Eu ‘Harbours Serious Concerns’ Over Sri Lanka’s Rights Abuses
The European Union (EU) has expressed serious concern over Sri Lanka’s rights abuses, TamilNet reported yesterday. In a press release issued on Tuesday, the EU...
Wells Fargo employees ballot for union recognition
In a remarkable series of events, Wells Fargo employees from Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Bethel, Alaska, are spearheading the bank’s first-ever union elections. This historic...
3,000 Boston University workers begin indefinite strike for pay, healthcare and...
The SEIU union that represents over 3,000 Boston University (BU) graduate student workers started an indefinite strike on Monday. The decision came a week after...
Fonseka To Be Court-Martialled
Retired Major General Sarath Fonseka will be tried over five charges under Army Act at a court martial within the next few days, Military...
175th ANNIVERSARY OF THE GREAT DEMONSTRATION OF 1834 TO FREE THE...
APRIL 21 saw the 175th anniversary of the Grand Demonstration of 1834 when over 100,000 marched from Copenhagen Fields in London to Parliament to...
Dozens die in latest Gaza strikes!
ISRAELI warplanes carried out renewed attacks across the Gaza Strip yesterday, killing at least 26 Palestinians in a series of airstrikes, including an entire...
AMCU secures reinstatement of 579 sacked members!
THE Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) said on Thursday it had successfully secured the reinstatement of 579 of its members dismissed in...
One year on . . . Remploy workers remain jobless!
A GMB union survey has found that the majority of Remploy workers did not get another job, one year on from the last of...
Four Seasons ‘The Son Of Southern Cross’ Warns Gmb
SEVENTY-ONE former Southern Cross Care Homes in the UK were being transferred to new operator Four Seasons on Monday (31 October 2011). These are the...
‘ISRAELI GOVERNMENT RESPONSIBLE FOR SETTLER TERRORISM’ – Hanan Ashrawi
MEMBER of the PLO Executive Committee, Hanan Ashrawi, said on Saturday evening that the Israeli government and its allies are responsible for rise in...
‘Teamster Women Are Going To Take Back America’
TEAMSTERS General President Jim Hoffa addressed the hundreds of Teamster women gathered in New York City on Saturday for the second day of the...
Zimbabwe trade unions ‘itching for mass action’ to be paid in...
THE OPPOSITION Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has joined forces with the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) to push for salaries in United...
‘We demand a Palestinian state’ says President Abbas
PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas announced during a meeting in Cairo on Saturday that the focus of the Paris International Peace Conference would be centred...
SAVE JOBS AND SAVE OUR ECONOMY – UNITE HERE urges Obama
Today, January 20th, UNITE HERE will launch its UNITE HERE for Change campaign, an ‘effort to work with President Obama and Congress to make...
Palestinians killed, wounded and gassed by Israeli forces
NEWS about the killing of a Palestinian youth by Israeli forces during clashes in the village of Urif, to the south of Nablus in...
Female doctors take on extra work to fight Covid – RCN...
Female doctors say they have ‘felt compelled to step up’ during the pandemic, even though they knew they were at risk, as BMA research shows that they...
Israel to demolish 15 Palestinian homes in West Bank
ISRAEL yesterday notified Palestinians in the town of Yatma, south of Nablus, in the northern occupied West Bank, of its intention to demolish their...
Occupations and strikes are sweeping through Canada!
OCCUPATIONS, strike votes and rallies by health and care workers are sweeping Canada as trade unionists fight against low pay, unequal pay and privatisation...
‘This strike will persist until justice is served!’ 2,000 Kenya postal...
The Communication Workers Union (COWU) in Kenya has held a national strike, on Monday 27 October, stopping all operations at the Postal Corporation of...
Ireland A&E overcrowding causing ambulance chaos – SIPTU organises industrial action...
SIPTU has warned that the overcrowding crisis in hospital emergency departments is causing chaos for ambulance professionals across the Republic of Ireland. The union has...
4,000 Colombian miners enter third month of strike!
OVER 4,000 miners, members of the Sintracarbón union, have entered the third month of a bitter strike at the Cerrejón coal mine in Colombia. The...
Colossal General Strike Rallies Take Place Throughout Greece!
History was written last Friday in Greece as truly colossal general strike rallies took place throughout the country when literally hundreds of thousands of...
Canadian grocery workers strike
THE employees of a Your Independent Grocer (YIG) franchise – in Cornwall, Ontario – have been on strike since November 23rd, as employer and...
