On 18 November, library workers across Lambeth walked out of work to protest at the Council’s refusal to listen to concerns over libraries closures, including controversial plans to turn three libraries into fee-charging gyms run by Greenwich Leisure Limited.
Hundreds of Lambeth workers and residents came together to march from Brixton Library to South Lambeth Library on Saturday 7 November to protest against cuts and closures to their library service.
14 October 2015
| Gemma Short, Charlotte Zalens and Peggy Carter
Service controllers on London Underground strike for regrading; IWGB wins couriers living wage; Barnet Council workers strike again over privatisation; Lambeth council to make library staff redundant; win at Sellafield.
Barnet’s Tory councillors, determined to push through devastating cuts to Barnet’s libraries, were met with a lively and defiant protest on Monday 12 October.
The Tories are planning on making the biggest cuts in departmental spending: an overall cut of 7.1% by 2019, reducing such spending to its lowest level in real terms since 2003
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