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Angry probation officers flooded into Parliament in such numbers yesterday that an overflow committee room had to be commandeered for their anti-privatisation lobby.
MPs who hurried from one packed room to another were greeted with boisterous applause as they pledged support for the fight to stop privatisation of 70 per cent of the probation service.
Probation union Napo general secretary Ian Lawrence warned MPs that his members were so furious about the government's dangerous proposals that industrial action was now "a racing certainty."
Outsourcing is at the heart of inequality. Only collective unity in the trade union movement can topple the Establishment’s obsession with it, says SAM GURNEY
MARY DAVIS welcomes a remarkable documentary about the general strike — politically spot on, and featuring accounts from the strikers themselves — that is available for screenings
Witnessing a war of words at a meeting on tackling militarism at The World Transformed, BEN COWLES spoke to a union rep who is organising against war from inside the arms industry itself, to hear about worker-led solutions to ending weapons production
Our members face serious violence, crumbling workplaces and exposure to dangerous drugs — it is outrageous we still cannot legally use our industrial muscle to fight back and defend ourselves, writes STEVE GILLAN