After their successful one-day strike on 6 February, staff from both sites at WQE college in Leicester struck again on 13-14 February. The workers are striking to protect pay and conditions and achieve parity between both sites after a recent merger. Picketing is not easy, with several entrances to cover, but there were plenty of […]
Tory fake news By Michael Barker, Leicester East Socialist Party Britain’s leading apologist for the government’s divisive ‘anti-terrorist’ Prevent strategy, Will Baldet, once again showed his contempt for democracy when he recently mangled the truth on Channel 4’s evening news programme. Mr Baldet chose to misrepresent the truth, in order to belittle the validity of […]
By Franklin O’Riordan, Leicester East Socialist Party “Management has attempted to appeal directly to staff rather than negotiating with elected workplace representatives. This has backfired. It has made more National Education Union (NEU) members all the more determined to succeed.” This is what Leicester NEU officer Ian Leaver told Socialist Party members when more than […]
We all know the story. Tories are cutting services in the name of austerity. Labour Councils are meekly carrying them out, claiming (incorrectly) that there is nothing they can do. But what is galling is that, three years on since Jeremy Corbyn’s election as Labour leader, Leicester’s Labour council continues to justify government cut backs […]
“Huge issues are facing the trade union movement today,” explained Linda Taaffe earlier today in Birmingham in her role as the Secretary of the National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN); at a gathering of activist trade unionists coming together in a city playing host to an important industrial faceoff between their bin workers and their Labour-run […]
Under plans unveiled in the Tories’ manifesto, free lunches for infant school students will be scrapped. They were introduced under the Con-Dem government to draw attention away from its package of school cuts. These cuts have just got worse, to the point where our schools are reaching breaking point – and now this concession is […]
More than one thousand people attended a march in Leicester today in opposition to the proposed closure of Glenfield Children’s Heart Unit. NHS England claim that the closure of Glenfield has nothing to do with budget cuts, but is about “standards and quality of service”. This is total rubbish. The Tories are planning to cut […]
Supply teachers from Leicester and Leicestershire lobbied local supply agencies in Leicester city centre on Wednesday 1st June about the waste of public money and cuts in pay and conditions in supply teaching. Supply agencies lobbied included Hays, Capita, Reed, and Protocol. Schools are paying commercial recruitment agencies millions of pounds a year In order […]
Following a successful rally in support of Junior Doctors and the future of the NHS, Leicestershire Against the Cuts held a well-attended public meeting on Monday night to discuss how we can build linkages between unions and community groups in defence of all public services. With the government refusing to talk to Junior Doctors and […]
Our NHS is under attack like never before, and we must act now to save it. As a worker in the NHS and a UNISON member, I chaired a protest organised by Leicestershire Against The Cuts last Saturday. It brought together campaigners from groups such as TUSC, the Socialist Party, the Green Party, Momentum, and […]
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