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 […]
During the PCS rolling strike action, which took place in the East Midlands on June 5th, Steve Score from the Socialist Party spoke to Peter Tinley (rep, PCS HMRC Leicester) who explained: “We are out today, not only because of the cuts to terms and conditions and jobs and pensions. “But it is also to […]
Teachers Strike to Defend Children’s Education and Save Teaching Assistant Jobs Heather Rawling retired NUT member In a marvellous show of solidarity, teachers at an inner city school have taken strike action to defend children’s education and the jobs of eight teaching assistants. A united picket line demonstrated the determination of teachers to win their […]
Today on a freezing picket line in Leicester, BBC workers came out on strike to oppose “compulsory redundancies, excessive workloads and bullying and harassment within the corporation.” With union membership growing as a result of recent strike action, members of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) and BECTU, the UK’s media and entertainment trade union, […]
The TUC are meeting for the annual conference in Brighton on the 9th September. The Socialist Party supports the call of the National Shop Stewards Network to put pressure on the trade unions to call a general strike against austerity. Transport details for an important lobby of the TUC to call a 24 hour general […]
With the breathtaking announcement of the government’s plans to close or sell-off the 54 factories that provide employment for disabled workers, on the 19th and 26th of July disabled workers across the country will be taking strike action (from 6am onwards) to oppose the coalition’s brutal attacks on their livelihoods. Please join the Socialist Party […]
Today, hundreds of HM Revenue and Customs staff are taking part in strike action in Leicester. The action is part of the Public and Commercial Services Union’s sustained campaign to defend jobs and services, vital for tax justice, from cutbacks and privatisation. They join up to 55’000 other PCS members in HMRC taking action across […]
Solidarity with UNITE, PCS and UCU members taking action on May 10th. Go down to a local picket line and give the strikers your support this morning. There will be a rally with speakers from striking unions at the Oddfellows Club on Humberstone Gate at 12 noon (this is not hosted by Leicester Socialist Party). Tuesday 15th May – […]
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 […]
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