Tag: local government

WANDSWORTH Council’s plan to sell off four acres of playing fields at Elliot Secondary School in Putney is an absolute scandal, said the GMB...

Doctors will be balloted on industrial action short of a strike, after the government failed to return to meaningful talks on NHS pensions, the...

The ‘Friends of Syria Conference’ in Tunis has seen the representatives of the United States and the UK, Clinton and Hague, laying into Russia...

Israeli forces clashed with Palestinians in Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Friday, exchanging a volley of tear gas and rocks. Israeli troops entered the Haram...

Yesterday, local government employers confirmed that they are to impose a pay freeze for the third year running on 1.6 million council workers. Unison, Unite...

Employees in public universities and colleges in the West Bank and Gaza Strip entered the third day of a strike on Wednesday. Head of the...

LOCAL government pay has been slashed to 1990’s levels by below inflation pay settlements, a two-year pay freeze and the employers’ failure to pay...

Yesterday six trade unions appeared at the Royal Courts of Justice to appeal against a High Court decision that the coalition government will slash...

YET when we look around us now, what is there to see but a world where the epoch-making events of just a year ago...

‘HEALTH unions must now do what their members want and organise industrial action to defeat this bill,’ leading BMA member Anna Athow demanded yesterday. She...

THE Libyan people are being told that they must celebrate the first anniversary of the ‘revolution’ (in fact, counter-revolution) that has destroyed their country,...

Civil servants’ union, PCS has slammed ‘the unfairness of the government paying huge salaries and bonuses to senior civil servants, sometimes even helping them...

The British Medical Association (BMA) has requested an urgent meeting with the Chief Secretary to the Treasury in a further effort to re-start talks...

REGIONAL NHS ‘risk assessments’ have been published showing the fears that NHS managers have of the consequences of the government’s Health and Social Care...

‘Israel is implementing a strategy of Judaisation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories,’ Professor Raquel Rolnik, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing,...

BRITAIN’S credit-worthiness has a ‘negative outlook’ Moody’s ratings agency declared late on Monday night, shortly after the markets closed in the US. In the first...

Although vicious austerity measures were voted for by a 199–74 majority in the Vouli (parliament) on Sunday night, the Greek ‘bailout’ is still not...

the Centre for Trade Union and Workers’ Services (CTUWS) issued the following rallying call ahead of Egypt’s General Strike called for tomorrow, Saturday 11th...

There is an underground bunker in the South Hebron Hills, camouflaged by bracken and heavy sacks, where a tiny Palestinian village is sheltering a...

PROTESTERS rallied across the West Bank on Saturday, criticizing government policies that have lead to a rise in living costs. In Hebron, hundreds marched from...

‘the BILL remains fundamentally flawed and should be withdrawn,’ the BMA doctors’ union said yesterday. ‘Amendments amounting to little more than minor tweaking have not...

YESTERDAY, the Labour Party leader Miliband wrote in the Observer that ‘Everyone who loves the NHS must fight to defeat this health bill. This...

US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta believes there is a ‘strong likelihood’ that Israel will strike Iran’s nuclear installations this spring, the Washington Post said...

‘We have three months to prevent great harm being done to the NHS,’ Labour leader Ed Miliband said yesterday. In an article for the Observer,...

‘We are preparing for a huge battle,’ said the South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) at the weekend. In an extensive statement, SAMWU said: ‘Our...

The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), the UK’s largest medical Royal College, yesterday wrote to Prime Minister Cameron calling for the complete withdrawal...

An Islamabad-based human rights charity called on Wednesday on Pakistan’s Government to demand the adoption of a UN resolution requiring that the USA stops...

DOZENS of people threw shoes and stones at UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s convoy as it entered the Gaza Strip on Thursday. Many of those...

‘It is essential that the Health Bill is scrapped. Unison is completely opposed to the Health Bill. We are right behind the doctors who...

FOUR hundred Occupy Oakland protesters were arrested following clashes with police in the Northern California city last Sunday. Across the US and Europe occupy protesters...

Residents of a Nablus village announced on Sunday they would start a hunger strike to protest against Israeli demolition orders and confiscation of their...

After a joint meeting on Thursday hosted by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, British Medical Association and Royal College of Nursing, the following...

ON DAY 13 of the daily picket of Chase Farm Hospital, which has been called to prepare for occupation to stop its closure,...

THE Trade Union Reform Campaign (TURC) is a vehicle for discredited Tories to pursue an ultra-right wing agenda, but it is the true face...

HUNDREDS of thousands of Egyptian workers and youth gathered in Cairo’s Tahrir Square yesterday to mark one year since the start of the revolution...

Israeli forces on Monday detained two Palestinian MPs during a raid on the Jerusalem headquarters of the International Red Cross. Mohammad Tawtah and former Jerusalem...

campaigners lobbied the House of Lords yesterday demanding ‘no going back to Dickensian days’. They also chanted ‘Defend Child Benefit for all’, ‘Oppose all benefit...

A report issued on Monday by the independent Resolution Foundation spells out exactly the desperate situation being faced today by the so-called ‘squeezed middle’,...

Some 50 political movements, groups and parties in Egypt last Friday launched a week of mass protests and marches to commemorate, not celebrate, the...

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg yesterday made it clear the coalition will press ahead with its Health and Social Care Bill, despite massive opposition...

Government cuts have seen two NHS hospitals call for Army medics to help them maintain an A&E service. NHS trusts in Yorkshire and Mid-Staffs cite...

Between 1st January 2011 and 31 December 2011 there were 335 labour protests in Egypt, said a report issued by the Egyptian Ministry of...

DOCTORS have made an overwhelming call to their leaders to reject the government’s proposed changes to the NHS Pension Scheme and shown a willingness...

Anti-capitalist occupiers camped outside St Paul’s cathedral went down to the High Court on Monday in support of the Parliament Square occupiers who are...

UNITE leader Len McCluskey has pointed out correctly some of the immediate implications of the Miliband-Balls line that Labour will honour and continue with...