Tag: local government

‘THEY are tearing the heart out of the hospital,’ said Epsom and St Helier NHS Unison branch secretary Kevin O’Brien yesterday. He was responding to...

THE Coalition government is busily building a paradise for the landlords, the latest Shelter Rent Report shows. In this paradise, private tenants, who can no...

LEADERS of Indonesian FSP-KEP (SPSI), the trade union of Chemical, Energy, and Mine Workers (CEMWU), have officially extended a 30-day strike at the world’s...

UNISON has held a series of meetings across the North West in their campaign to defend NHS workers’ pensions. Thousands of NHS employees have...

WORKERS in Greece are building up a tremendous multi-form action front, with occupations of ministries and state buildings, strikes and demonstrations, against the barbaric...

UNISON, the UK’s largest public sector union, on Monday welcomed a report from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) calling on the...

UNISON yesterday called on peers to oppose the Health Bill today, during its second reading in the House of Lords today. The UK’s largest public...

THE fact that 40 per cent of disabled children are living in poverty is ‘a scar on the conscience of Britain’, says Unite, the...

A SUSTAINED campaign of industrial action by members of the University and College Union (UCU) in 67 of the UK’s best-known universities will start...

50,000 Greek civil servants and public sector workers on Wednesday staged a successful 24-hour national strike and a big march through Athens against the...

STRIKE action took place on Tuesday across the three campuses of Middlesex University with lecturers and staff picketing every entrance against the threat of...

THE Tory-LibDem Health and Social Care Bill will cause ‘irreparable harm’ to the NHS, 400 leading doctors, consultants and public health experts have written,...

MONDAY saw the conclusion of one of the two legal processes challenging Basildon Council’s planned eviction of the Dale Farm community. ‘The case, which halted...

EGYPT'S Public Transport Authority workers on Saturday announced the beginning of an open-ended sit-in outside cabinet headquarters on Cairo’s Qasr al-Ainy Street, following a...

A NORTH East London Council of Action conference of over 150 workers, pensioners and youth on Saturday voted unanimously for an occupation of...

STRIKING teachers at Kingsbury High School in north-west London were joined on the picket line by parents and students yesterday morning as they showed...

THE Palestinian foreign minister said on Thursday that eight Security Council members are guaranteed to vote in favour of the Palestinian bid for full...

YESTERDAY the main trade union leaders were full of praise for Miliband’s conference speech. This was no doubt an expression of relief that he...

PALESTINIAN envoys are battling for UN Security Council votes to back their effort to win full UN membership, while the United States is...

IN THE middle of the greatest ever capitalist crisis, Labour leader Miliband, while the ruling class is attacking and robbing the working class...

DALE Farm residents won another reprieve in the High Court yesterday, after a judge ruled that Basildon Council hadn’t been sufficiently clear in its...

PRESIDENT Mahmud Abbas waved to the crowd of tens of thousands during a celebration in Ramallah, upon his return from the UN General Assembly...

OVER 5,000 university students and public sector workers held an impressive and militant rally and march in Athens last Thursday against the government’s plans...

IN mass general meetings last Tuesday the Athens transport trade unions in the Metro system, buses, trolley-buses, and trains decided on a total ‘rolling’...

THE NORTH EAST London Council of Action won big support yesterday at the picket of Chase Farm Hospital with its demand that the...

LIBDEM Health Minister Burstow declared on Monday night that the coalition government was ‘right’ to announce the closure of Chase Farm Hospital ‘after years...

THE NORTH EAST London Council of Action won big support yesterday at the picket of Chase Farm Hospital with its demand that the hospital...

DALE Farm residents won an injunction late yesterday, restraining police and bailiffs from dismantling structures on the site until a hearing at the High...

THE Egyptian military authorities expansion of the emergency law is the greatest erosion of human rights since the revolution forced the resignation of...

BMA chairman Dr Hamish Meldrum has been rocked by a ‘no confidence’ vote at last week’s meeting of the London Region of the BMA. ...

NICOLAS Sarkozy and David Cameron, with delegations of businessmen plus NATO officers, visited Tripoli yesterday to try to shore up the split and divided...

SARKOZY and Cameron visited Tripoli yesterday, not to celebrate any illusory ‘victory’, but to shore up the NTC counter-revolutionaries, who are already fighting amongst...

COLONEL Gadaffi has sent a special appeal to the UN Security Council to halt the huge attacks on Sirte. In a message, attributed to the...

OVER four million public sector workers are set to strike over pensions this November, after trade union leaders announced at the TUC congress yesterday...

DELEGATES passed motion 51 on ‘Southern Cross and the Care Sector’ yesterday morning at the TUC. It called for ‘robust regulation’, ‘all care homes to...

TRADE union delegates at the TUC Congress in London on Monday supported the call from the North East London Council of Action to occupy...

HEALTH Secretary Lansley and the coalition have decided to close Chase Farm as a District General Hospital and move out its A&E. Maternity and...

THE TUC Congress yesterday instructed the TUC General Council to support and coordinate joint strike action against attacks on jobs, pensions, pay and public...

AT A press conference last Thursday on the just published report by Sir William Gage on the Baha Mousa Public Inquiry, lawyers issued a...

GREEK students are deepening and extending their fight against the government’s Education Law passed by the Greek Vouli (parliament) last month. Over 300 university...

DAMASCUS – Musa Ibrahim, the Libyan government spokesman, gave a telephone interview last Monday with Iraqi businessman and owner of Damascus-based and pro-Al-Gadaffi Al-Ra’y...

AS the Health and Social Care Bill undergoes its third reading, 400 GPs have signed a letter calling for a massive campaign to secure...

BEDFORDSHIRE Council’s ultimatum to employees to sign new wage-cutting contracts or face the sack has been met with defiance by council workers, who...

A CONCERNED Palestinian family has called on the Red Cross to obtain news of Hudhayfah Jarrar, 21, from Jenin, as Israeli occupation authorities have...

BMA Council Chairman, Dr Hamish Meldrum, yesterday wrote to all MPs warning them that the government’s health reforms still present an ‘unacceptably high risk...