‘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...
‘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...
French rail workers rolling strikes
FRENCH rail workers walked out on another day of strikes on Thursday June 7th. Rail unions have carried out a series of two-day rolling...
SAFTU fights to end two-tier health regime
THE South African Federation of Trade Unions stands fully in support of the long-overdue introduction of a national health insurance (NHI) system, and welcomes...
Yale Employees Demand Union Recognition!
HUNDREDS of people gathered on the streets of New Haven, Connecticut, on Saturday morning to call for good jobs. They are waiting in frustration for...
Zimbabwe Trade Union Leaders Charged With ‘Disruption Of Public Order’
On 16 November 2018, seven members of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) – including ZCTU Secretary General Japhet Moyo and ZCTU President...
General Strike In Palestine Against Bahrain Conference
PALESTINIAN factions have called for demonstrations and a general strike in protest at an upcoming US-led conference in Bahrain, which centres on Washington’s ‘Deal...
Myanmar military mass murder of workers and youth continues
THE NUMBER of protesters killed in Myanmar since February’s military coup has surpassed 320, according to the country’s Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, which...
‘Withdraw these “flexible” contracts’ – West Midlands FBU launch ‘Fired Up’...
WEST Midlands Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has written to Labour councillors and MPs ‘to raise our serious concerns over the treatment of firefighters within...
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...
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...
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...
OVER 500 CAPE TOWN FIREFIGHTERS FACE THE SACK! – treated like...
‘THE CITY of Cape Town cannot be allowed to have its cake and eat it. We should not allow it to heap all praise...
UK leads the way in austerity, welfare cuts and hungerK leads...
‘Nothing Left in the Cupboards: Austerity, Welfare Cuts, and the Right to Food in the UK,’ is the title of a devastating 115-page Human...
Netanyahu’s crisis deepens! – remains Premier but relinquishes positions
ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to relinquish the four ministerial positions he currently holds in the face of his indictment on charges...
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...
Manufacture In Recession!
MANUFACTURE is now in recession! GMB union responds to the latest ONS ‘damning’ figures which shows the start of a major slump. GMB,...
‘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...
Tayside healthcare workers demand ‘fair pay for all!’
HEALTHCARE assistants at NHS Tayside have gone into battle to demand the same pay as their colleagues demanding ‘fair pay for all!’ They are...
‘Restore citizens’ freedoms’ – Demand 100 civil society organisations
OVER 100 Civil Society Organisations produced the following Joint Statement on the Military Take Over in Zimbabwe on November 15, 2017. ‘We the undersigned civil...
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...
BA ultimatum: accept 20% pay cut or lose your job
British Airways has told cabin crew they must take a 20% cut in basic pay if they want to keep their jobs, – but...
IG Metall demands 6% rise & 28-hour week for parental leave!
HUNDREDS of thousands members of IG Metall union, Germany’s largest trade union, are engaged in short-term ‘warning strikes’ against 80 companies, for the right...
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...
‘Never threaten the Iranians’ Zarif warns Trump
IRAN’S Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has warned US President Donald Trump to avoid threatening the Iranians, advising him to ‘try respect’ as the...
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...
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...
Nine Yemenis killed by Saudi airstrikes!
AT LEAST nine Yemenis were killed late last week as Saudi-led military aircraft carried out a string of airstrikes against an area in Yemen’s...
‘QANTAS PLANNED TO USE PANDEMIC TO OUTSOURCE 2,500 WORKERS’ –...
AUSTRALIA’S Transport Workers’ Union (TWU) is demanding that PM Scott Morrison explains what he knew about Qantas management’s long-term decision to axe and outsource...
1,000 Unite ground staff vote unanimously for BA strike action against...
OVER 1,000 British Airways (BA) baggage handlers, loaders and other ‘below-wing’ ground staff workers voted unanimously in favour of strike action at a mass...
Flu pandemic will be ‘more deadly’ – due to Health Act
AN INDEPENDENT think tank has warned that when the next flu pandemic hits Britain, because the NHS has lost 10,000 staff, the results would...
Academics & Scientists Call For Boycott Of Israeli Conference In Occupied...
IN an Open Letter published on Friday in the Guardian newspaper, 15 academics and scientists from around the world expressed opposition to holding 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...
Palestinian teenagers shot dead by Israelis
ISRAELI soldiers shot dead a Palestinian teenager at Mazmoria checkpoint, east of Bethlehem, on Sunday afternoon – only a few hours after...
Private company driven out of NHS
A HEALTHCARE ‘procurement’ process that named a private provider as the preferred bidder for contracts worth £25m has been abandoned after NHS trusts threatened...
Netanyahu insisted on permanent Israeli military presence in occupied West Bank...
FORMER secretary of state John Kerry has revealed the Obama administration’s frustrations with Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu in a new book slated for...
‘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...
South Korean workers defy protest ban
SOUTH Korea’s umbrella labour unions are defying a government ban and have pledged to push ahead with organising another massive rally on December 5th,...
US trade unions condemn racist rally in Charlottesville
AMERICA’S nurses’ union, National Nurses United (NNU), has condemned the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville on Saturday which resulted in the death of a...
Syrian Air Defences Foil Terrorist Drone Attacks On Hmeimim Air Base
SYRIAN air defence forces have reportedly managed to foil an attack by foreign-sponsored Takfiri militants against the country’s strategic Hmeimim air base in Syria’s...
NHS 70 years on battles for funding
ON JUNE 30th, hundreds of thousands of people will be marching to celebrate and defend our National Health Service. The NHS is facing many problems...
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,...
HOUSING OMBUDSMAN TO INVESTIGATE COMPLAINTS OF MOULD & DAMP – but...
THE HOUSING Ombudsman has launched an investigation into damp and mould in buildings – which has shown just how widespread it now is throughout...
19 KILLED AS ISRAELI COMMANDOS STORM FREEDOM FLOTILLA –thousands protest outside...
THE death toll has risen to 19 after an an attack on the Freedom Flotilla sailing from Cyprus to Gaza, by Israeli commandos. They...
Tens of villages and towns in Aleppo liberated by Syrian army!
The Army and Armed Forces General Command announced that tens of villages and towns in Aleppo western and northwestern countryside have been liberated. The liberation...