Socialist Party public meeting – Leicester University, 7.30pm, Tuesday 5th December. (Venue TBC, but likely to be Ken Edwards Building). On Wednesday around 3 million public service workers went on strike – the biggest day of action since 1926. In Leicester around 5000 trade unionists marched in one of the biggest rallies in the city for decades. […]
Anger at the government’s attacks on pensions and public sector cuts have led to trade unions voting for the largest co-ordinated strike action in Britain since the general strike of 1926. 3-4 million public sector workers will be striking. We are not going to work until we are 68, or put up with cuts to vital […]
On Thursday 30th June, strike action was taken by four trade unions: NUT (National Union of Teachers), ATL (Association of Teachers and Lecturers), UCU (University and College Union) and PCS (Public and Commercial Services). In Leicester, this meant the closing or ‘partial closing’ of the vast majority of schools, courts, jobcentres and tax offices. Best […]
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