Job Stability Is The Key Issue In Toronto
JOB stability is the key issue in the negotiation stalemate between City of Toronto and inside workers, CUPE Local 79 President Tim Maguire says. Addressing...
Israel escalates its demolition of Bethlehem Palestinian structures
The latest demolitions of Palestinian structures in Beit Jala city in Bethlehem district and the string of Israeli attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip...
Israeli Military Attacking Gaza With Air Strikes And Artillery
THE Israeli military has carried out airstrikes and artillery attacks on various sites across the besieged Gaza Strip over what it cited as a...
Syria Offers Coalition To Combat Isis!
DAMASCUS – Caretaker Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign and Expatriates Minister Walid al-Moallem, said in Damascus that Syria is prepared to cooperate and coordinate on...
‘Wheels on the verge of falling off’ the ambulance service say...
Unite, which has over 100,000 workers in the NHS, including thousands of paramedics, is warning that unprecedented demand is resulting in the ‘wheels being...
Grenfell smoke system failed
‘DAMPER’ devices placed in Grenfell Tower’s ventilation system to prevent the spread of smoke were of the ‘lowest possible standard’, the ongoing Grenfell inquiry...
NASUWT Conference votes for strike action over pay
TEACHERS have instructed their trade union’s executive to consider calling action, ‘up to and including strike action’ against the Tory government’s attacks on their...
RMT Tube Strike ‘Rock Solid’
THE WEEKEND strike action on London Underground (LU) on the Central, Jubilee, Northern, Piccadilly & Victoria Tube lines was rock solid. The striking Tube driver...
‘Workers Should Down Tools If They Feel Unsafe’ – Cosatu
WORKERS should be allowed to down tools if their employers fail to provide them with masks and other protective gear in line with the...
‘13 Local Authorities Remain 20% Below Their Targeted Fundings!’
‘IT IS concerning that the Department of Health is not getting local authorities to their target funding allocations for public health quickly enough,’ says...
‘Europe’s leaders consider people drowning as an acceptable price to pay...
MALTESE authorities on Monday refused the Ocean Viking rescue ship permission to refuel in their harbours while on its search and rescue mission off...
Bombardier Workers Fight Jobs Massacre
BOMBARDIER has upped its jobs massacre programme in Belfast, with an even greater number of sackings to take place this year. The aerospace company said...
£9,000 pinched from public sector pay packets since 2010 says Unison
‘FACING 10 years of pay cuts in real terms, our vital public sector workers – nurses, midwives and refuse collectors – have had an average of...
Bangladesh workers still fighting exploitation despite 2013 Accord
IN 2013, foreign brands and unions signed an Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh, and although workers who need to complain against...
‘MOVE AWAY FROM THE SOUL- DESTROYING ASSESSMENT REGIME’ – ATL message...
EDUCATION secretaries need to ‘up their game’, listen to the professionals or step away to avoid damaging children’s life chances, says Association of Teacher...
Western Powers Warn Assad Not To Stand!
ELEVEN Western and Middle Eastern powers on Thursday warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad against holding elections, saying that the vote would have no credibility...
PEOPLE OF GAZA ‘ARE MAKERS OF HISTORY’ says Haniya
ISMA'IL HANIYA, deputy head of the Hamas Political Bureau, in Gaza City began his speech in front of a large crowd of supporters citing...
Canadian trade unions fighting new anti-union legislation
Last week, Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government of Jason Kenney introduced Bill 32, the Restoring Balance in Alberta’s Workplaces Act, which constitutes ‘an attack...
‘Joint Enterprise’ Law Putting Youth In Jail For Decades
THE ‘JOINT enterprise law’ is putting young people in prison for decades for simply being present when a crime is taking place despite them...
New York’s Lincoln centre must cancel Israeli-sponsored show
More than 80 theatre artists and 12 Palestine-based theatre and performance groups are demanding that New York’s Lincoln Centre cancel upcoming Israeli government-sponsored performances...
‘Our freedom seems possible because you reached yours’ – MARWAN BARGHOUTHI...
‘DURING the long years of my own struggle, I had the occasion to think many times of you, dear Nelson Mandela. ‘Even more since my...
Teachers Vote To Strike Over Pay!
THE ANNUAL Conferences of the two main teachers unions, the National Education Union (NEU) and the National Association of Schoolmasters and Union of...
US Actors Strike Against Video Games Industry
THE 11-day-old actors’ strike against video game industry will not end until the companies compromise on their refusal to offer some type of residuals...
