Tag: pensions

THE government’s plans to make firefighters in England work until they are 60 and to increase their pension contributions was backed by MPs, 313...

OVER 2,000 striking firefighters marched through Aylesbury on Tuesday chanting ‘Reinstate Ricky Matthews!’ The national demonstration took place during the Fire Brigades Union’s (FBU) national...

THE world crisis of capitalism has sharpened to the extent that even the staid Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has been forced to express...

‘REINSTATE Ricky Matthews!’ demanded 2,000 firefighters on a national FBU demonstration in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, yesterday. The march took place as firefighters throughout England took 24-hour...

THE Tory Chancellor, George Osborne, was described in the bourgeois press as being ‘rattled’ by the news coverage of his Autumn Statement. In fact, ‘rattled’...

FIREFIGHTERS are coming from all over the country to protest in Bucks over the sacking of firefighter Ricky Matthews. Matthews was sacked for coming out...

CHANCELLOR Osborne delivered a class war Autumn Statement yesterday which revealed Tory plans to completely smash up the Welfare State. Starting with a gloomy assessment...

FIREFIGHTERS in England have announced a further 24 hour strike to take place next Tuesday in the escalating battle over pensions. However no strike action...

WEST Midlands Chief Fire Officer (CFO) Phil Loach has written to members of parliament in the West Midlands urging a negotiated settlement be found...

THE US town of Ferguson, Missouri erupted yesterday after a grand jury decided not to bring charges against a white policeman, Darren Wilson, ...

DELEGATES to the Technical Engineering and Electrical Union (TEEU) biennial conference in Kilkenny on Sunday called on the Irish government to abolish the proposed...

SEVERAL students were arrested at the end of an occupation of Parliament Square by hundreds of student protesters on Wednesday. They were part of a...

SPENDING on Welfare over this Parliamentary term has fallen by just £2.5bn despite the Tory-led coalition aiming to slash spending by £19bn. The Institute for...

THE head of the German union (IG Metall) representing automotive workers has spoken out against Volkswagen working with anti-labour groups at its plant in...

MORE than 200 workers, trade unionists, students and youth marched through Whitechapel to Bethnal Green in central London on Saturday to the News Line...

A DAMNING investigation has found that individuals who sit on the board of the south London Durand Adademy Trust were also acting...

ONLY one in every forty new jobs since the onset of the crash in 2008 is full-time, with the other 39 either part-time...

STRIKING FairPoint workers and their supporters from across the Northeast of America held a major rally in Portland, Maine, on Saturday, November 8. Negotiators from...

WORKERS throughout Europe are taking strike actions against austerity measures in defence of their jobs, pay, pensions and public services. Following last month’s rail,...

THE Republican Party has won control of the Senate in the US mid-term elections, and now controls both Houses of Congress, turning the final...

TRANSPORT workers in three unions descend on the Tory Mayor Boris Johnson’s Office this morning to fight the ‘all-out savage attack’ on their pay...

THE firefighters union, FBU, yesterday said that they are considering strike action to defend Buckinghamshire firefighter and FBU executive committee member Ricky Matthews. He was...

STRIKING firefighters were in a determined mood on Friday evening at the start of the Fire Brigades Union’s (FBU’s) four-day action in defence of...

THE FBU is escalating its strike action tonight with four days of action in England beginning at 6pm in the sharpening fight over pensions. The...

THE number of UK children living in poverty has increased to more than a quarter as a result of austerity measures introduced following the...

THE Institute of Economic Affairs has called for draconian cuts by the government and has said that government spending will have to...

THERE will only be one fire engine based at Hove in East Sussex by April 2016 and just 12 firefighters to cover the whole...

MORE than 220 firefighters’ jobs in north Wales are threatened with being axed if £3.3m is not found over the next five years, the...

THE most powerful capitalist economy in the world is now living on a veritable knife edge, liable at any moment to crash spectacularly, bringing...

TENS of thousands of civil servants and allied workers expressed their anger at poverty pay, attacks on their pensions and privatisation during Wednesday’s solid...

PUBLIC and Commercial Servants union (PCS) members were out on picket lines since before dawn yesterday as tens of thousands came out in support...

THURSDAY’S by-elections saw voters completely rejecting the Tories, destroying the LibDems and giving the Labour Party a very stiff warning. UKIP gained its first elected...

AS working people in the US are gearing up to get out and vote in mid-term Congressional and state elections on November 4, AFL-CIO...

PENSION cuts are prompting fears of two-tier pensions being imposed on academics Staff at some of the UK’s most selective universities will have pensions up...

UNIVERSITY and college lecturers are taking action in defence of their jobs, pay and pensions. They will be taking part in strike action next Tuesday...

THE Tory party conference greeted with rapturous applause the pledge by George Osborne that any future Tory government would drive the working class into...

GREEK public sector workers staged a one-day national strike last Tuesday against the government’s workers’ ‘evaluation’ schemes which are designed to lead to mass...

ALMOST a quarter of a million civil servants will take part in 72 hours of action in the public sector with a strike on...

LABOUR Shadow Home Secretary Ed Balls, yesterday made it crystal clear that if elected, Labour would continue Tory policy to to make pensioners, workers,...

IN yesterday’s speech Labour’s Shadow Chancellor, Ed Balls, committed any future Labour government to savage attacks on all the gains of the welfare state in...

UNISON’s NHS workers, including nurses, occupational therapists, porters, paramedics, medical secretaries, cooks and healthcare assistants, have voted yes to industrial action in a dispute...

DELEGATES at the TUC Congress yesterday unanimously voted for Composite Motion 7 on Public Sector Pay and Living Standards. This includes the call on the...

‘The TUC leaders must call a General Strike, everyone is being hit over pensions, pay, and conditions,’ said David Pitt, Vice Chair of West...

IRISH rail unions on Monday warned that the dispute over pay cuts at Iarnród Éireann (Irish Rail), which brought the country’s rail network to...

YOUNG people today are under full scale attack from the Tory-led coalition. They are now fighting back. The Young Socialists are marching from...