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25 January 2012
Kirklees parents say 'save our children's centres!'
Towards the end of last year, the Labour-led Kirklees council in Yorkshire announced a consultation over the future of 32 Sure Start centres, writes Mike Forster.
9 February 2011
Yorkshire: organising the student movement
Calderdale and Kirklees: The launch meeting of the Calderdale and Kirklees Student Assembly (CKSA) took place on Sunday 30 January in Halifax, writes Katie Bates, Secretary CKSA.
18 January 2011
The way forward for students at Leeds Trinity
Updated on 28/1/11 On Saturday 15 January around 40 local people, students, socialists and lecturers, attended a public meeting organised by the Leeds Trinity University College (LTUC) occupiers to discuss the cuts at the university and in the wider community
12 January 2011
Kirklees council: First round victory in cuts battle
On 7 January, at one of the biggest stewards' meetings in Kirklees Unison branch's history, the branch voted to call off the planned five-day strike which had been endorsed by a mass ballot of the 7,500 strong membership only two weeks earlier, writes Mike Forster.
Kirklees Save Our services trade union protest against cuts , photo Huddersfield Socialist Party
17 November 2010
Kirklees - fighting £400 million budget cut
After months of delays and deliberation by the leadership of Unison both locally and regionally, Kirklees Unison has voted to ballot for strike action against cuts and redundancies, a Unison member writes.
15 November 2010
Kirklees Unison balloting against £400 million budget cut
After months of delays and deliberation by the leadership of Unison both locally and regionally, Kirklees Unison has voted to ballot for strike action...
27 October 2010
Youth Fight for Jobs and Socialist Students day of action
Goldsmiths University: The Comprehensive Spending Review on 20 October announced cuts that will be detrimental to the future of young people across the country...
24 August 2010
Kirklees Unison strike ballot launched
Kirklees Unison has launched a formal industrial action ballot, to begin strike action in September to challenge the council's swingeing cuts, Huddersfield Socialist Party members write.
10 August 2010
Kirklees strike action looms closer
Kirklees Unison has launched a formal industrial action ballot, to begin strike action in September to challenge the council's headlong rush into some of the most swingeing cuts in living memory...
2 June 2010
Fighting council cuts: Planning for united strikes in Kirklees
LOCAL GOVERNMENT jobs and services are under attack. Local councils will have £2 billion less in grants from central government after the first £6 billion Con-Dem government cutbacks. The threat is angering...
21 April 2010
Colne Valley / Huddersfield: Kirklees' only fighting councillor
SOCIALIST PARTY member Jackie Grunsell was elected to Kirklees council in 2006 after a campaign to protect local health services...
3 March 2010
The savage implications of the cuts-cuts-cuts mantra of New Labour, Tories and the LibDems are clear even before the general election...
Jackie Grunsell, Save Huddersfield NHS campaign councillor and Socialist Party member, photo Alison Hill
30 September 2009
Organise action to save services: "Any managers of a public service who are not planning now on the basis that they will have substantially less money to spend in two year's time are living in cloud cuckoo land." These are the chilling words of the chief executive of the Audit Commission, writes Jackie Grunsell, Defend NHS councillor and Socialist Party member, Huddersfield.
28 January 2009
Socialist councillor opposes Tory plans for education privatisation
Last week's Kirklees council meeting brought in a new Liberal/Labour coalition administration after a vote of 'no confidence' in the ruling minority Tory cabinet took place, writes Jackie Grunsell, Save Huddersfield NHS councillor.
5 November 2008
Victory over Tory school closure plan
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Part of the Mirfield protest in Kirklees against a school closure forced a u-turn, photo J Grunsell |
22 October 2008
Kirklees: The battle to save our schools heats up
After last week's humiliating vote at the Kirklees council meeting, where the ruling Tory cabinet was defeated by a two-to-one margin over its Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme, a war of words has now broken out between the three main parties, writes Mike Forster.
15 October 2008
Opposition grows to Kirklees schools plans
Government plans for academies have arrived in Kirklees, Yorkshire, in the form of their misnamed Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme, writes Mike Forster, chief education steward Kirklees Unison, personal capacity.
23 April 2008
How can we defeat the far right?
The far-right, racist British National Party (BNP) is hoping to gain a seat on the Greater London Assembly on 1 May, as well as more councillors round the country. The Socialist outlines Socialist answers to the far-right.
16 April 2008
Health campaigners fight council cuts
Huddersfield: THE SOCIALIST Party in Huddersfield is now deep into its third straight year of election campaigning, writes A Huddersfield Socialist Party member.
6 February 2008
Protests as multinational grabs health centre
AROUND 120 patients, health care workers and members of the public protested at St Paul's Way Medical Centre, the day before the Primary Care Trust (PCT) handed it over to multinational private company Atos Origin... By Liz Cowell
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