Tag: employment

THE 371 USW United Steelworkers/Syndicat des Métallos workers in Quebec, Canada, have won their nine-month strike against Glencore-managed CEZinc. The workers went on strike at...

IT IS time for the South African working class to follow the example of the Russian workers who overthrew not only the Tsar and...

AMAZON workers have their toilets breaks timed, are paid as little as 7p per item they pack and are working as much as 55...

WORKERS at six Amazon distribution centres in Germany and one in Italy began a 24-hour strike on Friday, in a protest timed to coincide...

SPORTS Direct, the infamous zero-hours employer, is asking shareholders to approve £11m in back pay for Mike Ashley’s brother John. Unite assistant general secretary Steve...

IN THE wake of Tory Chancellor Hammond’s budget – a budget in which he declared war on the working class, war on pensioners, war...

TODAY’S Budget is far from the ‘game-changer’ the country needs and will do little to ease the biggest squeeze in living standards the country...

FIGURES released this week by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show a dramatic increase in the number of preventable deaths among the elderly...

THE NATIONAL Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) has demanded that Australia’s government takes ‘urgent and immediate action to stop unconscionable employers ripping off international students...

CHANCELLOR Hammond outlined a bankrupt policy for a bankrupt Britain yesterday in the House of Commons. The paper-thin disguise for this bankruptcy was Hammond’s...

WORKERS at Siemens AG, the largest industrial manufacturing company in Europe, are demanding strike action against a programme of mass sackings. Thousands of Siemens ...

TENS of thousands of low paid workers on Universal Credit may not be paid over the festive season or may get a reduced payment. Those...

OVER 100 Civil Society Organisations produced the following Joint Statement on the Military Take Over in Zimbabwe on November 15, 2017. ‘We the undersigned civil...

THOUSANDS of families in England will be spending Christmas in fear that the New Year will bring eviction from their homes. This was the message...

MANDATE Trade Union members on Tuesday called on all TDs to sign the ‘Secure Hours – Better Future’ charter which would end zero-hours and...

PM MAY made crystal clear yesterday that Russia is the main enemy of crisis-wracked UK imperialism. In fact, Tory newspapers have been making it...

THE SOUTH African Federation of Trade Unions’ (SAFTU) claim that South Africa is becoming a kleptocracy – a country ruled by thieves – is...

RESPONDING to a notice issued by Papua New Guinea (PNG) authorities on Thursday morning at the Lombrum refugee detention centre on Manus Island stating...

THE rally this Sunday will not just celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution. It will be a clarion call for workers to...

THE GMB union yesterday hailed ‘a landmark victory for workers’ rights’ after the Employment Appeal Tribunal upheld a ruling that Uber drivers should be...

THE UNION representing 12,000 striking Ontario college faculty called on Tuesday for its members to reject their employers’ latest contract offer in a ballot...

THE proposed merger between energy giants SSE and Npower is for the sole benefit of shareholders, with scant concern for the workforce and the...

OPPONENTS of US President Donald Trump’s visit to South Korea this week gathered behind the Kyobo Building in Gwanghwamun, near the US embassy in...

AS THE Tory party implodes, and the lynch mob search mounts for the author or authors of the ‘Dirty Dossier’ that named 40MPs and...

‘WE have an NHS and maternity service that is heading for a crisis and the government’s policies are clearly failing,’ the leader of the...

MACDONALD Hotels stand accused by the trade union Unite of ‘wage theft’ in explosive evidence to the House of Commons Scottish Affairs select committee’s...

PORT truck drivers from Los Angeles, Long Beach and New Jersey took their fight for justice on the job to Capitol Hill last Thursday. The...

THE NUMBER of firefighters has been cut by nearly a quarter over the past decade, a newly released Home Office report has shockingly revealed...

THE NUMBER of NHS beds has halved in the last 30 years and proposals to slash bed numbers even further will make the ‘NHS a...

MORE than 12,000 OPSEU (Ontario Public Service Employees Union) college faculty members have been striking at 24 Ontario colleges since Monday October 16. The over...

THE Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu), the biggest union in South Africa’s ‘platinum belt’, says that Marikana has once again become a...

MEMBERS of the University and College Union (UCU) will walk out on strike on Monday and Tuesday against moves by the university to sack...

ISRAELI army, intelligence, and civil administration forces raided several offices of Palestinian media outlets and arrested two journalists overnight between Tuesday and Wednesday. They also...

ON MONDAY shock figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) showed that Britain is £490 billion poorer than it was thought to be...

ALL THE talk by the Tories, and echoed by the Labour Party leadership, that capitalist Britain is fundamentally in good health economically, has just...

UNISON last Friday challenged all five Health Trust Boards in Northern Ireland to refuse to comply with a Tory government demand for £70 million...

ALMOST a third of fire safety inspectors have been cut by this Tory government, a new report revealed, leaving buildings which are potential fire...

THIS WEEK the Washington-based International Monetary Fund (IMF) issued another warning that the world capitalist financial system is on the verge of a gigantic...

THE TORY leadership is now in complete disarray, with PM May repeatedly refusing on Tuesday to say how she would vote if there was...

A DEPUTATION of Bombardier workers will be meeting with MPs at the House of Commons this morning and will press the government into taking...

THE DRIVE by the bosses to force every worker in Britain into the so-called ‘gig economy’ has hit the headlines again this week with...

AN UNDER siege Theresa May was fighting for her political life yesterday as she suggested she would not shy away from sacking foreign secretary...

BECTU members campaigning for the Living Wage at the Picturehouse circuit began nine days of strike action on Wednesday, 4th October, which coincided with...

TORY health secretary Hunt is trying to create an Uber-style workforce in the NHS, with nurses and hospital staff on flexible working hours, just...

THE WEST London Council of Action Big Bike Ride to Save Ealing Hospital on Sunday was a great success. More than two dozen riders with...