Tag: benefits
‘PEOPLE HAVE HAD ENOUGH!’ – postal workers demand action to win...
TWO weeks of postal strikes began with night shift Mail Centre workers across the UK walking out for 24 hours last Wednesday night at...
‘THE STRUGGLE FOR IRAQ’S OIL’ Part two – ‘We are fighting...
HANDS Off Iraqi Oil – the campaign launched to stop the theft of Iraq’s oil reserves – says that mainstream media coverage ‘has uncritically...
More ‘breadline poor’ after 10 years of Labour governments
The gap between the rich and poor has widened in recent years and is greater than at any time in the past 40 years,...
‘NO ALTERNATIVE BUT TO STRIKE!’ – CWU out for 24 hours...
yesterday the Communication Workers Union (CWU) announced a further day of strike action commencing the evening of Thursday 12th July and continuing through Friday...
Australian Unions Fight For Workers’ Rights
The UNI Communicators Forum, attended by union communicators from across the globe, has received a report on Australia’s unions’ battle for the rights of...
DEFEND ENGLISH CLASSES! – says UCU and students
TEACHERS and students from across London went to Downing Street yesterday, to present a mass petition against the attack on the right to learn...
‘NEW IMMIGRATION DEAL’ AN ATTACK ON ALL WORKERS says AFL-CIO
US trade unions have warned that the immigration bill going through Congress falls way short of expectations. The strength of opposition has seen the US...
‘THERE WILL BE NATIONAL ACTION!’ – over Royal Mail sack threats...
‘There will be national action on Royal Mail and I would think Counters will be involved. The whole country will come out now,’ Greenford...
Not Brown But A Workers Government And Socialism
The News Line-All Trades Unions Alliance Conference held in east London on Sunday May 13th unanimously voted to carry into action the following Main...
Brown’s ‘government of all the talents’ is a national government
GORDON Brown yesterday launched his campaign to take over the job of Tony Blair as Labour Prime Minister. He spoke about his ‘new ideas and...
US Nurses Demand Their Rights
More than 50 nurses from several AFL-CIO unions packed a House of Representatives hearing room on Tuesday to demand their rights be protected. They were...
Wal-Mart’s ‘Vicious Anti-Union Activities’ Exposed
THE AFL-CIO American trade union confederation has congratulated Human Rights Watch for its May Day report exposing the ‘vicious anti-union’ activities of retailing giant...
REGULARISATION FOR ALL! – march and rally for migrants’ and refugees’...
On the 7th of October 2006 a coalition of migrant groups, trade unions and social justice activists marched in London demanding equal rights for...
British economy skating on thin ice
BA is currently approaching a number of private equity companies about forming a consortium to bid for Iberia airlines. Iberia said last month...
A Thousand Workers Rally To Support Billboard Strikers
OVER a thousand workers in the Massachusetts labour movement rallied for 27 striking Clear Channel Billboard Workers on April 19th. Present at the rally...
‘WE WON’T ALLOW REMPLOY CLOSURE PLAN’ – Remploy stewards tell News...
THE whole of the Remploy network of factories for disabled workers is under threat, because the government plans to limit the company’s funding to...
Never mind the claimants – use lie detectors on the politicians
WORK and Pensions Minister John Hutton said yesterday that lie detectors will be used to help root out benefit cheats in job centres later...
Rattled Labour Bails Out 28 NHS Trusts
HEALTH unions yesterday welcomed a forced government retreat on the notorious ‘double whammy’ NHS accounting system whereby trusts have their funding cut twice if...
Government forced to revive the NHS Trusts it was bankrupting
IN the face of the rising anger of junior doctors, nurses, consultants, ancillary workers and patients over the Labour government’s policy of deliberately crashing...
Heading For A Housing Crash!
ON MONDAY trading on the Wall Street stock market in New Century Financial shares was halted, as the second largest US sub-prime mortgage lender...
Reid rants against foreigners ‘stealing our benefits’
YESTERDAY Home Secretary John Reid showed that patriotism is indeed the last refuge of a scoundrel when he attacked foreigners for ‘stealing our benefits’....
British capitalism can afford wars but not benefits!
