The Socialist 10 October 2012

Tories promise more pain ... Kick out the 'nasty party'!

Tories promise more pain... Kick out the 'nasty party'!

Labour Party conference - not fighting austerity

Arguing the case for a 24-hour general strike

Birmingham Tory conference demo

'Millions crying out for leadership and for an alternative'

Anti-austerity candidates selected for November contests

No welfare cuts

Health workers must fight attacks on jobs and pay

Politicians line up to attack abortion rights

The hidden homeless - "Sofa surfing is my lot"

Them & Us

Send the transport privatisers packing

Venezuela presidential election

Greece: escalating the action against austerity

South Africa: 'What are we doing about this government that is killing us?'

Why we're marching on 20 October

More success for Socialist Students

Save East Midlands ambulances

Campaign Kazakhstan: A musical and political evening

Youth Fight for Jobs and Education fortnight of action 13-27 October

Dewsbury fights health service cuts

Waltham Forest: Parents and staff unite against school sell-off

Sunderland anti-fascists stand up against divisive EDL

South Wales bus workers receive strong support for strike

Fighting the construction industry blacklist

Workplace nurseries saved in HMRC

Leeds solidarity with Crossrail battle

Mid Yorkshire Health admin staff ballot for strike

Bin workers' strike threat

Workplace news in brief

TV review : Masters of Money - Karl Marx




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Workplace nurseries saved in HMRC

A PCS member

Leicester PCS strike action: workplace nurseries saved in HMRC through action by PCS members , photo Steve Score (Click to enlarge)

Following a month of solid and well-organised campaigning, two workplace nurseries in the revenue and customs civil service department (HMRC) have been saved from closure. PCS union members in East Kilbride and Cardiff have achieved a massive victory.

This is in spite of the department categorically stating the decision could not be reversed.

In the current climate of blaming the poor and low paid for all the worlds' ills, this victory shows we can fight back against these types of attacks.

Six other nurseries are now under threat of closure by 30 November but PCS members in Leicester, Leeds, Salford and Nottingham are continuing their campaign.

Boosted by the victories in East Kilbride and Cardiff, they will be organising more protest actions over the next week - culminating in a further day of action on 17 October.

PCS members in HMRC will be taking their protest to Whitehall to coincide with a planned lobby of parliament on the day.

With 80% of the cuts still to come, parents, and women in the main, will be expected to bear the brunt.

We need to be developing campaigns and key demands within the trade union movement to take up these issues.

We will build on this important campaign and make it increasingly difficult for our employer to roll back all the gains made for family friendly workplaces.