Tag: employment
300 Brighton University students march to save lecturers’ jobs!
OVER 300 students marched yesterday against Brighton University’s decision to sack over 100 staff as part of a plan to make £17.9 million in...
Starmer Pledges A ‘Blairite On Steroids Government’ To Smash...
FORMER State Prosecutor Starmer, who has worked tirelessly to keep whistleblower Julian Assange in jail, has given advance warning of just what he intends...
‘FORWARD TO STATE OF PALESTINE’ – demand 5,000 marchers
OVER 5,000 workers and youth demonstrated against the Israeli occupation of Palestine on Saturday, marking the 75th anniversary of the Nakba, with a march...
‘The UK’s supply of long-range missiles to Kiev will demand an...
THE UNITED Kingdom’s supply of long-range missiles to the Kiev regime will demand an appropriate response from the Russian military, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov...
2.3m workers and youth marched all over France on May Day
FRENCH union federation Force Ouvriere congratulated workers for their May Day action. It said: ‘2.3 million young people, employees and retirees marched all over France,...
SA High Court orders government to halt ‘load shedding’
SOUTH Africa’s Health and Allied Workers Indaba Trade Union is relieved that deadly electricity blackouts have stopped in all health-care facilities. The Health and Allied...
Smash the Tory Anti-Strike Bill!
THE TUC warned yesterday that the right to strike of 1-in-5 workers in Britain is at risk because of the Tory government’s Strikes (Minimum...
Starmer prepares for reactionary coalition to impose capitalist crisis on workers...
THE MELTDOWN in the Tory vote in last Thursday’s local elections has sent a massive wave of despair throughout Tory MPs and the Tory-supporting...
TORIES ‘FORCING’ WEEKEND RAIL STRIKES – insist ASLEF’s Whelan and the...
ASLEF members working as drivers for over a dozen train operators will strike this Friday 12th May, and then again on Wednesday 31st May...
Starmer Is Ready To Form A National Government To Save Capitalism...
EARLY results in local council elections in England have seen Labour and the Liberal Democrats gain key councils at the expense of the Conservatives. Labour...
US debt crisis will crash Wall Street and plunge the US...
THE US economy, the largest and most powerful capitalist economy in the world, is in the grip of a crisis that will plunge America...
Tories plan to pauperise and then privatise the NHS –...
IN ITS WEDNESDAY EDITORIAL the Daily Telegraph sought to shed crocodile tears for the striking health workers who are continuing to battle against the...
NAHT head teachers union set to join NEU in national action...
On the fifth day of strikes this year, thousands of teachers, students, and supporters marched in London on Tuesday to call for improved working...
Capitalism bankrupt worldwide – forward to world revolution! – WRP General...
‘Capitalism is bankrupt worldwide and has to be brought down. In Britain there is a massive strike wave and the working class is crying...
Thousands of teachers march on Downing Street! – ‘TUC will defend...
THOUSANDS of teachers, students, and supporters gathered in London yesterday on the fifth day of strikes this year, organised by the National Education Union...
Nearly two million US citizens held behind bars – Lashawn Thompson...
LASHAWN Thompson, a 28-years-old black inmate, was found dead in his cell in an Atlanta jail with more than one thousand insect bites all...
Powerful May Day March Calls Kick The Tories Out! Forward To...
THERE was a powerful May Day March from Clarkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square yesterday with more than 10,000 trade unionists, workers, youth and students...
The US raises its $31.4 trillion debt ceiling as capitalism races...
THE US House of Representatives on Wednesday narrowly passed a bill to raise the government’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling, while also attaching sweeping, massive...
Deal Macron’s pension plans a massive blow this May Day! –...
FRENCH trade union federation the CGT is calling ‘on the entire world of work to make May Day a powerful day of demonstration to...
150,000 public sector workers strike – manning 250 picket lines across...
WITH 250 picket lines across the country, 155,000 members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada – who have been without a contract for...
US screenwriters 98% vote to strike from May Day
Film and television writers in the Writers Guild of America (WGA) in the United States are to strike on and from May Day in...
‘Spending cuts, job losses and pension attacks must end!’ – RMT...
SPENDING CUTS, job losses and pension attacks must end, the RMT told the London Mayor yesterday. The Tube workers’ union wrote to Sadiq Khan, emphasising...
