Migrant workers cheated of wages & deported from US!
GERADO Santiago-Hernandez was a worker at Four Star Greenhouse in Carleton, Michigan. A lawsuit filed in June 2020, on behalf of him and other...
Heathrow workers ‘flying picket’ protest for London Living Wage
WITH WAVES of strike action currently under way across UK airports, hundreds of workers are set to join a mass protest at Heathrow tomorrow,...
Trade unions must take action for 15% – demand NHS staff
‘WHAT DO we want? 15%! When do we want it? Now!’ rang out on the Nurses March through London on Saturday afternoon. More than 1,000...
‘This is Jerusalem: Violence and Dispossession’ – report by B’Tselem Israeli...
ISRAEL’S policy regarding Palestinian neighbourhoods in occupied East Jerusalem is driven by its goal to take over as much land as possible and expand...
Bloody Sunday Commemorative March, Derry, forced off the road!
By Fra Hughes in West Belfast FOR the first time in 49 years, the Bloody Sunday Commemorative March has been forced off the road, as...
Striking NUT 6th form college teachers defy the Tories!
STRIKING 6th Form College National Union of Teachers (NUT) members from around England took part in a national demonstration on Tuesday to defend their...
Senior doctors in Zimbabwe strike and accuse the government of turning...
STRIKING senior doctors in Zimbabwe have accused the government of misleading the nation – by suggesting it had secured large quantities of essential drugs...
Thousands march in Ontario for $15 minimum wage!
JUST nine days after the Ontario election, thousands flooded the streets outside the Ministry of Labour and marched to Queen’s Park on Saturday in...
3,000 to be sacked at the Trump Taj Mahal casino
THREE thousand jobs are set to disappear after the owner of the Trump Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, has announced that...
Arab writers appeal to world
ARAB writers convening at the First Palestine Forum for the Arab Novel appealed on Wednesday to world governments to intervene to end the suffering...
UK MUST SUPPORT INDEPENDENT INTERNATIONAL INQUIRY INTO KILLING OF PROTESTERS IN...
A DEMONSTRATION on Saturday of over 2,000 people shouted their support for Palestine in solidarity with the ‘Great March of Return’ in Gaza and...
Moreno Flees Ahead Of Ecuadorian Mass Demonstrations!
ECUADORIAN President Lenin Moreno abandoned the capital, Quito, on Monday and fled to the coast ahead of mass demonstrations which were held yesterday. A mass...
‘We want a system that is accountable and meets the needs...
THE TALIBAN ‘seeks to build a political system and government in Afghanistan that would be approved by its people and accountable to people once...
More Than 40,000 Nursing Vacancies
‘OUR NURSING workforce is in a state of crisis, with more than 40,000 vacancies in England alone across our health service, from A&E to...
Unite Betrays BA Workers – Demand Emergency Conference Of Union To...
LAST Wednesday Howard Beckett, Unite union assistant general secretary, welcomed as a victory for the union British Airways ‘partial U-turn on fire and rehire’. Beckett...
GMB and Unite slam the Grenfell Report
THE GMB union has slammed the failure of the Grenfell Report to tell the full story. The roots of this disaster lay not with the...
Israeli Warplanes Shell Gaza
ON SUNDAY Israeli warplanes shelled a location north of the Gaza Strip while the Israeli army declared a full closure of both Beit Hanoun...
Australia’s working poor – ‘Workers’ share in the national income...
THE AUSTRALIAN Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) has released a new report that shows Australia is at risk of becoming an ‘Americanised society’ of...
Abbas meets Greenblatt to ‘relaunch peace process’
PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas’ meeting with US President Donald Trump’s special envoy Jason Greenblatt and their remarks hit the front page headlines in local Palestinian...
Terrorist attacks in northern Syria
THREE civilians were injured with shells in a terrorist attack on Qana al-Assi in Syria’s northern countryside of Homs on Thursday. SANA’s reporter in...
Iran rebuffs US false allegations of drone attacks
IRAN has rebuffed US accusations that it launched the drone attack that cut Saudi Arabia’s oil output in half, as a senior Islamic Revolutionary...
Saftu Condemns Energy Privatisation!
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) has condemned the privatisation of energy generation to ‘capitalist companies’ and expressed its support for...
Secondary teacher recruitment crisis Teacher trainee census 2018-19
‘WE are at a crisis in secondary teacher recruitment,’ said Kevin Courtney, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union, commenting on the...
