Picketing in the dark is often something done by those on night shifts, but at Redcar and Cleveland College, on the last day of November 2011, the picket line of UCU members and representatives started well before sunrise and this photo has been described by UCU Head Office as “I think, one of the…
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Darlington College TPS Protest
Members from Darlington College (the College was closed for the day) outside Mowden Hall where all the teaching unions were present to demonstrate their opposition to proposed changes to TPS which has its administrative HQ at Mowden Hall.
Cleveland College of Art and Design 30.11.11
UCU members and representatives at CCAD welcomed NEC member Dave O’Toole and Regional Support Official Jon Bryan to their picket lines on Wednesday. There was a good turnout for the picket at the College, braving the cold weather to stand up for pensions! Branch representative Francis Fitzgerald thanks all those memebrs who supported the…
Gateshead/Newcastle March and Rally 30th November 2011
An estimated 8500 people marched from Gateshead Civic Centre down over the Tyne and on to Spillers Wharf on Wednesday to the cheers and clapping of onlookers along the route. Speakers from many of the Unions involved addressed the crowd at Spillers Wharf where marchers gathered with an array of flags and banners to brighten…
Middlesbrough College picket line
Middlesbrough College UCU members and representatives were back on the picket line again – but this time were joined by UNISON. Making sure that every entrance was covered, the pickets started early on what was a cold morning, but were kept in good spirits by the small number of people going into the building and…
Darlington College Picket Lines get a VIP visit!
Pickets were up and ready to start at 7.00a.m. at Darlington College as UCU members showed the strength of feeling about attacks to pay and pensions. Around 100 members took strike action and a quarter of those turned up on the picket lines to show to others why we were taking action. Those who came…