Tag: rail

The Greek working class and youth have delivered a deadly blow against the conservative government of Kostas Karamanlis and his neo-liberal policies in Sunday’s...

ANGRY busworkers, members of the RMT, yesterday demonstrated outside London United’s Hounslow bus garage, as part of their fight for trade union recognition. Since joining...

The US and its NATO allies are planning an unprecedented increase of troops for the war in Afghanistan, even in addition to the 17,000...

DELEGATES at the TUC Congress in Liverpool on Wednesday voted unanimously for Composite Motion 2: Temporary Agency Workers, to demand that agency workers have...

THE TUC CONGRESS yesterday managed to avoid an open split over the issue of Palestine, by allowing two motions to be debated, voted on,...

GORDON BROWN had a very cool reception at the TUC yesterday. The mood was set by the PCS delegation, which held up placards saying ‘No...

LONDON MIDLAND drivers have refused to work voluntary overtime on Sundays after the company cut their pay for the day to single time. The rail...

Postmen and women were out in force on picket lines at 5.30am on Saturday all over London discussing the progress of their dispute against...

LONDON postal workers took 24-hour strike action yesterday, with pickets across the capital demanding that the action is stepped up and that the union...

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu vowed on Sunday never to repeat the 2005 removal of settlers from the Gaza Strip. ‘We will not repeat this...

‘What do we want – nationalisation, now! Organise, occupy, fight for the right to work!’ shouted over three hundred sacked Vestas workers and their...

THE Vestas occupation clearly shocked the employer and weakened the Labour government to the point where a mass struggle has to be launched by...

Workers who have been occupying Vestas Wind Systems wind turbine factory on the Isle of Wight since 20th July, against its closure and...

‘we are calling for strike action in our defence,’ occupying Vestas worker Mark Smith declared yesterday, after bailiffs turned up at the wind turbine...

‘We’re calling for a big turnout for our Day Of Action on Saturday,’ occupying Vestas worker Mark Smith told News Line yesterday. Smith said the...

‘I’M not leaving,’ occupying Vestas worker Mark Smith told News Line yesterday. He was speaking in the wake of a hearing at Newport Court where...

Workers who have been occupying the Vestas turbine blade plant on the Isle of Wight for fourteen days over plans to cut 625 jobs...

‘It was a really good march on Saturday,’ occupying Vestas worker Chris Ash told News Line yesterday. Workers have been occupying to stop the closure...

Provocative actions by court officials have angered workers occupying the Vestas wind turbine factory on the Isle of Wight. Vestas workers said it has made...

‘FANTASTIC,’ was how Vestas factory occupier Chris Ash responded to the decision at Newport Magistrates Court yesterday to adjourn the wind turbine company’s attempt...

‘We’re here to stay,’ was the message from the 25 Vestas workers occupying the wind turbine factory on the Isle of Wight on Friday. It...

ECONOMIC activity declined by 0.8 per cent over the three months to the end of June, a fall of 5.6 per cent in Gross...

‘THINGS are going well,’ occupying Vestas worker Mark Smith said yesterday. ‘People are in good spirits and we are standing by our call for...

Workers staging the third day of a sit-in protest at the Vestas Wind Systems wind turbine factory in Newport Isle of Wight, yesterday said...

THE Vestas wind turbine factory in the Isle of Wight has been occupied by workers who are determined to fight for their jobs, and...

RMT leader Bob Crow yesterday called for the nationalisation of the occupied Vestas wind turbine factory at Newport, Isle of Wight. In their occupation statement...

A MASS meeting of more than 3,000 British Airways cabin crew workers yesterday threw out by a massive majority the airline’s plans to slash...

THE moment of truth is fast approaching for British capitalism. The British capitalist economy is in its death agony with falls in production taking place...

BUSINESS Secretary Mandelson emerged from his meeting with union officials and the top General Motors management in Luton yesterday unable to guarantee the...

BUSINESS Secretary Mandelson declared yesterday morning, before he even reached the Luton GM plant, that there would be no nationalisation of GM Luton –...

Business Secretary Peter Mandelson is due at the GM Luton plant, Gate 2, at 9.30am this morning. He has been invited by the local Unite...

PRIME Minister Vladimir Putin is currently acting like a frantic one man fire brigade seeking to hose down the growing anger of the Russian...

News Line covered a number of CWU postal worker picket lines in the early hours of last Friday morning at the start of...

A SUCCESSFUL picket to stop the closure of Chase Farm Hospital took place outside the hospital in Enfield on Tuesday, attended by over 50...

UNISON yesterday demanded ‘an end to this bottomless PFI pit’. The Treasury’s decision to pump an extra £2bn of taxpayers’ money into recession-hit PFI...

Workers of Ship-Repair Yard 178 in Vladivostok began a strike on June 3rd 2009, demanding their pay. The workers have not had any money...

JOBS are now going in a huge avalanche. The Lloyds Banking Group, where the government has the major stake, is set to begin a...

TENANTS on the Heygate Estate in Elephant and Castle are furious at the way they are being treated ‘like cattle’ to be driven off...

Car parts maker Magna International was yesterday reported to have reached an agreement in principle with General Motors to take GM Europe off its...

‘Tamil Tigers Lift the Banner! Tamil Tigers Lift the Banner!’ This is what young Tamil workers chanted having just prevented the police from...

TAMILNET reports that in the early hours of Monday at around 3.00am. Vanni local time, the LTTE Political Chief B Nadesan and LTTE Peace...

US President Barack Obama has warned Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu against surprising the US with a military attack on Iran. A senior US official...

A DELEGATION of workers who have been occupying the Visteon auto parts plant in Belfast for the last month have been invited to help...

TWO of the Brown government’s big business backers Lord Digby Jones, the ex-CBI boss and Richard Branson, the Thatcherite businessman have unsurprisingly turned-coat. No doubt...

Unite joint general secretary Tony Woodley is due to visit the sacked workers at all three Visteon factories this week. The Unite convenor at the...