Tag: employment
Government appeal against Bedroom Tax ruling is condemned
LAST week, after the Court of Appeal ruled that the Bedroom Tax is discriminatory and unlawful, Paul Rutherford, one of the appellants, described himself...
BMA CHAIR TELLS GPs: INDUSTRIAL ACTION ILLEGAL!
ANGRY GPs on Saturday voted for action over underfunding and a workload that threatens patient safety and their own health. But at the start of...
GPs must follow junior doctors lead and strike to defend ...
VERY ANGRY BMA GPs met in conference on Saturday where they carried motions to fight ‘underfunding’ and a rapidly growing workload that ‘threatened NHS...
FIRE DEATHS DOUBLE IN MERSEYSIDE! – as further savage fire service...
‘FIRE deaths in Merseyside have doubled in the past five years,’ Merseyside firefighters warned yesterday as further savage cuts are planned to their service. Merseyside...
South African metalworkers take action to defend pensions
THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) is preparing to take action, ‘including lunchtime pickets, placard demonstrations, marches and strikes’, to defend...
Tunisia Revolts Against Unemployment And Mass Poverty!
FRESH protests over unemployment and poverty in central Tunisia on Thursday raised fears of growing social unrest five years after the country’s revolution was...
Occupy The Steel Industry – Organise General Strike To Defend Jobs
THE world capitalist crisis as well as shattering the energy industries – oil, coal and gas – is also decimating world steel production and...
NATIONALISE TATA! –Occupy to defend jobs and stop the sackings
THE steel industry in the UK faces shut-down, as the capitalist crisis deepens. The demand that the trade unions must organise occupations to halt the...
Employment Minister Boles Threatens The Trade Unions!
EMPLOYMENT Minister Nick Boles announced on Wednesday evening that the new anti-union legislation will govern industrial action in the fire, health, education, transport,...
40,000 Boys And Girls Working In The Mines Of The Republic...
AMNESTY International has accused Apple, Samsung and Sony, among others, of failing to do basic checks to ensure minerals used in their products are...
UK steel industry collapse – occupy to defend jobs, nationalise the...
THE slaughter of the British steel industry continued yesterday with the official announcement by Tata Steel that it is to axe a further 1,050...
RENATIONALISE STEEL – demand workers as 1,050 jobs go
‘OCCUPY the Port Talbot plant and demand that the government renationalise the steel industry immediately,’ Robbie Wheatley, Community union Branch Secretary at Lackenby...
MASSIVE JUNIOR DOCTORS ACTION! – shakes the Tories to their core
MASS picket lines packed with enthusiastic doctors and supporters were the rule in every part of the country yesterday on the first day of...
Trade Unions Must Take Action Alongside The Junior Doctors!
TODAY’S strike by junior doctors has the support of 100% of workers across the country. They are not fooled by all the Tory propaganda that...
3 days of Tube strikes – being discussed by RMT &...
TUBE unions’ national executives are meeting today and are expected to announce a further three days of strike action over the Night Tube and...
FBU must fight against a Police Commissioner controlled ‘Fire Service’
THE Fire Brigades Union has appealed to the Home Office, which is now in charge of the fire service, to save the service from...
Nurses Urge All Out With The Junior Doctors! Adding ‘It’s...
‘NURSES should come on a half day strike with the junior doctors,’ Jenny a student occupational therapist told a mass rally opposite Downing Street...
Osborne admits UK capitalism ‘critical’ in 2016-17
IN a speech yesterday and in interviews with the BBC, the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, admitted that, contrary to everything he has said in...
Tory Cuts & Closures –A ‘Lethal Cocktail’
‘I HAVE a very clear warning: last year was the worst for global growth since the crash and this year opens with a dangerous...
Corbyn’s ‘reshuffle’ exposes weakness of left reformism
LABOUR leader, Jeremy Corbyn, completed his first reshuffle of the shadow cabinet after a tortuous round of negotiations designed to keep the right-wing of...
Kill the Housing Bill!
‘DEFEND council housing! No social cleansing!’ shouted three hundred people demonstrating outside parliament yesterday as MPs debated the Housing and Planning Bill...
Bin anti-union Commission report say Aussie unions
THE Royal Commission report into Trade Unions should be relegated to the dustbin of 2015, along with Abbott and Co,’ said Australian Construction, Forestry,...
