a school. This would have paid for the classroom teachers they […]
After two years of futile negotiations with a government firmly committed to torching public services, members the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) were finally pushed to take strike action today in an effort to ward off the vicious vendetta the government is pursuing against the public. In this instance, firefighters across the country went on the […]
Last July the BBC reported that: “A £230m outsourcing deal between security firm G4S and Lincolnshire Police will be ‘closely monitored’ by the Home Affairs Select Committee. Chairman Keith Vaz said the committee is keeping an eye on the contract with G4S, which is under fire for a separate deal to provide staff for the […]
By Heather Rawling retired NUT member Events have moved rapidly since teachers at Uplands Junior School in Leicester staged their second one day strike. The head, Dr Luckcock and Governors had been so determined to keep the school open that staff were seriously concerned for the quality of education and health and safety of the […]
Written by Heather Rawling retired NUT member Uplands Picket Line this Morning “Things are getting serious” a NUT member told me on the picket line at Uplands Junior School in Leicester. In a second marvelous show of solidarity, teachers at an inner city school have taken another day’s strike action to defend children’s education and […]
Heather Rawling, “Letter: Braunstone, Leicester,” The Socialist, May 8, 2013. Tessa Warrington, “TUSC builds support in Leicester byelection,” The Socialist, May 15, 2013.
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