Tag: benefits

‘EAT, heat or pay rent’ that is the stark choice facing millions of low paid and unemployed workers living in private rented accommodation in...

THE MOTHER and sister of Dexter Bristol (57), who died suddenly earlier this year after being classified as an illegal immigrant, angrily walked out...

SOUTH African unions say they will resist power utility Eskom’s intention to cut 7,000 jobs through natural attrition with strike action. ‘Eskom intends to reduce...

LETTING agents are discriminating against tenants on housing benefit, an undercover investigation has found. Shelter and the National Housing Federation found one-in-ten agents in England...

IRAN has unveiled its first domestically designed and manufactured fighter jet, named ‘Kowsar’, at a defence show in Tehran. The aircraft conducted its first...

GREECE has completed a three-year eurozone emergency loan programme worth 61.9bn euros (£55bn; $70.8bn). This was part of the biggest bailout in global financial...

AMERICA’s United Farm Workers union (UFW) is fighting an attack by Darigold, the largest dairy processor and cooperative in the Pacific Northwest. UFW says: ‘While...

THIS week, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) released a load of emails and transcripts of phone conversations between senior executives of RBS, the...

MILLIONS of workers in Britain face the prospect of seeing their jobs replaced by machines in the next ten years, according to a report...

SEIU Local 1 janitors in Detroit, Michigan, joined by supporters and elected officials, have announced their historic contract victory which includes raises to $15...

TURKEY’S Constitutional Court has ruled that the cabinet decree banning IndustriALL’s affiliate United Metalworkers’ Union (Birleflik Metal-Is) decision to strike in 2015 is a...

Universal Credit (UC) is allowing ‘abusers’ to take control of family finances, an investigation by a parliamentary committee has heard. UC is paid to...

THE Constitutional Court, the highest court in South Africa, has ruled that an employer cannot employ a worker for more than three months without...

REPRESENTATIVES of United Steel Workers (USW) trade union members who are locked out in Massachusetts, USA, by National Grid, lobbied the parent company’s AGM...

HOUSEHOLD debt in UK is worse than at any time on record a new report by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows. Credit cards,...

MEMBERS of the United Steelworkers union working for the British multinational utility company National Grid in the US state of Massachusetts will be flying...

MORE than 130 parents queued outside a school in Cardiff, Wales from 3am Thursday morning to try and get their child a space at...

THE CHEQUERS Brexit compromise White Paper on the UK’s plans to leave the EU is to be published today. The plan, thrashed out behind...

LOCKED-OUT United Steelworkers (USW) union members are blasting National Grid for stopping payment to their health care plans, but the company says it won’t...

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...

WORK and Pensions Secretary Esther McVey has apologised to Parliament for making ‘inadvertently misleading’ statements about Universal Credit. She said she had ‘mistakenly’ told...

AFTER over a decade of savage austerity measures, during which wages have been driven down and millions made dependent on food banks, the House...

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...

IN A MONUMENTAL act of cynicism, the Tory government on Monday announced that this Friday will be designated ‘Windrush Day’ and that henceforth 22nd...

‘THIS IS a time for revolution not patching,’ said Anthony Painter, Director of Action & Research at the Royal Society of Arts, calling for...

THE National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) have both officially rejected Eskom’s 0% wage offer, saying...

TRADE union Unite has signed a historic union recognition agreement with Ryanair, which is infamous for fighting to stop the unionisation of its workforce. This...

FOREIGN Secretary Boris Johnson has declared civil war in the Tory Party and savaged Chancellor Hammond and the Treasury as being the main...

The South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) has condemned the privatisation of energy generation to ‘capitalist companies’ and expressed its support for...

THE GMB Annual Conference, which opened in Brighton on Sunday and finishes today, warned that there is a ‘social care ticking timebomb’ ... with...

WORKING in an Amazon warehouse, a woman in the last months of pregnancy was forced to stand for ten hours a day, while another...

THURSDAY was Unite’s National Day of Action against Universal Credit! There was a rally at 1pm in Old Palace Yard and a march to...

PRESS reports this week revealed that vulnerable members of the Windrush generation are still being forced to live in conditions of complete destitution, forced...

Australia is a global pacesetter in the creation of various forms of insecure employment, leaving only 60% of the workforce in standard, secure work,...

UNDER HEAVY FIRE, PM May yesterday was reduced to pleading with fellow ministers and MPs to ‘trust me to deliver’ over Brexit. Writing in...

THE WINDRUSH scandal, missiles launched at Syria without even seeking permission from Parliament, the Grenfell fire disaster, the winter NHS meltdown, homelessness and rough...

JUNIOR DOCTORS have defended their protected pay banding after a year-long struggle. The BMA supported 15 foundation doctors at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS...

THE children of immigrant families are being deliberately starved by the Tories as part of their ‘hostile environment’ policy towards immigrant workers. Headteachers and...

TRUMP’S decision to withdraw the United States from Iran’s nuclear deal with the imperialist powers (JCPOA) and re-impose sanctions against the Islamic Republic of...

This is a treacherous abdication of all responsibility by the trade union leaders for this crisis of poverty. They have not lifted a single...

PATIENTS living in the north west have had their lives put into jeopardy, the GMB union warned, as the ambulance transport service announced it...

AT WEDNESDAY’S Prime Minister’s Question Time, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn called for Tory Home Secretary Amber Rudd to resign – the only problem with...

‘WE ARE talking about the environment created by her (PM Theresa May) as Home Secretary for six years when she knew full well of...

STUDENT workers from the University of California demanded the UC implement new anti-discrimination and harassment provisions at a union contract negotiation session last Thursday. UAW...

THE IMF (International Monetary Fund) this week sounded the alarm bells for the world capitalist crisis when it announced the real scale of the...