TEACHERS of English have bombarded a language school’s social-media accounts with demands to pay staff laid off following the coronavirus lockdown.
The Tefl Workers’ Union has called on its members and supporters to “say no to wage theft” by taking part in a week of online protests against Language House London.
The school closed on March 20 and has yet to pay its sacked staff their last month’s wages, according to staff and the union.
Claims that digital media has rendered press power obsolete are a dangerous myth, argues DES FREEDMAN
On the 40th anniversary of the Wapping dispute, this Morning Star special supplement traces the long-planned conspiracy that led to the mass sackings of printworkers in 1986 – a struggle whose unresolved injustices still demand redress today, writes ANN FIELD



