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News Desk - Update RMT add support to student protests - 10:40am
Students from all over the UK will try and "shut down" London on Thursday when MPs are expected to vote for the controversial increase in tuition fees. Demonstrations are expected to take place all over the capital, with protests including schools being blocked, workplaces disrupted, in what student protests groups have called "an attempt to maximise impact".
The NUS and ULU are not believed to be supporting protests on Thursday that will include "direct action" protest methods, with focus given to lobbying MPs and an official march on Parliament on Thursday.
The groups behind the protests are believed to be a left wing organisations under the umbrella group "National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts".
Other trade union organisations are being asked to support students on Thursday, with one student at London's Metropolitan University claiming to The London Daily News, that Thursday should be "unique" in terms of the scale of protests. Wanting to remain anonymous the London Metropolitan student said:
"We are all fired up, we must go for broke, and we cannot allow the hikes in student fees to pass". The RMT has called on its members and the entire trade union movement to get out on the streets this week in full support of the student fees protests and to pile the pressure on Lib Dem MP’s as the first signs of major cracks in the ConDem coalition begin to open up. “Last week students supported our tube members on their picket lines and this week we will be out shoulder to shoulder with the students in their protests over the jacking up of tuition fees."
“It is essential that the entire Labour and Trade Union Movement gives full support to the student protests – this extraordinary grass roots movement has caught the ConDems on the hop and when your enemy is reeling you don’t give them a chance to regroup, you mobilise the maximum pressure that you can and that’s what RMT is doing right now."
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