THURSDAY MAY 12TH @ 12pm

HALLWARD LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY PARK.

Meet at 11am outside Office Angels (located in the city centre past the right lion. Next door to MAC and opposite The Square bar/club)

Angel House,

12-13 Cheapside,

City Centre,

Nottingham,

NG1 2HU

On Wednesday May 4th, Notts County Unison organised a small lobby at short notice outside County Hall where the cabinet was to meet.

Mark Howard the Notts Branch Chair said, "This morning we highlighted the plight of 8 disabled care homes 'partnership homes', The forced redundancies of the Play workers and the coming attacks on our pensions. Even with short notice we can still muster a presence t…

May 1st has been marked as a celebration on international working class movements for over a century. Nottingham held a march and rally, starting at Victoria Park in Sneinton on April 30th. Elsewhere in the East Midlands, Derby held its annual commemoration of the Silk Mill lockout on April 30th and Chesterfield held a Mayday march and rally on Monday May 2nd.

On the newswire: Chesterfield M…

On Monday May 2nd, Chesterfield held its annual Mayday demonstration.

On Saturday April 30th, Nottingham celebrated International Worker's Day.

Rushcliffe MP and Minister for "Justice" Ken Clarke has announced plans to privatise Birmingham Prison. There are already a number of privatised prisons in the UK, but this would be the first previously public sector prison to move into the private sector.

Courtyard Outside

1 Standard Court,

Park Row,

Nottingham,

NG1 6GN

The half a million who marched and took action in London on Saturday 26th Match made our feelings known and we showed our strength. Those who are active in Notts SOS and from the many other anti-cuts groups around the country, together with all manner of service users and welfare and pension recipients, workers, students, families and children took to the streets to say no to the cuts.

The press …

Thursday 24th March 2011

At 3.30pm staff and students of courses for 'English for speakers of other languages' gathered in the Market Square for a protest rally.

Thursday 24th March 2011

At 11.00am, members of the University and College Union gathered in market Square for a rally.

I interviewed Bruce, a lecturer in Economics at Trent University to get a better idea of what the dispute was about. I think it's fair to say that Bruce's views are closer to  social democracy than our own, none the less we think it gives valuable insight both to what is happening at the university and across the sector.



What is this dispute about officially? And what else are strikers angry abo…

Members of Nottingham AF today were down on the picket lines at Nottingham and Trent universities, as lecturers on strike and as students and fellow workers showing their support. This was following UCU members decision to come out on strike.

Where the needs of capital  and the needs of us as workers clash, as they always will, we always support workers in their choice to withdraw their labour. A…

Yesterday, 22nd March 2011, was the first day of strike action by members of the University and College Union in England including lecturers, researchers, admin and library staff from 47 universities taking strike action in defence of their USS pension scheme. Strikes in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland took place last Thursday & Friday, and yesterday. Picket lines were formed at all entrances…

Nottingham Mechanics

3 North Sherwood Street

Old Market Square, Nottingham

"Nottingham staff and students have mounted a united campaign at our local universities and colleges to support University and College Union strike action on the 22nd and 24th of March (Tuesday & Thursday next week in Nottingham)" (Notts SOS)

Victoria Park, Bath Street, Sneinton, near Sneinton Market.

Photos taken during Nottingham City Council's budget meeting on 7th March 2011.

On Thursday 24th February, Unison members at Nottinghamshire County Council were out on strike against £150 million budget cuts. The strike was timed to coincide with the council meeting where the budget was to be set. The union also organised a march across Trent Bridge and a rally in front of County Hall.

Nottinghamshire is the first council in the UK to experience strike action in respon…

On February 24th Nottinghamshire County Council met to set its budget. Unison members at the council were on strike, to coincide with this the union organised a march across Trent Bridge and a rally in front of County Hall.

On February 24th Nottinghamshire County Council met to set its budget. Unison members at the council were on strike and the union also organised a march and rally.

On Thursday 24 February, Unison members at Nottinghamshire County Council were out on strike against £150 million budget cuts. The strike was timed to coincide with the council meeting where the budget was to be set.

The maze, Mansfield Road, Nottingham.

Nottingham City Council are planning to cut tens of millions from their spending in the year from April 2011.

On Saturday 19th February, the Communication Workers Union (CWU) organised a Keep the Post Public demonstration in Beeston.

The 3rd National Day of Protest Against Benefit Cuts has been called for April 14th 2011.