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Kirklees Sure Start children centres lobby Kirklees council's budget meeting, photo Huddersfield Socialist Party
7 March 2012
Kirklees marches to save child centres
Around 100 angry parents and their children demonstrated through the streets of Huddersfield on Saturday 3 March against Kirklees council's proposals to mothball half of the 32 children's centres, writes Mike Forster.
29 February 2012
Kirklees Sure Start children centres
"Kirklees council looks set for U-turn on proposal to downgrade children's centres" proclaimed the headline in Huddersfield's local paper, writes Jackie Grunsell, Huddersfield Socialist Party.
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.
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...
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...
29 March 2007
Determined campaigners win reprieve
Kirklees nurseries: KIRKLEES COUNCIL in west Yorkshire has been threatening to close three nurseries, Tiddlywinks, Cambridge Road and Sankofa...
8 March 2007
IN KIRKLEES council, the Tory administration's budget for next year included plans to close three children's nurseries in Huddersfield. ...
19 July 2003
Kirklees Nursery nurses: United Action Gave Us Confidence
KIRKLEES NURSERY nurses recently won a regrading battle through strike action. Like their fellow workmates in Tower Hamlets, this victory was only achieved by a hard-hitting and united combination of strikes,...
15 June 2001
Kirklees nursery nurses: Labour's Low Pay Scandal
ON 16 JUNE, nursery nurses in Kirklees, Yorkshire will once again be taking to the streets to collect more signatures in support of their local pay claim...
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