Archive For March, 2012
BRISTOL & DISTRICT ANTI-CUTS ALLIANCE BULLETIN 30th March 2012 Still Time To Save The NHS First of all, let’s recognise that George Galloway‘s spectacular victory in the Bradford West by-election is a massive rejection of austerity and war no matter which of the three main parties are proposing them. There is an alternative. Here in [...]
Members of the University & College Union (UCU) and other local trade unionists held a protest at the City of Bristol College – College Green Campus last Wednesday 28th March in solidarity with National Union of Teachers (NUT) & UCU members in London who were holding a regional strike in defence of pensions. (Photo right.) [...]
BRISTOL & DISTRICT ANTI-CUTS ALLIANCE BULLETIN 23rd March 2012 Pensions Threatened, NHS Privatised, Care Homes Closed – What We Need Is An Elected Mayor While PCS and NUT members have given a resounding thumbs down to the pension changes demanded by the government, the union executives have decided against immediate national strike action in support [...]
BADACA Supporters Join Swindon March in Solidarity with GMB Carillion Strikers
By admin | March 21, 2012
More than 300 people, mainly employees of the firm Carillion and their families, marched in Swindon last Saturday in a lively and noisy demonstration to protest against bullying and harassment they have been subjected to by the company. One of the original PFI contract holders for the Great Western Hospital, Carillion is a private company [...]
Building on the success of protests in Bristol earlier in the month and in line with the international day of anti-capitalist action and national day of action against workfare, there will be a demonstration against workfare providers in Bristol City Centre on Saturday the 31st of March. Members of Bristol & District Anti Cuts Alliance, [...]
BRISTOL & DISTRICT ANTI-CUTS ALLIANCE BULLETIN 16th March 2012 Keep The NHS Public While we wait for final news of further action in the public sector pensions dispute – see details of the Pensions – The Fight Goes On meeting on 20th March, below – attention is turning to the fight to Defend the NHS [...]
BRISTOL & DISTRICT ANTI-CUTS ALLIANCE BULLETIN 9th March 2012 Official – South West Worst For Cuts Probably not too much of a shock to us, but figures from the Office of National Statistics show that the south west has suffered more from the loss of services and jobs caused by public sector cuts than any [...]
One in 14 public sector workers in the South West lost their jobs between July and September last year, according to new figures from the Office of National Statistics. A total of 37,000 workers – at seven per cent, the largest fall in the country – of those employed in the region by local government, [...]
On Saturday 3rd March around 60 people took to the streets of Bristol as part of the growing campaign against the government’s ‘workfare’ schemes. The Bristol protest was organised by campaign group Youth Fight for Jobs as part of a wider national day of action on the issue. Protesters also included activists from Boycott Workfare, the [...]
BRISTOL & DISTRICT ANTI-CUTS ALLIANCE BULLETIN 2nd March 2012 The Fight Goes On As expected, the LibDems and Tories combined to pass Bristol City Council‘s cuts budget on Tuesday. £27million will be slashed from the council’s spending from April. Youth services, community groups, care for the elderly and vulnerable will all be seriously effected. Over [...]