Fort Worth Teamsters Strike
TEAMSTERS Local Union 767 Members at Allied Waste Services, Fort Worth, Texas have been on strike since December 18th 2006. They have taken action...
Stop Attacking Costa Rican Banana Workers – Catholic Church Is Urged
‘Trade union members are threatened, victimised, sacked and blacklisted by employers who pay sums of money to the Catholic Church which coordinates anti-union activities,’...
YOUNGEST GUANTANAMO JUVENILE TO BE FREED – US judge slams...
Mohammed el Gharani (imprisoned aged 14) is to be released from Guantánamo Bay, legal charity Reprieve reported on Thursday. It said: ‘Reprieve is thrilled...
100 Refugee Doctors Sign Up For Battle Against Covid-19
OVER 100 refugee doctors are signed up to become vital medical support staff – as unregistered UK doctors in Britain, many of them from...
‘We will never forget and we will never let those responsible...
A 400 strong packed meeting at Lambeth Town Hall on Tuesday night commemorated the fourth anniversary of the death of Sean Rigg in Brixton...
‘Consign capitalism to the Natural History Museum!’ –Jonty Leff tells Anniversary...
More than 200 workers and youth got massive support from residents and shoppers as they marched through east London on Sunday, to a rally...
Carillion at centre of blacklisting scandal
THE GMB has found that the senior Carillion HR manager involved in the Swindon dispute was the same HR manager for Carillion that dealt...
‘I WANT THE DOCTOR BANNED FOR LIFE’ says Colonel Mousa ...
THE Medical Practitioners’ Tribunal Service (MPTS) investigating the fitness to practice of the doctor who was responsible for the welfare of Baha Mousa at...
GREEK FASCIST PARTY LEADERS ARRESTED – workers determined to destroy them
THE leader and four parliamentary deputies of the fascist Golden Dawn party, along with 13 party cadres and two policemen, were arrested on...
Firefighters Look For A Candidate Who Will Defend Their Collective Bargaining...
NEARLY 1,000 US Fire Fighters (IAFF) are set to take part in today’s 2008 presidential campaign’s first bipartisan candidate forum on Wednesday in Washington,...
Huge Clashes Between Swazi Workers And Feudal Regime!
RELATIONS between the workers and trade unions of Swaziland and the rule of the feudal monarchy has almost reached the point of civil...
STOP ‘IRRESPONSIBLE’ FIRE CUTS PLANS – demands Merseyside FBU
Merseyside fire crews have branded the latest round of cuts planned for the local fire service as ‘irresponsible and maso-chistic’. Merseyside Fire Brigades Union (FBU)...
Bectu And Nuj Members Condemn Catering Sackings
ONE HUNDRED BECTU and NUJ members demonstrated outside Bush House in Aldwych, Central London last Friday, in support of ten workers sacked from the...
Peru protesters demand resignation of President Boluarte
PROTESTS are continuing throughout Peru demanding the resignation of President-designate Dina Boluarte, the closing of the Congress, the advancement of elections in 2023, and...
‘GUANTANAMO IS A GULAG!’ – says Moazzam Begg
ON THE day marking the fifth anniversary of the first detainees being transported to the US concentration camp at Guantánamo Bay, on the tip...
CLOSE DOWN GUANTANAMO! – Amnesty week of action
Last Saturday, 16 December, 2006 marked the start of a series of protests across the world with renewed calls on the US government to...
‘THE RESISTANCE MEN ARE MAKING MIRACLES’ – 60 Merkava tanks destroyed...
HEZBOLLAH Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah said Wednesday that the ‘resistance’ men are making miracles in the south, noting that over 60 Israeli Merkava tanks and...
‘ALL LEVELS OF AMERICAN GOVERNMENTS’ FAILED NEW ORLEANS – says CAW...
On a special trip to New Orleans on Tuesday, August 29, one year after Hurricane Katrina, Canadian Auto Workers President Buzz Hargrove said Canadian...
Government Wants To ‘Rid North-East Of Any Witnesses Of The Carnage’
COLOMBO has abrogated the Cease Fire Agreement (CFA) to remove the presence of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) which was instrumental in exposing...
STOP WHITTINGTON HOSPITAL CLOSING! – – we must all defend our...
WHITTINGTON Hospital is threatened with being reduced to a ‘local hospital’ through having its Accident and Emergency and other vital Departments closed, and...
Health workers take unprecedented strike action!
HEALTH workers throughout the country came out solidly on strike on Monday against the government’s refusal to increase their pay by 1% for those...
Shipbreakers Organising Against Super-Exploitation
WORKERS breaking down old ships on the coast of India have been forced to go without drinking water, a press conference in London has...
