Tag: employment
Youth are being hit the hardest by bankrupt capitalism!
SKY-ROCKETING youth unemployment figures just released reveal that nearly one million young people in the UK are not in employment, up from 500,000 in...
‘We are fighting for the survival of Brunel University’ say UCU...
‘WE ARE STRONG, united and determined to win,’ and ‘We are fighting for the survival of Brunel University,’ University and College Union (UCU) strikers declared...
Labour echoes Trump and Musk in demanding slashing jobs and workers...
LAST week, TUC general secretary Paul Nowak along with trade union leaders from across the world attended a two-day conference organised by the World...
Capitalism Is On Its Knees – Time To Organise World Socialist...
SPEAKING at a poorly attended Scottish Labour Party conference yesterday Sir Keir Starmer said the United States ‘is right’ about the UK and Europe...
COSATU, FEDUSA and SAFTU unite to fight SA government
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and the Federation of Unions of South Africa (FEDUSA) said on Thursday that they welcome the...
UK and US workers must unite to smash capitalism and imperialism!...
ELON Musk’s chainsaw wielding stunt with Argentine President Javier Milei before a conservative convention in the US on Thursday was a call to war...
No privatisation of US Postal Service! APWU and NALC oppose Trump...
UNI Global Union said on Thursday that its US affiliates in the postal sector are fighting back after President Trump recently reiterated his desire...
‘Let us fight together to transform workers’ lives across the world!’...
COSATU President Zingiswa Losi addressed Day One of the South African trade union movement Conference in Cape Town on Tuesday: ‘Comrades! Brothers and Sisters!...
Unions fighting for jobs, pay and services – time for a...
Birmingham bin strikers fighting race to the bottom Striking Birmingham bin workers have rejected a one off non-consolidated cash offer from Birmingham council but only if they accept a brutal...
Starmer wants British boots on ground in Ukraine and to force...
IN ADVANCE of yesterday’s panic meeting of EU and UK leaders in Paris, Labour prime minister Keir Starmer announced that he is prepared to...
‘Unscrupulous exploitation!’ Care workers forced to sleep rough or share beds...
CARE staff who come to the UK from overseas are having to share beds with other workers, sleep rough, and pay huge fees to...
Keep Musk’s hands off workers’ data! – AFL-CIO launches legal action...
The AFL-CIO and several of its affiliated government employee unions, last Wednesday, launched a legal action over fears that Elon Musk’s Department of Government...
Canadian unions condemn Trump’s trade war
HOW long will Canadian and American workers be pawns in Trump’s trade war? asks the IAM (Machinists) Canada union. Just three days after threatening to...
Trump and Musk tear up bourgeois democracy to wage war on...
ELON Musk has launched a campaign of slashing jobs and closing federal departments with nothing but contempt for Congress. Musk, the world’s richest man, was...
Trump’s declaration that American imperialism will ‘take over Gaza’ must be...
US president Donald Trump, at a joint press conference with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, announced that America would ‘take over Gaza’...
12.7% electricity tariff increase will entrench poverty for millions says South...
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) said on Friday that it strongly rejects the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA’s) decision...
Portland, Oregon unions are ready to strike over contract negotiations breakdown!
Two Portland, Oregon unions representing city employees are getting closer to walking off the job over a breakdown in contract negotiations. The American Federation of...
Cardiff University intends to slash and burn 400 full-time jobs and...
CARDIFF University has announced that it intends to cut 400 full-time jobs, along with whole course closures and department mergers; with nursing, music and...
Starmer gets pat on the head from Trump for Labour ramping...
THE cringing prostration of Labour prime minster Keir Starmer to US president Donald Trump finally paid off at the weekend when Trump condescended to...
Ramaphosa signs into law bill for land seizure with no compensation!
Cyril Ramaphosa, the South African President has signed into law a bill allowing land seizures by the state without compensation – a move that...
Teamsters vote 85% for national strike at Costco for a fair...
Teamsters members at the supermarket Costco across the United States voted by an overwhelming 85 per cent margin on Thursday to authorise a national...
At least 78 starved to death in Buffelsfontein massacre – locals...
No more ‘illegal miners’ are believed to be trapped underground at the Buffelsfontein gold mine in Stilfontein South Africa, volunteers working with rescue teams...
Patients are dying in corridors – a desperate situation for nursing...
