The Socialist 3 March 2010

Fighting for jobs, services and conditions

PCS: All Out to Defend Jobs and Services

Stop council cuts

Invest in jobs, education & Training

Cut the working hours, not the jobs!

Portsmouth students and workers unite to fight cuts

Brighton students say: Save our nursery

EMA inadequacy impacts badly on students

Building action across Europe

Greece - millions take part in general strike

Spain: Thousands join mass demonstrations

The fairytale world of RBS

Nationalise the energy giants

Activists launch socialist challenge

Walsgrave hospital Coventry: Stop the parking charges rip-off

Fast news

Where is the BA cabin crew dispute going?

Smash the bosses' construction blacklist!

Leeds lecturers win concessions - but cuts remain to be fought

Workplace news: In brief

Unison general secretary election: Nominate Roger Bannister

Legal ruling exposes hypocrisy of Unison leadership

FBU general secretary speaks to The Socialist

Women will be at the fore in the fightback!

Global media monster News International condemned

The hounding of Tommy Sheridan

Savage cuts planned at the Beeb

Supporters should own Pompey, not developers

The worldwide thievery of big business

Previous issues, etc

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Leeds lecturers win concessions - but cuts remain to be fought

After last minute ACAS talks and an emergency Leeds UCU meeting on 24 February, a series of three UCU strikes at Leeds University have been called off. Management have made some concessions, including a new negotiations structure and a suspension of compulsory redundancies in the Faculty of Biological Sciences (FBS) until January 2011. This is something of a victory from a university management which unilaterally pulled out of ACAS talks a few weeks ago.

But the £35 million in cuts, around 10% of each department's budget, remain. The mandate for action has been extended by four weeks, meaning the union can restart the strikes if the talks fail.

These gains have been won by the determined stand of UCU members. If the other campus unions, Unison and Unite, had joined in, much more could have been won.

There is a day of action against the cuts on 4 March, with a rally at 1pm in Victoria Gardens.