Teachers Hostility To Government Policy Has Soared
Teacher hostility to the government and its policies has increased dramatically in recent months, according to a YouGov survey of 804 teachers, which was...
NHS pay deal ‘will mean a pay cut for the most...
THE GMB, which represents many of the lowest paid NHS workers, is recommending that its members reject the new pay deal proposed by the...
Stop Forcing Academies Onto The Communities Say Teaching Unions
THE National Union of Teachers has condemned the wholesale forced academisation of state-run education measures contained in the Tory government’s Education and Adoption Bill. Kevin...
‘Palestinian State Must Have Jerusalem As Its Capital!’
‘A PALESTINIAN state without Jerusalem as its capital will not be accepted,’ Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokes-man for President Mahmoud Abbas, said on Tuesday. He...
Israel demolishing homes of accused Palestinians
ISRAELI authorities on Thursday handed the families of two Palestinian suspects – whom Israel accused of being involved in an attack against Israeli soldiers...
‘Stand Together In 2014’ Canadian Workers Are Told By Ufcw!
‘BY STANDING together to campaign and defeat ultra-Conservative politicians and their corporate-only agenda, Canadians can make things better,’ UFCW National President Paul Meinema said...
Saftu Set To Call National Shut-Down
THE SOUTH African Federation of Trade Unions – and unions affiliated with the federation – applied pressure to companies employing their members last Thursday,...
‘Moreno A Hypocrite And Traitor! People’s Blood Non-Negotiable!’
‘Lenin Moreno Hypocrite and traitor – the blood of the people is not negotiable,’ shouted over a hundred Ecuadorians and their supporters outside the...
Israel plans ten new settlements in the Negev region
ISRAELI officials plan to rubber-stamp the construction of ten new settlements in the Negev desert region at a cabinet meeting next Sunday. The decision...
Eskom Mass Dismissals As Oakvalley Farm Workers Battle ‘Apartheid’ Conditions
TROUBLE is brewing at Eskom’s Kusile Power Station in South Africa, following the mass dismissal of hundreds of outsourced workers after protests threatened operations...
Forced Academies – ‘This Is A Huge Government Climbdown!’ Says Nut
‘THIS is a huge government climb-down and is a testament to the campaigning of teachers and parents,’ Kevin Courtney, Deputy General Secretary of the...
‘Aggression will be confronted with the strongest and most crushing...
A SPOKESMAN for Iran’s armed forces has threatened a ‘crushing response’ against any US aggression and allies who host American troops. ‘Any place and any...
MINIMUM WAGE–CONDEMNS MILLIONS OF WORKERS AND THEIR FAMILIES TO POVERTY says...
THE SOUTH African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) has not welcomed the Poverty National Minimum Wage Act, which was signed into law last Friday...
SOUTH AFRICAN UNION NEHAWU CALLS TO ‘STAY AWAY’ ON AUGUST 28th...
THE NATIONAL Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu) has called on health staff to stay away from work on 28th August to protest...
SAUDIS PREPARED TO WORK WITH RUSSIA OVER SYRIA! says Deputy Foreign...
SAUDI Arabia will work together with Russia to find a solution for the crisis in Syria and settle the issue of Syrian refugees, a...
Nursing Shortage Putting Patient Safety In Danger
The shortage of nursing staff in England is putting patient safety in danger, the Royal College of Nursing warned yesterday as it launched a...
UNHCR condemns UK for plan to deport all asylum seekers
THE UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) has condemned the practice by countries like the UK of deporting asylum seekers for processing in...
Millions Strike For $15 An Hour In The Usa
MORE than 1,000 low-wage workers from the fast food, retail, healthcare and delivery industries marched to McDonald’s at 82 Court Street in Downtown Brooklyn...
MIGRANTS IN TEXAS CAMP TOLD TO ‘DRINK OUT OF THE...
A REPORT by US President Donald Trump’s own Department of Homeland Security says conditions in border patrol accommodation for migrants in southern Texas is worse...
Ufcw Fighting For Permanent Jobs At Phillips Seafood
THE United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) returned to leaflet customers of US Phillips Seafood restaurants in support of The International Union of...
Portland fast food workers battle for $15.25 an hour!
YOUNG fast food workers in Portland, Oregon, USA, who are fighting for a $5 an hour rise above the US state’s minimum wage and...
Catalonia declares support for Puigdemont
THE parliament in Catalonia has declared its support for former leader Carles Puigdemont’s right to re-appointment as president of the northeastern Spanish region. Pro-independence...