Bangladesh Tea Workers Threaten Indefinite Strike Over Pay
WORKERS in 23 tea gardens in Habiganj, Bangladesh will go on indefinite strike and block the highways if their demands are not met by...
Over 135,000 workers take strike action across Germany – in France...
Germany’s Ernährung, Gastronomie, Genuss (NGG) union has announced it will step up strike action after negotiations with the Bundesverband der Systemgastronomie (BdS) over a...
Macron Government Is Mobilising Against Railworkers!
THE MACRON government is mobilising against the Gradual Cessation of Activity Agreement signed at the SNCF because it will allow French railway workers to...
San Francisco teachers hold their first strike in 47 years!
‘Thousands of public school teachers in San Francisco went on strike on Monday, the first public (state) school teachers strike in the city in...
Irish Teachers Ready To Strike Over Pay
17,000 secondary school teachers are set to go on strike over the Irish government’s plans to cut their pay and allowances. The Association of Secondary...
‘Get Ready For A Stayaway!’ Zimbabwe Trade Unions Instruct Their Members
‘Get Ready For A Stayaway,’ the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) General Council has instructed its member organisations. In a statement last Saturday, ZCTU...
Nurses rise up to demand 15%
‘WHAT do we want? Pay rise! How will we get it? Strike!’ shouted over 200 nurses and NHS workers marching from St Thomas’ Hospital...
‘Workers on legally protected strikes shot and detained!’ – SAFTU
AROUND 150 workers from Dis-Chem and Blue Ribbon Bakeries, as well as union officials, marched to Cape Town central police station last Wednesday to...
Occupy movements and trades unions take action in the US
‘We are the 99 per cent. We are getting kicked out of our homes. We are forced to choose between groceries and rent,’ says...
Massive Palestinian protest against Israeli violence
HUNDREDS of Palestinians held a mass demonstration throughout the Israeli-occupied territories to express their deep resentment over the rising levels of violent attacks on...
Nigeria electricity workers commence indefinite strike
The Senior Staff Association of Electricity and Allied Companies and the National Union of Electricity Employees (SSAEAC) at the Kano Electricity Distribution Company in...
THE GREAT MINERS STRIKE 1984-85 – PART FIVE: Support for WRP...
NOVEMBER 1984 opened with a miners’ special delegate conference endorsing a plan to widen the dispute throughout the labour and trade union movement. That demand...
Canadian Postal Union Fighting To Overturn Strike Ban
THE CANADIAN Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) filed a constitutional challenge last week to block legislation ordering them back to work, passed by the...
More Than 100,000 A&E Patients Waited For More Than Four Hours...
MORE than 100,000 A&E patients waited for hours to be treated in hospitals in January, the highest number since records began, NHS figures show. There...
Iran makes no distinction between Israeli regime and Takfiri terrorists
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi arrived in the Syrian capital on Sunday to reaffirm Tehran’s firm support for Damascus amid the surprise offensive by...
‘Our fight goes on!’ say Vestas workers
‘What do we want – nationalisation, now! Organise, occupy, fight for the right to work!’ shouted over three hundred sacked Vestas workers and their...
Demonstrations across France against law banning the filming of police
FRENCH riot police have been condemned over violently dispersing protesters in Paris demonstrating against a new security bill (the PPL Securite Globale) which bans...
South African court bans Johannesburg bus strike
SOUTH Africa bus service Rea Vaya operator, PioTrans, last Thursday secured an interdict banning 179 employees from embarking on an unprotected strike and continuing...
‘MARCH IN YOUR MILLIONS’ – Defiant Gadaffi urges masses
IN a live speech to the Libyan people over Libyan state Al-Jamahiriyah TV last Tuesday the, Libyan Leader Muammar al-Gadaffi said that...
Angry South African workers march on municipal offices!
THE South African Municipal Workers Union (Samwu) held a demonstration on Thursday marching to the Midvaal Municipal offices, south of Johannesburg, in protest against...
Scotland’s A&Es ‘on the brink’ warns Royal College of Emergency Medicine...
THE NHS in Scotland is ‘on the brink’ as A&E hospital waiting times are the worst since records of them began, the Royal College...
South African Farmworkers Facing Hunger Two Weeks Into Lockdown!
ON April 9th South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that the lockdown to disrupt the transmission of Covid-19 in the country would be ‘extended...
‘OBSCENE’ VENTURE CAPITALISTS – says GMB
After a £1.3 billion cash strip, the claim that Debenhams is worth double what the venture capitalists paid for it in 2003 is grotesque,...
