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Universities on Strike
Today university staff across the country took their second day of united strike action. The three unions taking strike action had met on Monday 21st October with the pay negotiators, UCEA, but sadly the outcome of this meeting was not positive, as although the employers side were prepared to have further meetings with the unions, […]
Children Protest to Save Adventure Playgrounds
By Heather Rawling — Leicester National Union of Teachers (personal capacity) My heart sang when I saw and heard them. Children and young people, marching and singing and chanting and banging drums. They were making their grand entrance onto the political stage and would not be ignored. Protesting about Leicester City Council’s plans to drastically […]
The Alternative to Cuts!
According to a dull but informative report published in June by Her Majesty’s Treasury, the 2014-15 budget for the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) totaled £26.8 billion: that is £25.6 billion for local government and £1.2 billion for DCLG Communities. This official report, which was penned to justify cuts, then proudly announced that the Government […]
Labour Bullying with Playground Cuts
Leicester has nine amazing (if serially underfunded) adventure playgrounds spread out across our fine city, all of which provide vital services to our communities; providing nurturing and fun environments for our children in some of our most hard-done-by estates. Considering that all children can use these facilities for free, these essential public services come at […]
Smashing Playgrounds Again!
Leicester City Council are in the midst of a budget-cut-frenzy; all of which are totally unnecessary mind you. Vital public services are being shredded by a Labour Council that cares more about punishing the vulnerable (be they homeless or disabled) than opposing the Government. Now they are out to destroy the lives of our city’s […]
Striking Firefighter Myths
The government of the rich for the rich aren’t too fond of people who work hard for a living; and so take every opportunity they can to attack such workers if they think they can get away with it. To help along their despicable onslaught against the working-class the government are also quite prone […]
Public Protection, Not Private Profit
Napo’s nationwide 24-hour strike, which ended today at 12 noon, was initiated in order to oppose the Government’s insane plans to outsource 70% of the Probation Service’s work to private companies such as G4S, SERCO and Sodexo. This was a necessary form of industrial action that was widely supported by the public. Therefore to expand […]
Bailiff-Busting on Braunstone Estate
Yesterday, on the National Day of Action Against Austerity, protesters descended upon Braunstone estate in Leicester to demonstrate to the Labour Council that they would stand shoulder-to-shoulder to oppose the despised bedroom tax. The event was called as a joint initiative of Unite Community and the Leicestershire Anti-Bedroom Tax Federation in order to put extra […]
Probation Service Strike Back
Today members in the Probation Service of England and Wales organised through Napo walked out of work at 12 noon in order to take industrial action in the form of a 24-hour strike. This follows the conclusive ballot result where 84% of those polled showed their willingness to take part in opposition to Chris Grayling’s […]
The Firefighters Struggle Continues
Attacks on the working-class are intensifying by the day, as an illegitimate and anti-democratic coalition government try their best to crush all opposition to their barbaric agenda of cuts — which are of course totally unnecessary if they just decided to collect the £120 billion worth of tax that their rich fat-cat friends prefer not […]
