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 […]
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 […]
By Steve Score (reporting from Freemen’s Park campus picket line) Spirits were high on today’s frosty morning that striking FE teaching staff gathered outside Leicester College Freemen’s Park campus. The strike is over low pay as a result of what workers describe as sustained underfunding of Further Education. Many UCU (University and College Union) members in […]
Like the NHS, our prison service is at breaking point. Ongoing funding cuts and forced privatisations are destroying this critical public utility, making life intolerably dangerous for both staff and prisoners. This morning, members of the Prison Officers Association (POA) union from across the country, including Leicester, took part in coordinated protests (not strikes, which […]
Last September McDonald’s workers took strike action at two of the food giants stores, and in doing so made history. This was the first time that McDonald’s workers had ever taken strike action in Britain. Since then many more people have joined the Baker’s Union which is presently campaigning to organise all McDonalds’ staff by […]
“The gender pay gap for full-time workers is entirely in favour of men for all occupations”. This is the first line of a report from the Office for National Statistics on the results of the governments’ gender pay gap survey, released earlier this year. Since 1970 and the passing of the Equal Pay Act into […]
On Saturday 31st March Leicester Socialist Party hosted a public meeting to discuss the lessons that could be learned today from the famous Grunwick strike which took place just over forty years ago. The introductory talk was given by Jean Thorpe. (Thanks to Ambrose Musiyiwa for filming the meeting.) The meeting was also addressed by […]
The following review was written by Tony Church A review of We Are The Lions, Mr Manager (Neil Gore, Townsend Productions) We Are The Lions, Mr Manager is a typical piece of political theatre from Townsend Productions and from the pen of Neil Gore. In usual style, it uses words and music to bring to […]
“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 […]
This article, originally published last year, was written by Leicester Socialist Party member Tessa Warrington and was first published in the national newspaper of the Socialist Party, but given the ongoing campaign being waged by the Baker’s Union to organise workers in Leicestershire (at Amazon’s new site in Ellistown, Coalville) it is now being republished […]
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