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.
Living Wage/Basic Rights
Time for £12! Sage care workers strike for a living wage
Running Time: 11 mins 2 secs Care workers and cleaners at Sage Nursing Home in Golders Green, North London, strike for three days over their poverty wages and awful terms and conditions – in a […]
Council Workers
Derby Support Staff Dispute: The Whole Story
Film length: 18:16 The full story of Derby teaching assistants epic struggle to stop a 25% pay cut – imposed, incredibly, after an equal pay review of a workforce comprising 94% low paid women workers. […]
Transport
Bus drivers strike against insulting pay offer
Running Time: 4 mins 43 secs Bus drivers in West London working for French company RATP have been forced into strike action to increase an insulting pay offer of just 0.5% – way lower than […]