Tag: employment

ALARMED by the impending crash of over-valued world stock markets, the deputy governor of the Bank of England (BoE) warned investors yesterday to prepare...

THERE was a well-attended picket line at Bow bus garage yesterday as drivers continued their fight for safe scheduling. Tom, a driver with 30 years’...

THE United States has suspended arms deliveries to NATO ally Estonia as its aggression in Iran has put a major strain on US weapons...

STARMER’S government is splitting apart, as Labour MPs turn on the prime minister, accusing him of creating a ‘toxic culture’, after the latest development...

RMT Tube strikers were on strike against London Underground’s attack on their working conditions yesterday. News Line attended the Arnos Grove RMT picket and spoke...

PRIME minister Keir Starmer appeared before the House of Commons on Monday to try to placate Labour MPs and the public over the crisis...

POWERFUL picket lines continue outside London rail depots this morning as the RMT Tube union completes this week’s first 24-hour strike at 12noon today,...

Analysis by two top accountancy firms issued yesterday predicted that a quarter of a million workers will lose their jobs by the middle of...

‘I KNOW many Members across the House will find these facts incredible (loud jeers) and to that I can only say that they are...

THE Teamsters trade union on Friday accused the management of the world’s largest food and beverage company Nestlé of stopping its US workforce from...

THE political crisis engulfed Labour PM Keir Starmer yesterday over ‘being incompetent, gullible or a liar’, and misleading parliament over the appointment of Peter...

THE NUJ and BECTU have condemned the BBC’s plans to cut around 2,000 jobs. The NUJ is urging the broadcaster to meaningfully engage workers and...

At least 21,000 jobs in the NHS will be cut in health trusts across England by 2028 as they struggle to meet the Labour government’s...

Across the length and breadth of the Gaza Strip, from food distribution points to water filling stations and basic services, the scene of long...

The Unite Here trade union which represents over 2,000 food service workers at the Los Angeles Stadium on Tuesday asked football’s governing body FIFA...

TENS of thousands of Resident Doctors began six more days of strike action yesterday, determined to defeat attacks on their pay and on the...

More than 2,400 striking healthcare workers in the Service Employees International Union at MultiCare, held a demonstration at the Navos Behavioral Health Hospital in...

FIVE WEEKS ago, falling interest rates seemed a certainty after Andrew Bailey, the Governor of the Bank of England, had signalled that lower borrowing...

1,000 members of United Steelworkers (USW), union, were illegally locked out of BP’s Whiting, Indiana refinery on Wednesday in what the union is calling...

THE Bank of England has issued a warning that Britain faces a financial crisis that would see households battling against much higher borrowing costs...

More than eight million workers and young people took to the streets in the United States as at least 3,200 demonstrations took place. There were...

MORE than half a million workers, students and youth joined the Together Alliance and pro-Palestine marches through central London to Whitehall on Saturday. The demonstrations,...

LABOUR Health Secretary Wes Streeting yesterday launched a new attack on the NHS. While he noted the King’s Fund and Nuffield Trust survey reveals the...

FORD Motor Company is investigating an accident on Monday at one of its transmission plants that killed an employee. First responders were called around 9.45am...

Amid relentless Israeli bombardment of Lebanon, paramedics, medical centres and ambulances have once again come under fire from Zionist fighter jets, echoing the pattern of Israeli...

AT A press conference yesterday morning, prime minister Keir Starmer attempted to reassure workers that the Labour government would protect them from the economic...

THE UNITE union, the largest union donor to the Labour Party, announced this week that it has voted to cut its Labour affiliation by...

As part of its nationwide ‘Protect Our Kids, Our Families and Our Communities’ mobilisation, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) has brought together a...

THE IRANIAN ambassador in London, Seyed Ali Mousavi, has spoken to the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg in a pre-recorded interview in which he correctly warned...

IRAN’S Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has been killed and in fact murdered in a major assault on Iran by Israel and the United States,...

LABOUR’S spectacular defeat in Thursday’s Gorton and Denton by-election in Manchester, although expected, has driven deep splits and recriminations within the party. Hannah Spencer, the...

All three of South Africa’s trade union federations the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU), and...

TRUMP’S rosy picture is disconnected from workers’ reality, the AFL-CIO trade union federation says. Tuesday’s statement from AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler on President Trump’s State...

INTERNATIONAL Business Machines (IBM), the giant US manufacturer of corporate computers suffered a massive drop in its share price on Monday as panic surrounding...

The largest nurses strike in New York City history ended at the weekend when the last holdouts in the 41-day labour action overwhelmingly voted...

AN article in yesterday’s Daily Telegraph delivered a sharp wake up call to the TUC and the trade union leaders who cling to the...

YOUTH are bearing the brunt of unemployment according to new Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures released this week. According to the ONS figures, unemployment...

Labour prime minister Keir Starmer performed yet another abrupt U-turn yesterday when he was forced to abandon plans to cancel 30 local government elections in...

AMERICAN trade union UNITE HERE has released Inhospitable, a report revealing how White House immigration policies are creating a crisis in America’s hospitality industry. The report was...

UNEMPLOYMENT in the UK rose to its highest rate in nearly five years at the end of 2025, official figures show. The unemployment rate climbed...

THE rapid rise in joblessness amongst the UK’s youth has pushed Britain to an unwanted milestone. For the first time in a quarter of...

Workers across India stopped work on Thursday as part of the Bharat Bandh (general strike). They were protesting against labour reforms and economic cuts being...

‘Thousands of public school teachers in San Francisco went on strike on Monday, the first public (state) school teachers strike in the city in...

LABOUR MPs are now warning that Keir Starmer’s days as Prime Minister are well and truly numbered. On Wednesday, a clearly shaken Starmer faced demands...

THE SOUTH African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) and the Independent Municipal and Allied Trade Workers Union (IMATU) occupied the Sol Plaatje council chambers last...