‘Horrific damage done to the Windrush Generation compounded!’ – Tory-run compensation...
THE UK’s ‘hostile environment’ means that its compensation scheme is failing Windrush victims, says a Human Rights Watch report published on Monday. HWR said: The...
French pension strikes hit flights, refineries and schools
FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron is facing the biggest challenge of his second term over his flagship pension overhaul, which includes raising the retirement age...
‘We have huge support from the working class!’ – BMA pickets...
News Line spoke to two of the junior doctors on the picket line outside Cheltenham Royal Infirmary in Gloucestershire. Dr Chad Harker, BMA rep, said:...
Junior Doctors Defy Tory Slurs!
TENS of thousands of junior doctors begin a four-day strike over a 26% erosion in their real-terms pay over the past 15 years, at...
Rowley reveals scale of police corruption – time to disband the...
THE newly installed Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, yesterday stated that the Met faced its biggest corruption crisis since the 1970s. The crisis, that...
Another Warning Issued About The Criminal Nature Of The New Anti-Union...
LEADING employment lawyers are to issue yet another warning that the Tory government’s new Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill will give ministers ‘unfettered power’...
The working class must force its leaders to call a general...
PM Sunak’s new anti-trade union legislation will make the UK one of the most difficult countries in the world to go on strike, a...
Airports across France cancel flights as strike wave continues!
Many flights operating out of French airports like Paris-Orly, Toulouse, Nantes were cancelled over the weekend due to ongoing strike action by air traffic...
‘We will win this dispute!’ says John McDonnell at Heathrow
‘WE'VE won every dispute at Heathrow in recent years and we’ll win this one,’ local Hayes and Harlington Labour MP John McDonnell said when...
FRANCE: Biggest rallies in living memory
FRANCE’S small and mid-size towns have been at the forefront of the battle against President Emmanuel Macron’s contentious pension reform – in some places...
Time To Destroy The Anti-Union Laws With A General Strike And...
THE FBU has made a decisive intervention, demanding that the trade unions build a campaign to defy the anti-strike laws being pushed through Parliament...
Call an emergency TUC Congress to defy anti-strike laws – says...
TRADE unions must build a campaign to defy the anti-strike laws being pushed through Parliament by the Tories, Fire Brigades Union general secretary Matt...
Economic Freedom Fighters reject the deployment of SA Defence Force during...
THE EFF (Economic Freedom Fighters) ‘rejected’ the deployment of members of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) across the country, during Monday’s national...
Hunt pledges sanctions against benefit claimants
‘A CONSERVATIVE government believes those who can work should work, so sanctions will be applied more rigorously to those who fail to meet strict...
Budget Day strikes – demand TUC calls a general strike to...
TORY Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will be delivering his Budget speech today in the middle of a massive strike action across the country of up...
BIGGEST DAY OF STRIKE ACTION FOR DECADES! – over 500,000 workers...
MORE than half a million workers are striking today in Britain’s biggest day of strike action for decades. Hundreds of thousands of members of eight...
Solidarity action over Lineker sacking causes Tories to crumble – now...
BOTH the BBC and the Tories were in a state of meltdown over the weekend following the decision of the BBC bosses, urged on...
‘The only way forward is a general strike’ – insists Newcastle...
MORE than 10,000 NHS workers, other trade unionists and members of the public marched from UCLH hospital in Euston, central London, to a mass...
The trade unions must defend Lineker and take action to sack...
AN unrepentant Gary Lineker insisted yesterday that he stood fully with his tweets condemning the Tory ‘Illegal Migrants Bill’ and that he has no...
‘SUPPORT OUR CAMPAIGN!’ – call by NEU ahead of next week’s...
‘AFTER the regional days of strike action across the union, the next action will be 15 and 16 March, by teachers in all state...
US General Milley visits illegal occupation forces in Syria US General...
TOP US military officer General Mark Milley has visited American occupation forces in northern Syria just one day after he’d met with the Israeli...
Sunak ‘deal’ dumps Brexit – now is time for working class...
ON MONDAY night, Tory prime minister Rishi Sunak and European Commission president Ursula Von der Leyen announced that, after a high level meeting, Britain...
3.5% NHS pay rise a ‘sick joke’ says Unite
DISMISSING the government’s 3.5 per cent proposal on NHS pay announced on Tuesday as a ‘sick joke’, Unite said yesterday that ‘this will accelerate...