The government of the rich for the rich aren’t too fond of people who work hard for a living; and so take every opportunity they can to attack such workers if they think they can get away with it. To help along their despicable onslaught against the working-class the government are also quite prone […]
Napo’s nationwide 24-hour strike, which ended today at 12 noon, was initiated in order to oppose the Government’s insane plans to outsource 70% of the Probation Service’s work to private companies such as G4S, SERCO and Sodexo. This was a necessary form of industrial action that was widely supported by the public. Therefore to expand […]
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 […]
Sandra Lee, UNITE rep at Leicester University said: “We have had our pay effectively frozen for years. Now senior managers are paying themselves large bonuses whilst 10% of our staff don’t earn the living wage. As far as we are concerned whether teach medicine or law, whether you discovered Richard IIIrd or whether you keep […]
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 Young teachers proved Beth Davis, NUT president wrong when they took strike action and demonstrated to defend education and teachers pay and condition. At a Leicester City NUT meeting she said young teachers weren’t interested in striking to defend pensions. Yet in a rousing speech at the demo rally, […]
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 […]
Members of the Leicestershire Anti- Bedroom Tax Federation and the UNITE Community trade union who went to Leicester City Council’s Housing Scrutiny Commission last night felt that they had some success. Andy Connolly, Assistant City Mayor responsible for Housing, and a number of councillors on the commission said that they would be prepared to consider […]
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 […]
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