Solidarity 189
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Birmingham’s Tory-led council has made a number of concessions in a dispute with refuse workers, who suspended their ongoing work-to-rule and a planned strike.
Solidarity 3/189, 19 January 2011
Birmingham bin workers take on the council
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Heinz strikers take fourth day of action
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Workers at a Heinz plant in Wigan struck again in January for a fourth time in a long-running pay dispute with their bosses.
Coalition of Resistances focuses on 26 March
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The first meeting of the Coalition of Resistance National Council was held on 15 January.
Support Rawmarsh strikers
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National Union of Teachers members at Rawmarsh Community School in Rotherham are taking discontinuous strike action over savage cuts in staff at the school.
Southwark teach-in
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On Monday 17 January adult education students organised a teach-in at the Thomas Calton Centre in Peckham.
Support Jobcentre Contact Centre strikes
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3,500 civil servants in the Department for Work and Pensions will strike on Thursday 20 and Friday 21 January against dramatic changes to their work conditions.
Aim: a united stewards' movement
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Dave Chapple, chair of the National Shop Stewards’ Network (NSSN), spoke to Solidarity about the NSSN conference on 22 January which will discuss proposals from the Socialist Party to set up another anti-cuts centre in rivalry with CoR and Right To Work.
Eamonn Lynch: "Unity is all we have"
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Eamonn Lynch is a tube driver and RMT rep who was recently sacked from his job. Despite a tribunal finding in his favour, he is yet to be reinstated.
Operation Malone: don't come forward
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In the 1980s, the satirical magazine Private Eye nicknamed the police operation set up to track down individuals involved in the Brixton riots “Operation Wogsmasher”.