BOTH Prime Minister Blair and Chancellor Brown insisted yesterday, in support of Works and Pensions minister Hutton, that single parents must look for work...
Blair-Brown War On Single Parents
Prime Minister Blair and Gordon Brown, together with Work and Pensions Secretary Hutton, will today announce a new, savage attack on lone parents and...
SAVE FREE ENGLISH COURSES – brutal move to drive students out...
IMPOSSIBLE fees estimated at £1,500 a year will be imposed in September, if the government is allowed to go ahead with planned cuts in...
Nut Condemns Academies’ Attack On State Education
The National Union of Teachers says the involvement of private sector companies in education over recent years ‘is of grave concern’. It stresses that the...
Gmb Members Picket ‘Vulture Capitalists’
GMB members yesterday went to Germany to demonstrate outside a gathering of the European Venture Capitalists Association (EVCA), at the same time as Prime...
Kelly plans new attacks on council tenants
RUTH Kelly, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, has backed proposals to end the long-term secure tenancies of working-class families living in...
Nationalise the pharmaceutical corporations!
A REPORT into the expenditure of the National Health Service on drugs, published by the government’s Office of Fair Trading (OFT) yesterday, reveals that...
Wealth redistribution in UK requires socialist revolution
UK child poverty levels are double those of 1979, after 27 years of the Thatcher, Major and Blair, Tory and Labour governments, while Brown...
Speak English Or Else – Minister Tells The Poor!
UNEMPLOYED people who cannot speak English will have to show they are learning the language or lose benefits, the government has announced. This is...
US Union Leaders Speak Up In Favour Of Employee Free Choice...
JOHN SWEENEY the president of the AFL-CIO US trade union federation has spoken out in favour of the Employee Free Choice Act. He said...
‘OUR TASK IS TO FIGHT ALL CUTS’ – says PCS NEC...
STRIKING PCS members in Harrow, north-west London, staged pickets at the Land Registry, the local Jobcentre, Harrow Magistrates and Harrow Crown Court from early...
Rate Rise Shock – Condemned As Panic By Tuc
BIG BUSINESS, the stockmarkets and the TUC were shaken yesterday midday when the Bank of England raised its interest rates by a quarter of...
TEAMSTERS ANNOUNCE AGENDA FOR 110th CONGRESS
WASHINGTON – The Teamsters announced yesterday the union’s legislative agenda for their 110th Congress, targeting key issues for working families, including the Employee Free...
War from Afghanistan to the Horn of Africa
THE whole of the area from Afghanistan to the Horn of Africa is now one great killing zone where US-UK imperialism either kills at...
BA Pensions Ballot!
Details emerged yesterday of a deal, yet to be agreed by workers, which means the end of final salary pensions at British Airways. The TGWU...
Cabinet Office Leads Fight To Smash Royal Mail
FOLLOWING instructions from the government’s Cabinet Office to government departments to put their mail out to tender to get the best cutthroat deal, ...
Jobs For Youth – Smash The Cheap Labour Economy
Youth unemployment is now higher than it was in 1997, with 702,000 young people aged 16-24 jobless, according to official figures released just before...
END PPP DISASTER – RETURN TUBE TO LONDON UNDERGROUND’ – says...
FOUR YEARS after the first Tube assets were handed to the private sector, London Underground’s biggest union has called for the disastrous ‘Public-Private Partnership’...
US Unions Taking Action Over Health, Safety And Retiree Pensions
PROPOSED rules by the Bush regime’s Transportation Security Administration for the US railway system ignore necessary employee training and protections against employer retaliation. The...
‘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...
‘CUT THEIR BENEFITS!’ – Hutton threatens the unemployed
Work and Pensions Secretary John Hutton yesterday declared war on the unemployed, saying Labour will cut off benefits from those who reject...
Hutton to starve the unemployed into cheap labour jobs
WORK and Pensions Secretary Hutton asked a question at the start of his verbal onslaught on the unemployed yesterday morning. It was: ‘People want...
CWU must take action to stop post office closures
2,500 POST OFFICES are to be closed by 2009 and all that the CWU post office workers union is doing about this massacre is...
‘Stop Urban Post Office Closures’
A new report, The last post, released on Monday, provides new evidence of the vital social and economic role of urban sub post offices. The report,...