Around 750,000 public sector workers will go on strike on Thursday 30 June to protest against government attacks on their pensions. Because of the variety of the pension schemes affected different groups of workers will lose different amounts, but they will all lose significantly. The unions involved are teaching unions the National Union of Teachers (NUT) and the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL); the civil service union the Public and

Barnet council's audit committee meets on Thursday 16 June to consider a report into the council's relationship with the MetPro security companies. This and another report looking at the council's overall capacity to deal with contract procurement and monitoring spell disaster if the council continues down the One Barnet road of mass outsourcing. Basically, the council's systems are in no fit shape to deal with outsourcing on the current scale let

Barnet Alliance public meeting Wednesday 8 June, 7-9pm, Greek Cypriot Community Centre, 2 Britannia Road, London N12 9RU We are focusing on the One Barnet (outsourcing) Programme (OBP), with explanations and discussion of how we can campaign against it. All welcome!