The Conservative Party Conference is taking place at Manchester in October.  Disabled People Against the Cuts are organising two protests on Monday 5th and Wednesday 7th October during the week of the Tory party conference actions, and would like to support as many DPAC members to come to Manchester and attend our demonstrations, the details of the actions can be found here. Many of DPAC members need additional support in order to travel and take

Beat this post-election depression! Join the 4th March for the Libraries from South Friern library to North Finchley library, via East Finchley and Church End libraries. You can join the march at any of the libraries, see the route map and time table here. 11 am - South Friern library 12 noon - East Finchley library 12:30 Church End library marching to North Finchley library Get into the spirit with the sound of music by Finchley Literary Festival's

A public meeting hosted by Save Mill Hill Library group. On the panel will be authors Deborah Moggach and SF Said alongside Andrew Dismore AM, Matthew Offord MP and other local politicians. RVSP here. SIGN THE PETITION NO TO CLOSURE OF BARNET LIBRARIES With a current total of 6,383 signatures online and on paper, we are almost at that Golden 7,000. If reached we will be able to dominate proceedings at the Full Council Meeting ensuring Councillors

Join us in Hendon Town Hall at 6 pm on Tuesday 2 December, where we will help Barnet Council hand a few more of our services to Capita in the run up to Christmas. These services include: Library Services, Education & Skills, Early Years Children’s Centres, Education & Catering, Adult Social Care (social workers) and Street Scene (which consists of refuse & recycling, street cleansing, parks etc). See here for details.

Here is some background and explanations that everyone should know, copied from Barnet Unison's website: In the local press the YCB chief executive said “The rates of pay for Adult Social Care are a national issue”,  Yes we agree There is a national social care crisis AND Doncaster Care UK dispute is evidence of this BUT there is a local crisis in relation to how care workers are treated. To those who want to know what has driven care workers

It is outrageous that the dedicated and hard working Support Workers of YCB should be forced to take a 9.5% pay cut in addition to all the other changes in their terms and conditions of employment.  We thoroughly support their brave decision to strike against these harsh decisions of the board of YCB.  We condemn the irresponsibility of the London Borough of Barnet, who allowed YCB to be created with a flawed Business Plan that could only cause

“I let out contracts myself to various customers and what I learnt in the contract is the word change or variance, because I know they are tied into me for the contract and this where I make all my profit and make up for the low price at the beginning”... (Cllr Hugh Rayner at Business Management Overview and Scrutiny Committee 24th October, 2012) Little did we know when we heard those words from the public gallery during one of the One Barnet

New video released today 7 May 2014 highlights the grim reality of life under One Barnet Tory regime, only two weeks before our chance to replace the Conservatives with a more humane council, on the 22 May local elections. Read BAPS press release here. Watch on YouTube And here are the lyrics of the song.

Barnet council's trade unions, like trade unions and workers across the country, are under a severe attack (see the post Stop the attack on Barnet trade unions below). Barnet Alliance, along with residents and users of the public services whose workers are being so brutally attacked by pay cuts, redundancies and curbing of their workplace representation, stand in solidarity with the trade unions who fight to defend the livelihood and living standards

Missed the first You Ask the Questions meeting? Read about it here, and watch the BBC Sunday Politics Show report(26/1/14) about the effects of cutting Barnet Council Tax by 43 pence per week. The report features parts of our public meeting as well.   Standing at the back of the packed hall in Edgware, I met all those people who left the public meeting disappointed at the absence of the Conservatives. 'What's the point?' asked a woman who had