ShareTweet By NUT and NASUWT The two largest teacher unions, the NASUWT and the NUT, representing nine out of ten teachers, are today confirming the next phase of their jointly coordinated campaign to Protect Teachers and Defend Education. Following the continued refusal of the Secretary of State to genuinely engage with the…
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NASUWT AND NUT CONFIRM NEXT PHASE OF INDUSTRIAL ACTION
A funeral procession for Barnet’s democracy and public services | August 31
ShareTweet By Barnet Alliance for Public Services Saturday, 31 August ,11 AM, Sainsbury’s Golders Green car park, Finchley Road Gone Barnet Democracy – Enter Crapitaville As many of you know, the One Barnet programme of privatisation was unlawfully pushed through by the council. The two massive contracts, together worth over £1 billion, were…
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Barnet Council forms joint Venture with Capita Symonds
ShareTweet By BABS Barnet Council today announced that its preferred bidder for the Joint Venture to runDevelopment and Regulatory Services (DRS) is Capita Symonds, a wholly owneddivision of Capita. The contract is worth £275 million over 10 years. The Barnet Alliance for Public Services (BAPS) is appalled that Barnet Council is intending toaward…
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Video from defend Whittington hospital march
ShareTweet Video from the defend Whittington hospital demonstration on Saturday 16 March 2013. Roger Lloyd Pack Owen Jones: Whole march sped up: Traffic sounds support for demo: Jeremy Corbyn MP: Video by Dan Poulton
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Join the Barnet Spring
ShareTweet Barbara and Bob Jacobson report on why the struggle against privatisation in Barnet is an issue for all who read this site: The Barnet Alliance for Public Services (BAPS) is a coalition of residents, community and campaign groups, and trade unions in the London Borough of Barnet who want to protect our quality…
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Valentine’s Day in defence of Lewisham hospital
ShareTweet Fantastic film about the Valentine’s Day buggy protest outside Dept of Health in which 150 parents, grandparents, friends babies and toddlers turned up at the Department of Health to demand that Hunt doesn’t rip the heart out of our Hospital!. Jeremy Hunt: we will keep coming back! : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDc6a-5gOYQ&sns=em
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Birmingham Labour forces through Cuts Budget
ShareTweet Godfrey Webster from Birmingham against the Cuts reports: On Tuesday February 26th Birmingham City Council finally adopted a budget for 2013 – 2014 involving £102 million of cuts out of a previous disposable budget of £1100 million. It will involve the loss of 1000 jobs and cuts to the full range of…
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Video: Newcastle unites against cuts to services
ShareTweet Video from the 1,000 plus march in Newcastle on Saturday 16 February, opposing devastating cuts to public services The march and rally involved Coalition of Resistance, a wide range of community campaigns, and trade unions in organising and building it. It was backed by Northern TUC, while campaigns like Save Newcastle Libraries and…
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Get ready for the Barnet Spring
ShareTweet by Terry Conway Barnet Council’s ‘One Barnet’ privatisation programme is the shape of things to come for local government if the Condems are able to get away with their plans to make ordinary people pay for the crisis. Workers and users in Barnet have been campaigning hard over many months against different…
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Newcastle unites against cuts to services
ShareTweet By Alex Snowdon, Tyne and Wear Coalition of Resistance Well over 1000 people marched in Newcastle today in a united show of opposition to devastating cuts inflicted on public services. The city’s Labour council is implementing coalition cuts in draconian fashion, with libraries, youth services, play services and the arts all set…
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