by Socialist Party Southern & South East Region | Jul 11, 2020 | Featured, Southampton, Trade Unions
An overwhelming victory for rank-and-file activists is the result of the first contested branch elections in years for Southampton University and College Union (UCU). The new rank and file convincingly won the majority of positions, including president,...
by Socialist Party Southern & South East Region | Jul 11, 2020 | Featured, Southampton
Thousands of jobs already destroyed. Thousands more announced almost every day. The ‘job retention scheme’ is turning into a jobs haemorrhage as the government starts to wind it down, with a view to scrapping it in October. Now many profit-rich companies...
by Socialist Party Southern & South East Region | Jun 19, 2020 | Council Cuts, Featured, Southampton
Local authorities in Britain are tasked with meeting local social needs arising from the coronavirus pandemic and its economic consequences. They have never been in a worse position to do so. Already ravaged by over ten years of austerity, they now face even bleaker...
by Socialist Party Southern & South East Region | Jun 19, 2020 | Featured, Southampton, Trade Unions, Youth
A £10 billion financial black hole faces councils, according to a Labour Party report. The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a big rise in the demands on social care – for which local authorities are responsible. This, a decade of unchallenged austerity, and a big...
by Socialist Party Southern & South East Region | Jun 19, 2020 | Southampton, Students
Like many workplaces, university bosses have come under fire for their slow and inadequate response to the coronavirus crisis. In Southampton, all three campus trade unions wrote to the vice-chancellor outlining our concerns about insufficient information and advice,...
by Socialist Party Southern & South East Region | Jun 19, 2020 | Southampton, Trade Unions
Over 70 trade unionists packed Southampton Friends Meeting House on 7 March committing to resist any attempts made by the Tory government to remove workers’ right to strike. The meeting brought together trade unionists from the RMT transport union, Communication...
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