Investigate Crimes Committed Against Binyam Mohamed
Legal charity Reprieve has released its report, ‘Human Cargo’, which details the rendition and torture of Binyam Mohamed, a British resident in Guantánamo Bay. Reprieve...
Take Strike Action Against Royal Mail’s Draconian Plans!
Central to the Royal Mail ‘Pay Offer and Modernisation Agreement 2007/09’ are the sections on ‘flexible working’. These put the workforce at the minute-to-minute disposal...
MASSIVE UCU ACTION! – in defence of pensions
TONY Brown, University and College Union (UCU) president at University College London (UCL), told News Line on the Gower Street picket line yesterday morning:...
UNIVERSITY STAFF MARCH TODAY! • NO casualisation! • Defend pensions! •...
STRIKING University and College Union (UCU) lecturers and their supporters are marching through London today, assembling at 12 noon outside Universities UK HQ in...
‘In Colombia Being A Trade Unionist Means Risking One’s Life’
MYRIAM Luz Triana is the National Finance Secretary and head of women’s affairs at the Colombian General Workers’ Confederation, the CGT. She tells the...
‘HARDEST HIT’ demands stop benefit cuts for disabled people
‘Cuts Kill – Kill the Cuts!’ shouted an over 5,000-strong march of disabled people, their carers and friends as they approached parliament on Wednesday. The...
‘OPENING SCHOOLS TO THE MARKETPLACE IS WRONG’ – NUT slams Barclays’...
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) on Thursday slammed the announcement by Michael Gove that Barclays Bank will be supporting Academies, Free Schools, University...
South African textile workers fight poverty and exploitation
A march of 3,000 clothing workers organised by the Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers’ Union (SACTWU) brought the town of Newcastle to a...
NHS Together Will Challenge Will Challenge 1.5% Pay Offer
Leading officials of fourteen trade unions representing nurses, physiotherapists, radiographers, occupational therapists and other NHS staff held a press conference on Tuesday, declaring they...
200 March To Stop Gp Surgeries Closing
‘WHOSE GP surgeries? Our GP surgeries?’ rang out through the streets of east London as over 200 local residents, trade unionists, health...
Aerial Assassinations Mastermind Is New Israeli Chief Of Staff
The mastermind of Israel’s policy of aerial extra-judicial execution of Palestinian resistance fighters, Dan Halutz on Wednesday officially replaced Moshe Ya’alon as Chief of...
‘WE’VE DEFINITELY GOT TO GO NATIONAL’ – London CWU pickets tell...
PICKETS were out at Hornsey Road sorting office in north London yesterday, as angry Royal Mail workers across the capital and in many towns...
Daily nightmare of terrorist attacks in Syria
SYRIA’S permanent representative to the United Nations, Bashar al-Jaafari, said on Thursday that the United Nations’ bodies and some of its member states adopt...
WEMBLEY OCCUPATION GROWING – students and teachers show support at Saturday’s...
THERE was a great turnout of over 300 trade unionists, local residents and youth at the Wembley Park anti-academy occupation Jamboree in north-west London...
Iran Unveils Its Kowsar Jet Fighter
IRAN has unveiled its first domestically designed and manufactured fighter jet, named ‘Kowsar’, at a defence show in Tehran. The aircraft conducted its first...
5,000 March In London On Nakba Day
AROUND 5,000 people marched from the University of London Union (ULU) to Trafalgar Square in central London on Saturday, to mark the 61st anniversary...
‘OCCUPY TO KEEP CHASE FARM OPEN!’ – Bill Rogers tells Council...
OVER 100 workers and youth voted unanimously on Saturday for occupying hospitals against closure and to stop the smashing up and privatisation of the...
Guantanamo Detainees Fight To Challenge Their Detention In Civilian Courts
The US Supreme Court addressed a landmark case over the rights of Guantanamo Bay detainees on Wednesday, deliberating on whether the military prison camp’s...
St Paul’s occupiers determined to fight on – despite eviction attempts
ANTI-CAPITALIST St Paul’s occupiers were defiant and determined to stay despite attempts to evict them through the courts. Ev Emanon from Anonymous UK camped at...
HSC bows to Brown’s ‘enforcement-lite’ demand
‘The Health and Safety Commission says it is seeking “the right balance of enforcement and advice”, in line with the “enforcement-lite” approach sought by...
COUNCIL OF ACTION LAUNCHED – to stop hospital closures!
TRADE unionists, youth and local NHS campaigners voted unanimously at a meeting on Thursday night ‘to establish the North East London Council of Action’. The...
Cuts In Child Poverty Reversed By Coalition!
Reductions in child poverty are being reversed by the Tory-LibDem Coalition’s onslaught on welfare benefits, a report from the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)...
‘THE DOG IS DEAD, BUT THE RABIES PERSISTS’ – union says...
THE International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations (IUF) posted a statement on its website following the December...