Just one week after issuing letters to parents putting 15 of 24 council-run Little Owls nurseries under threat, with 3 due to close as soon as May, the council issued a new letter to parents. They have now delayed the three proposed closures until August and have now setup an ‘engagement’ process with parents. Instead…
Parents were shocked to receive letters as they dropped their children off at council-run Little Owls nurseries across Leeds, letting them know whether they could face imminent closure. Without any prior consultation, the council are proposing closing three of the 24 nurseries as soon as May. And the future of a further 12 nurseries remain…
The GMB organised a lobby of Leeds City Council on 20th March. The lobby was led by GMB Special Educational Needs reps and supported by parents and Leeds Trades Council. SEND stands for Special Educational Needs and Disabilities but the reps have used the acronym for their demands for Safe staffing levels Evaluate for fair pay…
Over a hundred taxi and private hire drivers joined a lobby organised by the Leeds Private Hire Drivers Organisation (LPHDO) of Leeds City Council’s licensing committee over its Suitability and Convictions policy. This is one of a serious of priests in recent months around West Yorkshire over this and other issues facing drivers. Iain Dalton,…
Not one, but two groups of workers held lobbies of Leeds City Council at its March meeting on 23rd March. Iain Dalton, Leeds Socialist Party Unite and GMB members gathered to lobby councillors and hand in a petition against the energy-to-waste facility being constructed by Hitachi Zosen Inova outside the National Agreement for the Engineering…
Around 100 angry construction workers and their supporters marched on the Hitachi Zosen Inova site at Skelton Grange in South Leeds where a new energy to waste plant is being built with work being done outside the NAECI national construction agreement terms. Iain Dalton, Leeds Socialist Party GMB and Unite unions organised the march with…
Socialist Party members joined Unite taxi & private hire drivers, disabled taxi users and Unite Community activists in a protest outside Leeds Civic Hall in opposition to plans by the council and Network Rail to move the taxi rank outside the station as part of redevelopment plans. Iain Dalton, Leeds Socialist Party As Wasim, one…
Leeds Labour-run council has announced plans for massive cuts in services and jobs across the city in the coming months and year, on the basis of pressures on the council due to Covid-19. Michael Johnson, Leeds Socialist Party In September alone, the council made plans for cuts of around £32.6 million, with a reduction in…
The Covid-19 crisis has pushed councils up and down the country into a new financial crisis. The Centre for Progressive Policy thinktank expects eight out of ten tier-one local authorities to face the threat of bankruptcy. Labour-led Leeds City Council is the biggest of the councils to publicly raise this possibility. Iain Dalton, Leeds Socialist…
Around 50 people joined a midday march through Rothwell against plans to demolish around 70 ex-coal board homes on the Wordsworth and Sugar Hill estates in nearby Oulton. Iain Dalton, Leeds Socialist Party Thursday 26th July saw the Save Our Homes LS26 campaign and their supporters, including the NUM and the local Labour councillor for…