Patients are dying in corridors and sometimes going undiscovered for hours, shocking new testimony from nursing staff revealed on Thursday. A survey of NHS nursing...
Bosses demand Labour government wages all-out austerity war on workers as...
THE UK’s main bosses’ organisation, the CBI, has turned on the Labour government with a vengeance over the increase in employers’ National Insurance Contribution...
Labour plans ruthless cuts and mass privatisation of public sector to...
The Telegraph newspaper has revealed an internal letter from Labour chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Treasury department ordering cabinet ministers to be ‘ruthless’ in identifying public...
Labour to launch war on disabled
THE LABOUR government will declare war on the disabled when Chancellor Reeves returns from China this week it was reported yesterday, as the media...
AFL-CIO & SEIU are reuniting in the United States – 13...
THE AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) announced on Thursday that they are reuniting to launch ‘a new, long-term effort to make...
Death by a thousand cuts! – teachers union leaders warning
THE Labour government is threatening to hit schools with ‘death by a thousand cuts’, teachers leaders warned yesterday. The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) reported...
‘No two-tier workforce!’ 2,000 6th Form College lecturers strike
AROUND 2,000 members of the National Education Union (NEU) began another three days of strike action at 32 non-academised sixth form colleges yesterday, against...
Prices and unemployment increase as bosses demand workers pay the price...
OVER half of UK companies are planning to push up prices in the next three months according to the latest research by the British...
Israel Has Intensified Its Aerial Assaults On Yemen
Israel has intensified its aerial assaults on Yemen, emboldened by a 14-month regional war and bolstered by the United States. On Thursday, Israeli fighter jets...
2025 – Victory for Palestine and World Socialist Revolution
NEWS LINE EDITORIAL BOARD NEW YEAR STATEMENT 2025 THE News Line Editorial Board sends revolutionary greetings for 2025 to all our readers and to the...
A victory for protection of freedom of the press
EVERY JOURNALIST welcomes the judgement of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal published Monday December 17, which ruled that the former PSNI (Police Service of Northern...
British Capitalism Is On The Rocks And Needs Replacing With A...
THE BANK OF ENGLAND has issued a warning that not only will the bankrupted UK economy not grow in the wake of the Rachel...
‘This landmark ruling underscores the crucial importance of protecting press freedom...
THE NUJ (National Union of Journalists) has welcomed the judgement of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal published Monday morning, December 17. The tribunal judges have ruled...
TURIN STUDENTS DEMAND FREE PALESTINE! – French CGT workers national mobilisation...
STUDENTS protested against the genocide in Gaza clashed with Italian police last Friday. The students reject ‘the war economy’ imposed by Giorgia Meloni’s ‘reactionary and...
Teamsters ballot for strike action after Costco rejected the union’s plans
The Teamsters union in the Unites States said on Thursday it will ballot its members about taking strike action after the supermarket chain Costco...
Farmers Descend On Parliament!
HUNDREDS of farmers descended on Parliament on their tractors yesterday, demanding ‘Save Family Farming!’ Having driven to the capital from as far afield as Exmoor,...
World capitalism is set to crash – It must be replaced...
JUST five months after being elected with a landslide majority, a life or death political and economic crisis has engulfed British capitalism. Labour PM Sir...
Tens of thousands of VW workers strike across Germany
66,000 VW employees went on a ‘warning strike’ on Monday, said their union IG Metall on Tuesday. A union statement continued: ‘The employees are making...
Recession-hit UK and EU diving into economic crash while Trump declares...
Yesterday, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) issued a warning to Labour’s chancellor Rachel Reeves that growth expectations amongst UK companies have taken ‘a...
Answer Labour’s war on benefits with a general strike to kick...
Labour yesterday unveiled its much trailed ‘Get Britain Working’ plan, hailed by Starmer’s government as the ‘biggest employment reforms in a generation’, to drive...
‘If you can work you must work’ – Kendall
‘UNDER this Labour government, if you can work you must work,’ Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall told the House of Commons yesterday. Launching the...
CBI bosses turn on Labour for not hitting working class harder
LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves turned up at the annual conference of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) yesterday to defend her autumn budget in...
Starmer Launches War On Benefits And Youth!
THE STARMER Labour government is launching its war on the sick, the disabled and the unemployed, with the youth particularly targeted, as it brings...