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Share On the back of pickets at the Glasgow velodrome and before planned action at the Govan shipyards this week, around 100 electricians turned out at the Glasgow Radisson to come face to face with the bosses who are threatening to rip up the JIB national agreement. The JIB agreement in place since the…
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Share “Education is a battlefield”, said CWU’s head of education and training Trish Lavelle, as she opened the department’s fringe event at this year’s CWU annual conference in Bournemouth. Themed “The battle for education”, Trish continued to set the scene for the meeting by branding the Con-Dem government’s attacks on education as: “the most…
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Share Fred Leplat, one of the conference’s organisers, offers his thoughts on a significant event. The Europe Against Austerity conference last Saturday was attended by 681 people including 150 from outside Britain. This happened the same weekend that two big demonstrations took place. On Saturday in Glasgow, there was the “People First” demonstration of…
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Share OLME – the Greek federation of secondary education state school teachers – is participating in and supporting the “Europe Against Austerity” conference. Themis Kotsifakis, General Secretary of OLME, who will be speaking at the conference, sends a message of support: “The Greek Government and the Troika (EU-IMF-ECB) have imposed severe austerity measures, slashing…
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Share Teachers from the NUT, ATL and NASUWT unions at Kenton School, a large secondary school in Newcastle, began the first of three days of strike action today. They are taking action over plans to turn the school into an academy. A picket of around 80 had assembled at the school gate by 8:15…
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Share A cutback has been sneaked in by the Coalition. The government is to stop the subsidy to coach companies (or, at least, National Express) which allows them to offer discounted fares (up to 50% discount) to disabled & 60+ coach travellers. This will stop many from being able to visit their families around…
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Share In a letter published in the Guardian today, leading figures of the European left oppose the austerity being imposed on working people and support the Europe Against Austerity conference taking place in London on 1st October. We reprint the letter below. Three years ago the world economy stood on a precipice. Collapse was…
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Share Olivier Besancenot of France’s NPA is the latest high profile speaker to confirm for the Europe Against Austerity conference Those who were hoping that the summer would bring some relief to the crisis must be cruelly disappointed. Share values continue to fall and the Eurozone bail-outs are hitting the rocks. In Britain, the…
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Share Around 25 activists gathered for a mass leafletting and protest against the proposed privatisation of the NHS in Leeds City Square ahead of the vote in Parliament scheduled for the 7th September. We gave out over 2000 leaflets from trade unions and Keep Our NHS Public Leeds and enjoyed a good response from…
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Share Hundreds of workers in the Glasgow based charity Quarriers have taken part in 24 hours of strike action today, against pay cuts of up to 23% and changes to terms and conditions. The charity provides adults with disabilities, families and children, teenagers and people with epilepsy vital support services in the city. The…
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