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 […]
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 […]
Emblazoned on the front-page of today’s Leicester Mercury is the somewhat inspiring headline “GOOD LORD! Next boss Lord Wolfson is due a £2.4m bonus — but hands it all to his employees.” Tory peer Simon Wolfson, we are told, is pleased to reward his staff for helping the Enderby business become a multi-billion-pound success — […]
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, […]
If you look at one of our local ambulances, you see the words “Arriva, in partnership with the NHS”. You might be mistaken for thinking that, out of a sense of community responsibility, the bus company has lent the NHS some vehicles for use. In fact, Arriva have bought out the East Midlands non-emergency ambulance […]
Last week in Doncaster, after two days of strike action, bin-workers in Unite the union employed by Sita UK “voted 70-50 to accept a revised pay offer and return to work.” This is excellent news, and “will give confidence to a group of workers only recently unionised and still in the process of building a […]
The UNITE picket line outside the Argos distribution centre at Magna Park, Lutterworth was well supported, with workers taking shifts to cover it round the clock. Passing lorries, nothing to do with the dispute were hooting their horns as they drove past the big UNITE banner. Parish Patel, UNITE regional officer said: “Our members feel […]
July 2008: On 17 July Argos workers in the Unite union launched a strike against an insulting pay offer of 3.8%, and the employer’s attempt to move them from weekly to monthly pay without any compensation. After a solid start to the strike it was eventually called off when Argos management revised their earlier pay […]
In South Africa the Lonmin struggle continues… with autopsy reports of the police-led massacre now conclusively demonstrating that “most of the people were fleeing from the police when they got killed.” If this was not bad enough, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) even initiated proceedings to use ‘common purpose’ Apartheid-era legislation to prosecute 270 of […]
Today eight recently sacked Remploy workers and union reps occupied the company’s head office in Leicester in a bid to force a recalcitrant management to the table to discuss the ongoing attacks on disabled workers. After having no joy talking on the phone to Remploy executive director of finance Nigel Hopkins, the occupiers finally succeeded […]
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