NUMSA hails reinstatement as a victory for all workers!
THE NATIONAL Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) says last Thursday’s Constitutional Court ruling reinstating nine employees who were dismissed for singing struggle...
‘We Are Watching – We Are Waiting – We Demand...
BY Fra Hughes PAT FINUCANE was gunned down as he sat down to dinner with his family one Sunday evening in Belfast on February 12,...
‘Our members remain ‘extremely angry’ says NUMSA leader Irvin Jim
TWO weeks into their strike, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA), has rejected the latest wage offer in the metals and...
FBU launch DECON campaign to protect against toxic fire contaminants
Fire contaminants are directly linked to and can increase the risk of cancer and other diseases. The FBU has launched its new trailblazing campaign...
SA trade unions battle for inflation-beating pay increases for 1.2m
THE LABOUR Court in Johannesburg will be the setting for South Africa’s trade unions and the African National Congress (ANC) government to fight it...
Higher nurse-to-patient ratio decreases risk of death
A HIGHER nurse-to-patient ratio is linked to a reduced risk of inpatient death, finds a study of staffing levels in NHS hospitals, published in...
26,000 Chicago public teachers & 8,000 support staff strike
TWENTY-SIX thousand Chicago Public Schools (CPS) teachers and 8,000 support staff workers including custodians, special education assistants and bus aides walked out on strike...
‘We live in a moment where everything is at stake’ –...
‘WE LIVE in a moment which feels like everything is at stake,’ Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) National President Mark Hancock told convention...
‘Capitalism is a system which has to go!’
‘IT IS CAPITALISM as a system which has to go,’ artist Harlow Welldon said on the 35,000 strong protest last Wednesday in Hyde Park,...
AFL-CIO warns the Democrats not to cut Social Security, Medicare or...
The AFL-CIO unions have issued a warning to the Democrats about proposed Medicare cuts, telling them, ‘Don’t try it ... we will never forget.’ As...
California’s Health Staff 5-Day Strike
WORKERS at eight campuses of the Alameda Health System (AHS) in California’s East Bay – 3,200 members of the SEIU union local 1021 –...
Sri Lanka doctors strike against privatisation
A STRIKE by doctors over private medical universities gripped Sri Lanka on Friday. The country-wide strike action was launched by the Government Medical Officers Association...
100,000 March Against Israeli Barbarism
OVER 100,000 people took part in the largest-ever demonstration Britain has seen in support of the Palestinian people on Saturday, as Israel invaded the...
Haringey Home Care Workers Battle Low Wages And Zero-Hours Contracts
SEVENTEEN home care workers, Unison members employed across the London Borough of Haringey, are taking care company Sevacare and the council to court in...
Worthing and Southlands Hospital debt ‘government manufactured’
THE current cash crisis at Worthing and Southlands Hospitals is the result of a ‘manufactured’ funding deficit. This is due to the government’s belief that...
GAZA STRUGGLE INTENSIFIES! – Israelis kill six Palestinians in latest air...
INITIAL reports say at least six Palestinians have been killed by the latest Israeli air strike on the besieged Gaza Strip on Tuesday. Several people...
Venezuelan President Maduro denounces US for not lifting economic sanctions!
Nicolas Maduro, the Venezuelan President, on Monday night denounced the United States which he stated has not complied with an agreement to lift economic sanctions...
One Year Since The Rana Plaza Disaster!
TODAY, 24th April 2014, marks the first anniversary of the collapse of Rana Plaza in Bangladesh, when 1,138 people lost their lives and 2,000...
LEON TROTSKY’S ‘WHITHER FRANCE?’ TODAY – Part 4: For workers power...
IN Once Again, Whither France? (March 1935) Leon Trotsky discussed the call for a general strike. He wrote: ‘The general strike, as every Marxist knows,...
Occidental College student workers vote to join SEIU Local 721
OCCIDENTAL College student workers have voted to join the SEIU union Local 721, allowing over 1,000 undergraduate workers – baristas, tutors, translators, lifeguards, and...
South African metalworkers take action to defend pensions
THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) is preparing to take action, ‘including lunchtime pickets, placard demonstrations, marches and strikes’, to defend...
Rice Pledges Parallel Talks Ans Secret Diplomacy
THE Palestinian president, Mahmud Abbas and the US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice held a joint press conference in Ramallah last Sunday in the...