Tag: employment

THE Republican-dominated National Labour Relations Board (NLRB) voting along party lines to slash long-time federal labour laws protecting workers’ freedom to form unions has opened...

THE decision by Sinn Fein to accept the north of Ireland law courts and the police service wholeheartedly (including the special branch) completes the...

The Blair government was yesterday paralysed in the face of a mutiny by Britain’s Chief of the General Staff who demanded...

Migrant workers are being shortchanged by enforced ‘self-employment’ status, says the GMB trade union. The GMB yesterday called on aircraft services company Swissport to directly...

Royal College of Nursing leaders yesterday warned that over 20,000 nurses face the sack, ahead of handing in a petition to Downing Street today. The...

THE General Medical Council (GMC) was set up in 1858 to register genuine medical practitioners and make a distinction between them and pretenders. This...

THE Afghan war saga continues. First of all it was the tour of duty that would last for three years, with Labour Defence Minister John...

‘GMB are calling on the government and the minister of health to reinstate the A&E services to Epsom,’ Paul Maloney, Senior Officer of the GMB...

A DEPARTMENT of Health (DoH) report from the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Sir Liam Donaldson, 202 pages long was published this July called ‘Good...

‘I will be seeking a fresh ballot for more strike action,’ NHS Logistics UNISON Maidstone assistant branch secretary Dean Lane told News Line yesterday. ‘Personally,...

Over two million households are estimated to be struggling to pay Council Tax, according to a new report by the Warwick Institute for Employment...

‘If the government doesn’t halt the transfer of NHS Logistics to DHL immediately, then action must be taken by the whole trade union movement...

THERE WERE up to 50 pickets and supporters on the picket line at the Maidstone NHS Logistics distribution depot on Tuesday evening at 10...

TODAY, a number of Chagos Islanders will appear at Horsham County Court to fight a Claim Form for Possession of Property from West...

GORDON Brown yesterday confirmed that a government run by him would hand over the running of the public sector to an independent committee, which...

UP TO 5,000 health workers, trade unionists and local residents determined to save their jobs, hospitals and NHS services from massive cuts marched through...

THE TGWU trade union yesterday warned Blair and Brown that they were ignoring Labour voters ‘at their peril’. ‘Choose fresh policies and leaders’ was the...

UNISON members at five NHS Logistics sites – supplying 43,000 items from beds to surgical supplies to hospitals and GPs across England – will...

IT was revealed yesterday by the Guardian newspaper that it has seen a TGWU agreement which shows that the two BA shop stewards, who...

‘I am hurt very badly when I see that report in The Guardian,’ locked-out Gate Gourmet worker Parmjit Bains told News Line. ‘The union refused...

COMMANDER Cressida Dick is to become a deputy assistant commissioner, the Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) announced on Tuesday. On July 22 2005 Dick was in...

SOME 20,00 Greek trade unionists and workers staged a militant demonstration last Saturday in the northern city of Salonica where the Prime Minister Kostas...

CRIES of ‘TUC, let us in!’ rang out from locked out Gate Gourmet workers and their supporters outside the TUC Conference in Brighton on...

SPEAKING at a press conference in Brighton on the eve of the TUC Congress, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said: ‘Today I launch a...

TRADE unionists from many unions backed the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers’ lobby of the TUC in Brighton yesterday morning. A lobby of over 100 workers...

YESTERDAY the leadership of the TGWU refused entry, as visitors, to the TUC Congress to some 20 locked out Gate Gourmet workers who have...

THE following emergency resolution was carried unanimously at last year’s TUC Congress. The resolution was the TUC’s response to the Gate Gourmet management’s...

‘THE government could face a national strike by civil servants in a matter of weeks,’ PCS leader Mark Serwotka told a pre-TUC Congress press...

Yesterday a junior defence minister and six parliamentary private secretaries resigned over Prime Minister Blair’s refusal to name a date for his departure. Junior defence...

The Howard League for Penal Reform revealed on Thursday that local authorities ‘are systematically failing to provide suitable accommodation and support for vulnerable children...

EAST MIDLANDS UNISON and the Royal College of Nursing are holding a ‘The NHS is on its Knees, Get off your Feet to Save...

PRIME Minister Blair yesterday revealed his plan to use the same profiling techniques that are being used to identify ‘terrorists’ to identify...

ON THE final day of their three-day strike, the Whipps Cross hospital workers were confident of beating the employer and getting the money they...

UNIVERSITY students are working more and more – during holidays and during term-time – just to survive, says a joint report just published by...

The UN’s humanitarian chief, Jan Egeland, yesterday described Israel’s use of cluster bombs in south Lebanon during the final three days of the conflict...

On a special trip to New Orleans on Tuesday, August 29, one year after Hurricane Katrina, Canadian Auto Workers President Buzz Hargrove said Canadian...

Nearly 300 porters, cleaners and switchboard staff employed by Rentokil Initial at Whipps Cross Hospital in East London began another three days of strike...

Ancillary workers at Whipps Cross Hospital north London were yesterday organising for three days of strike action from today in a dispute over equal...

OVER 600 youth and trade unionists joined the locked-out Gate Gourmet workers in a demonstration through Southall on Sunday, marking the first anniversary of...

DESPITE the recent heavy losses suffered by the Israeli army in trying to penetrate southern Lebanon, the objective of the US administration, its Israeli...

Nearly 300 porters, cleaners and switchboard staff employed by Rentokil Initial, based at Whipps Cross Hospital in East London, will be on strike again...

‘VICTORY for Gate Gourmet workers!’, ‘Slavery – no way!’ shouted more than 600 locked-out workers and their supporters as they marched through ...

RALLIES will take place across the United States on Tuesday, August 22, demanding action to tackle the country’s health care crisis. America has a system...

ON SUNDAY, hundreds of workers from Gate Gourmet, who were locked out and sacked by the company on August 10, 2005, are marching with...

POWERGEN, the energy monopoly, is putting up the prices of its gas and electricity services by 18.4 per cent and 9.7 per cent, next...