Stop east London GP surgery closures!
EAST London GPs, patients and supporters on Thursday staged a protest in Limehouse against cuts in funding that threaten to bankrupt around a dozen...
Greek civil servants take strike action while Turkey erupts against Erdogan!
A 48 HOUR strike by civil servants in Greece was launched yesterday as the government negotiates further austerity measures with the troika. This followed...
‘TRADE UNIONS MUST TAKE ACTION WITH THE POSTAL WORKERS TO DEFEND...
THE trade unions must take joint action with the postal workers to defend their members’ jobs and basic rights. They must go forward to bring...
Only BA renationalisation can defend wages and jobs – Part Two
BRITISH Airways workers are faced with taking strike action to defeat the management onslaught on their jobs, terms and conditions. BA boss Walsh has issued...
Sa Workers Take To The Streets
THE SOUTH African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) said last Wednesday 25 April 2018 will be recorded in the history of the South African...
Airport workers strike in Argentina – while Milei pursued for arrest...
Airport workers carried out an 11-hour strike at 27 airports in Argentina on Thursday. The action took place in two slots, between 6am and 12...
Day 16 of strike action against academisation
TEACHERS and pupils at The John Roan School in Greenwich took their 16th day of strike action to stop its privatisation. The school is being...
Italy’s broadcaster RAI holds 24-hour strike against the ‘stifling control’ exercised...
JOURNALISTS at Italy’s public broadcaster RAI held a 24-hour national strike on Monday to protest against the ‘stifling control’ exercised over their work by...
‘This is the last May Day to be stolen’ – says...
‘THIS is the last May Day to be stolen. It has been used for electioneering and workers are being fed lies and given promises...
US releases frozen aid to Colombia – Rights groups slam ‘blatantly...
Three days before Colombian President Uribe was scheduled to meet with President Bush on August 4th at his Crawford, Texas ranch, the State Department...
THERE MUST BE ‘A FULL RECRUITMENT INTO EMERGENCY MEDICINE’ – essential...
THE College of Emergency Medicine on Monday announced guidelines titled Creating satisfaction and maintaining wellbeing in Emergency Medicine. The College of Emergency Medicine said in...
CARILLION MUST COMPENSATE 224 BLACKLISTED WORKERS says GMB
THE GMB has called a meeting in Stafford on November 13th to mobilise opposition to the outsourcing of Staffordshire Education Support Services (ESS) and...
Cardiff UCU staff vote 83% for strike action against huge job...
CARDIFF University staff have overwhelmingly backed industrial action in a fight against huge job cuts, the University and College Union (UCU) announced on Tuesday...
OVERWORKED & UNDERPAID – New EPI study shows teachers are being...
A NEW report on local pay and teacher retention in England, published at the beginning of the week by the Education Policy Institute (EPI),...
TUC silent over the massive crisis of the EU
THE TUC’s head of European Union and International Relations Department, Owen Tudor, has recently given a lengthy interview to the internet EurActiv which specialises...
We are going to the Security Council to seek full UN...
THE PLO will in September approach the UN Security Council to seek full membership in the global body, President Mahmud Abbas said on Wednesday. ‘We...
NUMSA prepares Easter bus strike in SA
Employers in bus wage talks in South Africa claim that the trade union’s wage demands are ‘unaffordable’, setting the stage for a strike struggle...
‘HELL NO!’ to US postal privatisation – Defend 8 million affected...
THOUSANDS of workers across the United States have hit the streets to say ‘Hell No!’ to dismantling the postal service. The National Association of Letter...
BUSH TOLD ‘STOP TAX CUTS’ – as over 200,000 refugees...
LOUISIANA authorities say they now have control over the capital New Orleans and have restored law and order, almost a week after the chaos...
END ‘INJUSTICE AND BIAS AGAINST ARAB NATION’ – urges Hamas
The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas, last Thursday condemned the London blasts, urging an end to the ‘injustice and bias against the Arab nation’. Commenting...
THE PEOPLE OF GAZA MUST NOT BE LEFT TO THEIR FATE...
THE Lebanese Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah issued a strong warning to Israel in his Ashura Day address in Beirut, last Saturday. Speaking on this...
The month of May – a graveyard for journalists in Gaza
Palestinian officials say Israeli forces have killed at least 219 journalists and media workers since the regime’s genocidal war started in the Gaza Strip...