Tower Hamlets College Strikers celebrate their victory at Jobs, Education, Peace protest at Labour Party Conference
Around two thousand marchers, including a large group who had come on a specially chartered train from London as well as many from further away, made their views clear to the Labour Party in a march and rally outside the centre where the Party was in conference at Brighton on Sunday. Called by trade unions and pressure groups - the UCU, NUJ, PCS, NUT, CWU and RMT, Right to Work, Stop the War and Unite Against Fascism - they demanded a change in direction over proposals to cut public expenditure. The big news for the march was that the strike at Tower Hamlets College by members of the University and College Union to save jobs there had been successful. After almost a month on strike, an agreement to avoid 25 compulsory redundancies there was reached in talks at the arbitration service ACAS and announced the previous day. The proposed cuts would have reduced or closed services to some of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged people in our society. The message from Tower Hamlets was clear "We Fought & We Won." Also at the front of the march and in the marchers thoughts were workers from Vestas Blades, inexplicably abandoned by the government when the management decided to close this vital green industry down in the Isle of White and move production to the USA
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