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TUC calls for end to poverty-level pensions

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THE TUC Congress in Brighton ended on Wednesday with a call on the TUC General Council to campaign for a state pension above the...

Public sector decimated by Tory austerity agenda says TUC

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TUC delegates at their annual Congress in Brighton on Tuesday voted unanimously to defend public services and pay. Composite Motion 06 Campaigning for public services...

TUC calls to renationalise the railways and transport

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THE TUC Congress in Brighton on Monday passed motions calling for the public ownership of transport services, action on the housing crisis and...

US Teachers Defy Strike Ban

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US school teachers are on strike in Washington state, defying a strike ban. Pasco Association of Educators have been on strike for two weeks. The...

CORBYN WELCOMED – while right wing refuses to serve

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TRADE unions yesterday welcomed the election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour Party leader. This was after the explosion of working class anger inside and around...

BA Gatwick strike threat – GMB Stansted workers strike over pay

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MORE than 300 senior British Airways cabin crew at Gatwick Airport have been threatened with the sack if they refuse to accept a pay...

Homeless Families Driven Out Of London

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15,795 HOMELESS Londoners have been forced into temporary accommodation outside their borough, a Freedom of Information request revealed yesterday. Representing a third of the 47,137...

US communication workers Labour Day fightback

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‘ON this Labour Day, CWA members aren’t taking it easy. Across our union, we’ve been mobilising for fair contracts, organising new members, fighting back...

Tories ramp up war on unions

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LESS than a week before the start of the TUC’s annual conference, the Tory government has unveiled a whole raft of new proposals to...

OPPOSE ABBOTT WORKPLACE CHANGES! says Australian Council of Trade Unions

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THE pay packets of regional workers will take a hit and communities will suffer if new workplace changes recommended by the Productivity Commission and...

10 Years After Katrina 100,000 Of The Poorest People Have Not...

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TEN years of uneven recovery have exacerbated the economic inequalities that predated Hurricane Katrina, says Louisiana SEIU local 21LA. Without a doubt, the economic progress...

End free movement in EU urges May as Tory crisis deepens!

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THE deepening worldwide capitalist crisis is driving forward revolution with seven-league boots. The crisis is threatening a new banking and industrial crash at any moment...

Forward to the Greek Socialist Revolution!

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AFTER the failure of the major Greek political parties to form a government, Greece’s top Supreme Court judge, Vassiliki Thanou, has been appointed caretaker...

Tuc Calls For Inquiry Into ‘Back To Work’ Regime

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THE Department for Work and Pensions yesterday released shocking mortality figures in response to a number of Freedom of Information requests concerning ‘the number...

Essex FBU Fighting Imposed Unworkable Shifts

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CONTROL staff with the Essex fire service, 95% of whom are women, held a one-day strike on Tuesday (25 August 2015) as part of...

Tuc & Nus Sign Agreement For Joint Campaigns!

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THE National Union of Students (NUS) and the Trades Union Congress (TUC) yesterday signed an agreement for joint campaigning for the coming year. The...

Tuc-Nus Joint Campaign Against Privatisation!

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THE TUC and the NUS signed an agreement yesterday for joint campaigning by the trade union and student movements for the coming year. The partnership...

STOP STEEL INDUSTRY BLOODBATH! – demand South African trade unions

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STOP the jobs bloodbath in the steel industry, South African trade union leaders are demanding after meetings with the government and business failed on...

Tory attack on migrants is an attack on the working class!

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MIGRANT workers who work illegally in England and Wales are to face up to six months in prison under especially vindictive anti-migrant proposals to...

Join The Political Revolution–Sanders Urges US Workers!

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US Democratic presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders called on US trade unions to rise up and join his political revolution to defeat the Koch brothers...

Disabled Must Not Be Penalised!

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CHARITIES expressed concerns yesterday after Tory plans to force a million more sick and disabled people into work were floated by Work and Pensions...

Traitor Tsipras is handing over power to the right wing!

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WITH his resignation as Greek prime minister on Thursday night, the leader of the ‘left’ Syriza government, Alexis Tsipras, has signalled that he and...

Huge Cairo Protests!

