Seventy-eight UNITE union members in the Pathology department at Northampton General Hospital have been locked out of work by a vicious management. Since 26 July they have maintained a protest outside the hospital. Steve Score went down to support the protest and spoke to Terry Lodge, lead UNITE rep at the hospital who works in […]
Yesterday a successful meeting was organised by the Leicester Campaign Against NHS Privatization in the town centre to inform local residents about the ongoing attacks on the NHS. Critically, the meeting was convened to also consider what actions can be taken to safeguard public service values and the principles underpinning the NHS. The featured main […]
There was great support in the sunshine at Western Fire Station, New Parks, Leicester from local people this morning. The 24 hour action was the longest so far in this dispute, but one passer-by suggested that maybe they need to stay out for longer to force the government to listen. The pickets agreed, saying that […]
Click here to watch an interview with Helen Pattison from Youth Fight for Jobs featured on tonight’s Channel 4 News. For an empowering two hours earlier this evening, McDonald’s in Leicester was host to an international solidarity protest. Invitations had been sent out by the Baker Food and Allied Workers Union and Youth Fight for […]
Hundreds of people rallied together in Leicester on Monday to celebrate May Day, helping strengthen the links between local workers who are determined to unite in the fight-back against all the political parties of cuts. On the same day The Guardian newspaper somehow managed to find the space to write a useful article about the […]
A pushchair protest took place in Leicester on 30 April against the cuts being made by the council to children’s centres. Parents affected by the cuts to the centres and members of “Leicestershire Against the Cuts” (LAC) marched in opposition to the slashing of this service which plays a crucial role in supporting families across […]
UPDATE: TREC posted this article “We Stood Our Ground” which includes powerful videos of some of the speakers at the protest. Around 100 people protested outside the Labour Group meeting in Leicester today against the threatened withdrawal of funding for the Leicester Race Equality Centre (TREC). Speakers at the rally made the point that TREC […]
According the Leicester Mercury, Tory peer Simon Wolfson, who is the chief executive of the Enderby-based retail giant Next, is happy for two reasons. The first owes to the fact that Eleanor, his new wife (of 2012) — who happens to be George Osborne’s economic adviser — has recently given birth to the couple’s first heir […]
By Ian Reynolds The National Association of Probation Officers (Napo) and the London Criminal Courts Solicitors Association called a two-day strike from the 31st March. This is the second time both groups have taken industrial action within six months — but the first time action has been coordinated — to oppose the cuts and privatisation […]
Burning with discontent, trade unionists and socialists joined in a national day of action on Saturday against corporate scroungers who are content with exploiting their workers with zero-hour contacts. Locally, more than fifty people gathered in Shirebrook, Derbyshire, to highlight the oppressive conditions at Sports Direct’s regional warehouse. This modern-day work house employs around 5,000 […]
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