Ford staff stand up to dictating management
Striking staff at Ford Motor Company rallied outside the engine plant in Dagenham, East London, on 13 November. Salaried staff at Ford told us they’d had enough of management trying dictate to the union.
Striking staff at Ford Motor Company rallied outside the engine plant in Dagenham, East London, on 13 November. Salaried staff at Ford told us they’d had enough of management trying dictate to the union.
Parents, carers and the community are celebrating a huge win as Hackney Council concedes children’s centre judicial review. This means that Hackney Council has to consult again before making any changes to childcare provision in their children’s centres.
On 5 November, teachers at BSix Sixth Form College in Hackney, east London, started a series of strikes over pay and conditions. “Teachers in schools recently got a 5.5% salary increase and ours was just 2.5%”
Bus drivers and road safety campaigners marched through central London on 5 November to Transport for London (TfL)’s posh head office.
Housing maintenance and repair workers at Haringey council have decided to take indefinite strike action over the Labour council’s continued refusal to negotiate with them over the issue of pay despite them not having a pay rise in over a decade!
Talks are ongoing. London Underground offered an average pay rise of 4.6%, worth up to 5.9% for the lowest paid, but strings attached mean that not everyone gets a consolidated rise.
The special educational needs system (SEND) is “financially unsustainable”. That’s what a report from the National Audit Office has found.
Alan Hardman was the first printer of the Militant (the Socialist’s predecessor) and produced hundreds of political cartoons for publication in our party publications. A book, ‘Need Not Greed’, has been published of his cartoons and artwork
If you go to A&E in Kings College Hospital in London and require a wheelchair, you’d best get your credit card out!
Students at Queen Mary University in East London organised a protest to mark a year of brutal attacks on Palestinians by Israeli state forces. Mihaela Ivanova, Socialist Students activist and Socialist Party member, gave a speech to the protest
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