Tag: employment

TEACHERS in Kenya are to down their tools as unions KNUT, KUPPET announce a joint strike. Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) chairperson Omboko...

UNIVERSITY workers are set to strike to defend jobs and courses as soon as the new academic year begins in September. Staff at Sheffield Hallam...

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters scored a key victory in the union’s national fight to organise workers at Amazon after a federal judge ruled...

On the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, 9 August, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has made a fervent call for the...

‘In Bangladesh protesters impose their power!’ French trade union federation La CGT declared on Tuesday, as it congratulated and sent greetings to the nation’s...

THE appointment of Yahya Sinwar as the new political leader of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, after the Israeli assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, has...

LABOUR prime minister Keir Starmer emerged from an emergency COBRA meeting of ministers on Monday to announce the formation of a new ‘standing army’...

STOCK markets in Europe and Asia crashed yesterday morning as the international financial world suddenly woke up to the grim reality that US capitalism...

At least 76 people were killed, including 14 police officers, and dozens more injured in a new round of violence in Bangladesh over the...

The Screen Actors Guild American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) union has initiated a strike in the United States against video game...

LIBERTY Steel crisis worsens, unions oppose massive job cuts and de-industrialisation, says IndustriALL. In over just few days, news of massive job cuts, of bankruptcy...

ON MONDAY, the new Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced her shock and horror that no one had told her about a £22 billion ‘black...

RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has congratulated Nicolas Maduro on being re-elected President of Venezuela, noting the strategic partnership between Moscow and Caracas. ‘Russian-Venezuelan relations have...

BRITAIN, where modern industrial capitalism began and which became the workshop of the world, has now collapsed to being the world’s 12th biggest manufacturer,...

NEW LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves dropped a bombshell on the working class across the UK in a statement in Parliament yesterday, announcing that she...

LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves is set to tell workers that major unavoidable tax rises are on the way since she has inherited a £20bn...

NUMSA has won a victory for Ford workers in South Africa after the union was able to fight off over 500 jobs cuts, and...

SEVEN Labour MPs have had the whip suspended for six months after voting against the Labour government on an amendment to scrap the two-child...

ONLY four police officers in Kenya so far are to face prosecution for shooting and killing protesters over the last four weeks, amid rising...

‘I REFUSE to accept that I live in a country that accepts that child poverty is normal,’ Apsana Begum, suspended Labour MP for Tower...

WITH the UK’s Labour government set to face challenges from the left to the King’s Speech today, the Fire Brigades Union has urged MPs...

THE STARMER Labour government brought forward an anti-working class King’s Speech in Parliament yesterday morning. It announced 40 pieces of legislation, starting with a Budget...

THE TUC yesterday published a poll of over 3,000 voters which showed conclusively overwhelming support for workers rights and pay increases to match the...

Disney are set to face the largest strike in the US this year after it was announced that thousands of theme park and hotel...

MATT WRACK, the President of the TUC and the general secretary of the FBU, correctly said on election day, July 4th, that Labour’s post-election...

LEADER of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has praised the outgoing administration of the late President Ebrahim Raeisi as ‘the government of...

DAY surgery operating theatre nurses at St Thomas’ Hospital opposite Parliament are striking again today against having their shift times forcibly extended again! The 50...

On the fifteenth National march for Palestine over one hundred thousand workers and youth took to the streets in central London in support of...

One hundred and twenty five union building staff at the University of Chicago Medical Centre (UCMC) are to strike next week amid protracted contract...

On Sunday, France went to the polls in the first round of parliamentary elections, with the far-right, neo-fascist National Rally (RN) of Marine Le...

FOXCONN, a key manufacturer of Apple devices, has been systematically excluding married female candidates from assembly jobs at its flagship Indian smartphone plant. Despite both...

PICKETS were out yesterday morning at the Royal London Hospital on day two of the Junior Doctors’ strike. They are determined to fight whatever government...

OCCIDENTAL College student workers have voted to join the SEIU union Local 721, allowing over 1,000 undergraduate workers – baristas, tutors, translators, lifeguards, and...

The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) released a statement on Monday saying it is ‘appalled by the continued bungling’ of the National...

ON FRIDAY, June 21, The Republic of Armenia officially recognised the State of Palestine, raising the number of countries that recognise Palestinian statehood to...

Timi Frank, the former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Nigeria, on Thursday, called on the leadership of the...

THE IRISH Trade Union Congress Executive Council member and INTO Deputy General Secretary Deirdre O’Connor delivered a speech on behalf of the workers of...

Amos Hochstein, a senior United States diplomat, has met Israeli leaders and has also visited Lebanon as part of a push by Washington to...

MYANMAR’s trade unions are facing brutal retaliation in the fight for democracy, says Khaing Zar Aung, the President of the Industrial Workers Union of Myanmar. Democratic...

The Argentinian parliament’s upper house narrowly passed a controversial bill key to President Javier Milei’s economic cuts and privatisation plans as thousands of protesters...

UNITED States rights groups have filed an appeal against US President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin for...

THE General Election on July 4th will feature a shattered Tory Party that has already been wrecked by the developing capitalist crisis, and is...

‘BRITAIN must impose sanctions and an arms embargo on Israel and recognise the state of Palestine. We demand Israel gets out of Rafah, Gaza,...

ISRAEL’s genocidal war on Gaza, killing over 36,000 Palestinians including over 15,000 children, has had a huge impact throughout the world and has created...

COMPASS Coffee workers have announced a unionisation drive across seven stores in America to end the chain’s no-tipping policy and improve benefits and working...