Teaching assistants at York University in Toronto are on strike after management cut 800 TA posts. TAs are essential for students; they are the ones who actually teach the courses and do the grading rather than the professor. The management are also not doing enough to make the campus safe for women. If these attacks go ahead they will affect everyone at the university – send messages of support to CUPE3903strikecommittee@gmail.com.
Construction/Blacklisting
Direct action wins the day as spectacular & immediate victory humiliates bullying construction bosses at Canary Wharf. 27-7-15
On Monday REEL NEWS attended an inspiring action by supporters of the Blacklist Support Group at the site of Morgan Stanley in the heart of the Canary Wharf financial district. Though in modest numbers the […]
Education
Lambeth College and Brixton Ritzy strikers fight for our future
Film length: 13:02 96% yes vote for an all out indefinite strike against cuts to sick pay and holidays, and increased hours – so Lambeth college’s management run to the courts to get an injunction […]
Council Workers
Birmingham binworkers’ strike: Megapicket 3 shuts down all depots
Running time: 3 mins 38 secs Hundreds of trade unionists swarmed to Birmingham for Megapicket 3 in support of striking binworkers facing paycuts of £8K a year – and shut down all the depots yet […]