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CAIRO witnessed its biggest protests in months this week, when employees from the tax and customs authorities gathered in front of the Press Syndicate...

GPs referring more patients to Food Banks!

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THE number of GPs having to refer patients to food banks is increasing, with more than one in five having to take drastic action...

US Workers Locked Out At Twelve Plants

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THE United Steelworkers (USW) union and Pennsylvania AFL-CIO have condemned the decision by specialty metals company Allegheny Technologies Inc. (ATI) to lock out 2,200...

BBC Asian Network 24hr strike

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BBC Asian Network went on a 24-hour strike yesterday against the axing of one out of two editor posts in Birmingham and moving a...

Tories Plan Youth Boot Camps

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UNEMPLOYED youth are to be conscripted into ‘boot camps’ or face being thrown off benefits and onto the streets, in a ‘vindictive’ new Tory...

Suspend all police implicated in Marikana massacre! – demands Amnesty International

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HUMAN rights group Amnesty International says President Jacob Zuma must suspend all police officers implicated in the Marikana shooting. Sunday marked exactly three years since...

Tories plan Boot Camps for Youth

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THE Tory attacks on youth have reached a fever pitch over the past week with the announcement of more measures to be taken by...

US Presidential candidates appear before AFL-CIO Executive!

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THE AFL-CIO’s executive council meeting is this week, which means visits from presidential candidates: Martin O''Malley, Bernie Sanders, Jim Webb, and, of course, Hillary...

Big Business To Access NHS Patients Data

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IT was disclosed this weekend that by Autumn every high street pharmacy, from the local independent pharmacy right through to the giant supermarket chains...

Major Strike Action Erupting In Usa

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SOME major strike actions are taking place in the USA. In Tucson, Arizona the collective bargaining agreement covering more than 530 Teamster represented employees of...

Nagasaki anti-militarism!

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LAST week saw the 70th anniversary of one of the greatest war crimes in human history, the dropping of the two Atomic bombs onto...

Tory counter-revolution must be defeated!

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THE Tories yesterday announced that as part of the autumn anti-trade union legislation they will be stopping public sector workers automatically paying subscriptions to...

Uaw Calls For Police Union To Be Expelled From Afl-Cio!

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‘HISTORICALLY and contemporarily, police unions serve the interests of police forces as an arm of the state, and not the interests of police as...

Send Blair to the War Crimes Tribunal!

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EX-PM Blair could be made to stand trial for war crimes over the invasion of Iraq, Labour leadership front-runner Jeremy Corbyn has said. Corbyn correctly...

Tube Strike Action Tonight

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ON the eve of tonight’s tube strike action the RMT announced that it is calling for an immediate and indefinite suspension of the Mayor’s...

‘NO COMPROMISE ON SAFE STAFFING LEVELS’ says RCN

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HOSPITALS have been told by the Tory government’s regulator to only fill job vacancies that are ‘essential’, raising fears amongst midwives, doctors and nurses...

Australian companies spend millions spying on workers!

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DISCLOSURES by New South Wales (NSW) Government-owned electricity network companies have revealed almost five million dollars was spent in just four years to hire...

Fighting Words Must Be Matched By Fighting Deeds!

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LAST Wednesday, Dave Prentis, general secretary of the country’s second largest union, Unison, made a speech urging a ‘popular uprising in defence of the...

‘Popular uprising’ against anti-union laws urges Prentis!

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UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis has called on the labour movement to organise a ‘popular uprising’ against the Trade Union Bill. He delivered his call...

US Trade Unions Slam Obama Over His Upgrading Of Malaysia To...

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THE AFL-CIO US trade union federation stated yesterday that the Obama administration has made the deplorable decision to upgrade Malaysia – a major...

Time to build a new independent, militant, anti-imperialist trade union federation...

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IN THE wake of the COSATU special congress, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) has declared: ‘The time has arrived to...

LONMIN SHARES CRASH – as it announces 6,000 job cuts

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SHARES in UK mining giant Lonmin plunged after it announced 6,000 jobs cuts in South Africa as part of a scaling back of its...

London Met Job Cuts Battle

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UNISON members at London Metropolitan University took strike action yesterday in the latest round of their struggle against job cuts, as the...