OVER 20,000 students demonstrated against cuts in their living standards and educational facilities on February 12th.
The demonstration had been called from a London NUS-organised activists conference in response to the biggest wave of student action since the anti-loans campaign. union AUT and Tony Benn. Stephen Twigg, the president of NUS also spoke and was continually heckled and booed by the students present, who clearly felt that the NUS leadership had failed to offer them anything.
Students were demanding a decent grant; restoration of benefit entitlements, affordable accommodation, restoration of education services that have been cut (i.e. libraries, teaching staff, support staff etc, and an extension of these services to meet the growing number of students.
On March 3rd and 4th, the NUS leadership will be holding a "Reform Conference to seek ratification for its proposals to cut one of NUS's conferences. All students must mobilise to ensure that this attack on the democracy of the NUS is defeated. VAUXHALL car workers have overwhelmingly rejected management attempts to attach strings to their latest 5 per cent pay offer.
Transoort and General Workers Union (TGWU) members at Ellesmere Port - the largest union in the plant -voted by 3-1 in favour of strike action.
Despite increased profits. Vauxhall are attemoung to pash anedo win Kical negotiations and attacks on working 300 Club Speakers at the rally included a representative from the teachers' Vauxhall workers win strike ballot conditions. Team working - otherwise known as japanisation - has already been introduced. But the TGWU claim that it has been There is a long road between introduc tion of team working and making i stick' the union office said. Now the TGWU has a clear man. Luton look Ikely to endorse the move. Students on the march against poverty AEU engineers at Ellesmere Port and Luton are also expected to rojoct the The only stumbling block has been the EETPU, whose members voted to accept the deal, but there is now going to be a fight to reverse the vote.
The first move looks like being an overtime ban. AEU and TGWU workers should argue to escalate the Hello to the working class! ISN'T IT old-fashioned to GEC strikers sold ouf INTIMIDATED by management and undermined by national union offcials, 400 strikers at GEC Alsthom in Manchester have voted 2-1 to return to work.
Echoing the situation facing the GEC workers were threatened with the sack if the action continued. And offiBut identification of themselves as working class' seems Photo: Andrew Ward cials from the engineering and ship. building workers' federation, the (SEU, let it be known that they thought the strike was heading for disaster.
In this stuation shop stowards at Higher Openshaw were unable to tum the tide, despite an impressive tracition a classic example of a real opportunity lost.
he ace workers nad mantaned pressure on the company, operating a 24-hour picket and touring the country to win support. GEC itsel was not invulneraba: the company that fust won