2016–Year For Revolution!
NEW YEAR’S MANIFESTO by the News Line Editorial Board THE News Line Editorial Board sends its revolutionary greetings for the New Year of 2016 to...
Real wages 13.6% drop!
THERE has been a 13.6% drop in the real value of average earnings of full time workers in employment in the UK between April...
Fallon Wants Lawless Army!
UK DEFENCE Secretary Michael Fallon yesterday called for withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph he...
‘KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF OUR HOSPITAL’ – mass picket issues warning...
‘KEEP your hands off our hospital! This hospital belongs to the public, not the government!’ Kaushalya Gussar declared at the mass picket of Ealing...
Defend the Fire Service, the Ambulance Service and the Welfare State!...
THE general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU), Matt Wrack, has warned that proposals from Home Secretary Theresa May, to bring fire and...
Junior doctors & nurses fight for their rights
‘FOR students like me from a working class background, removing the bursary for nurses will mean that they cannot continue their studies,’ student nurse...
Tory Cuts Produce ‘Chronic Shortage Of Teachers’
AS schools prepare to break up for the Christmas holidays, new analysis by the Labour Party reveals the impact of the chronic shortage of...
Stop Bombing Syria! 10,000 March In Central London!
‘STOP bombing Syria! Welfare not warfare! David Cameron shame on you! Hilary Benn shame on you!’ shouted crowds at the end of a 10,000-strong...
Plan to evict council tenants
THE government is planning to end the right of council tenants to stay in their homes for life. An amendment to the Housing Bill,...
Shrewsbury trial and jailing ‘a conspiracy at the very heart...
THE government has rejected calls to release confidential files relating to the Shrewsbury 24, who were charged with various offences after the first national...
NEXT SLASHES WAGE BILL – employs hundreds of cheap labour apprentices
MONDAY night’s Channel 4 Dispatches programme claimed the Next shopping chain has slashed £2.5m off its wage bill by employing hundreds of low-earning apprentices,...
Hand academies back to councils
‘ALL ACADEMIES must be handed back to local council control’, Hank Roberts past national president of ATL said yesterday. He was speaking after Tory Education...
UK manufacturing wiped out admits EEF while BIS warns of debt...
THE Engineering Employers Federation (EEF), the body that represents the manufacturing industry in Britain, has produced its latest forecast which spells out how the...
‘Turkey Is The Main Destination For Isis Oil!’
THE Russian Deputy Defence Minister Anatoly Antonov has given a briefing called ‘Russian Federation Armed Forces fighting against international terrorist. New data’. He said:...
South Korean workers defy protest ban
SOUTH Korea’s umbrella labour unions are defying a government ban and have pledged to push ahead with organising another massive rally on December 5th,...
STUDENT NURSES ANGRY – at Tory-imposed tuition fee debt
STUDENT nurses and midwives are furious that under new proposals to scrap bursaries, they could potentially be burdened with £65,000 worth of debt for...
TUC’s weak response to Osborne’s attacks in his Autumn Statement!
TRADE union leaders responded weakly, without any call to action, to Chancellor Osborne’s Autumn Statement on Wednesday, in which he announced a massive extension...
Revolution the only way out of capitalism’s debt crisis
NEXT week, the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, will be announcing the results of his spending review to parliament, outlining £20 billion of austerity cuts...
‘Only Syrians can choose their president’ Assad
PRESIDENTIAL elections should be ‘about what the consensus is among the Syrians’ President Bashar al-Assad said in an extensive interview to Italian TV channel...
West Midlands firefighters strike looms – over 300 jobs threatened
FIREFIGHTERS in the West Midlands have warned they could be forced to take industrial action over plans to cut 300 firefighting posts, leaving the...
Striking Sa Parliamentary Staff Demand Removal Of Parliament Secretary
STRIKING South African parliamentary staff on Friday said they would no longer negotiate with the unpopular secretary of the legislature Gengezi Mgidlana and demanded...
Sanders secures US postal union endorsement –boycot Wendy’s demands Fair Food...
VERMONT Senator Bernie Sanders secured the 200,000-member American Postal Workers Union endorsement to be the Democratic Party presidential candidate on Thursday. The union’s decision gives...
EU economy at the end of the road
THE economy of the Eurozone countries is sinking even deeper into crisis making a mockery of all the talk about an economic ‘recovery’. This was...