No pay rise! A slap in face for NHS staff
‘ENOUGH is Enough,’ chanted a rally of 500 angry NHS workers outside Downing Street on Wednesday night. They are angry that they have been excluded...
Special needs children face exclusion from school!
Children with special educational needs or disabilities (SEND) are not getting the support they need and are at risk of being permanently excluded from...
‘The US is working to serve Israel’s interest – destroying all...
DEPRIVING Palestinian refugees of their basic rights is a recipe for trouble, says PLO official Hanan Ashrawi. Depriving 5.3 million Palestinian refugees of...
YOUTH PAYING A HIGH PRICE FOR THE OCCUPATION –a third unemployed...
THE Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) has released a statistical review on the status of Palestinian youth that shows youth pay a heavy...
Terrorists have gained from the ‘American Alliance’ says Syrian President Assad
PRESIDENT al-Assad has given an interview to the Chinese ‘PHOENIX’ TV Channel The following are excerpts from the interview: Question: You...
Palestinian children arrested, tortured and thrown in solitary confinement!
AN international human rights group on Monday released details of the interrogation and assault of a Palestinian teenager during his arrest in June by...
Marikana platinum miners ready to strike for a year!
MORE strife is looming at South Africa’s Marikana platinum mines, as members of Amcu (the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union) warned Lonmin’s new...
US put pressure on Abbas to halt payments to families of...
INTERNATIONAL pressure on the Palestinian Authority to halt payments to the families of Palestinians held in Israeli jails, including those convicted of attacks, could...
Unison condemns ‘brutal massacre in Gaza’
UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis has joined others in condemning the ‘brutal massacre in Gaza’. Writing on the union’s website, Prentis said on Wednesday: ‘On...
‘Convene our own people’s parliament to unite against poverty’ – SAFTU...
ZWELINZIMA VAVI, SAFTU general secretary, addressed the THOR Congress at the Plaza hotel, Durban 24-25 Feb 2018. He said: ‘THOR (Transport Action Retail...
‘Renew the Intifada in West Bank’ – says Haniya
IN A speech in Gaza to mark on the second anniversary of the prisoner swap deal between Hamas and Israel, Hamas leader Ismail Haniya,...
French rail strikes continue against EU-directed privatisation
TRAIN services were hit in France once again on Monday morning due to the latest two-day rail strike. The rolling two-day strikes, which began on...
FAMILIES ARE BEING ASKED TO CARE FOR THEIR SICK RELATIVES –...
FAMILIES are being asked to care for their sick relatives, act as nurses and even administer injections, in an extremely controversial move...
IRAN’S ROLE IN IRAQI OFFENSIVE COULD BE POSITIVE SAYS GENERAL DEMPSEY...
IRAN’S role in an Iraqi military offensive to recapture Tikrit could be positive as long as it does not fuel sectarian divisions in the...
SAFTU opposes ‘slave wage’ new minimum wage
SOUTH Africa’s Minister of Labour, Mildred Oliphant, says 2019 is the ‘earliest opportunity’ for government to implement the R20 per hour National Minimum Wage,...
Syrian Democratic Council Sends Delegation To Damascus To Talk To Assad!
US BACKED militants in Syria have sent a delegation to the Syrian capital for talks with Syrian government officials. The so-called Syrian Democratic Council...
USA public service workers fight anti-union attack
IN ITS 5-4 decision on Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the Supreme Court ended the practice of requiring...
STOP SACKINGS AT ARCELORMITTAL says Solidarity SA
TRADE UNION Solidarity on Friday said that it regrets the retrenchment crisis at ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA), warning that if key players in the...
UCU Strike Actions At 10 Colleges
Members of the University and College Union (UCU) at ten colleges will take strike action throughout May and June as part of a row...
Israel is ‘turning Palestinians into criminals in their own homes’ says...
ISRAEL’S latest military orders facilitating the illegal expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland are simply the latest in a string of Zionist attempts to...
UN Concerned Over Force-Feeding Of Palestinian Hunger Strikers!
THE United Nations has voiced concern over a recently adopted Israeli law allowing the force-feeding of detainees and prisoners on hunger strikes in Israeli...
Ten Palestinians Killed And 882 Injured By Israeli Forces In Gaza...
TEN Palestinians, including three children, were killed and 882 others have been injured by Israeli forces at the Gaza border during the past two...