Rachel joined striking bin workers at Leeds Civic Council yesterday. Councils up and down the country have implemented the equal pay act without strikes, but in Leeds the Tory-Lib Dem coalition seem intent of cutting the pay of some of our lowest paid workers by a staggering £6,000. Another signal of what the Tories ‘age of austerity’ will look like – with working class families taking the hit.

Rachel, pictured above with Labour Group leader Keith Wakefield and Cllr Bernard Atha, has written an article on the wider impacts of Tory plans, you can access it here.