Tag: scotland

GMB is celebrating a landmark legal victory over German-owned, low-cost supermarket Lidl. The Central Arbitration Committee (CAC), the independent tribunal with statutory powers over trade...

FIVE further days of strike action have been confirmed by train union RMT over the removal of all guards from Govia Thameslink trains. Driver...

UNITE has warned that ‘shameful’ agency practices towards workers at Sports Direct have contributed to its falling profits and reputation. The high street retailer, which...

‘THERE are massive fights ahead as political and economic turmoil rages,’ the leader of the RMT railway workers’ union Mick Cash warned his union’s...

CAMBRIDGE University lecturers are striking tomorrow in the increasingly bitter tidal wave of strikes being waged nationally by the University and College...

YESTERDAY British capitalism was rocked to its core as the consequences of the massive Brexit vote to leave the EU emerged. Tory leader Cameron...

ON THE second day of the ScotRail strike, the RMT revealed that the Dutch-state parent company and top bosses are raking it in at...

MEMBERS of the University and College Union (UCU) at the University of Bath and the University of Bristol are joining the latest wave of...

SO dire is the Tory crisis over the EU referendum that Cameron and pro-EU Tories have been forced to ‘step-back’ from the leadership of...

AN INVESTIGATION is being launched which will examine the activities of an MI5 agent known as ‘Stakeknife’ who has been linked to 50 murders...

IT would be a ‘very dangerous experiment’ for the UK to give Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn power, Tony Blair has told the BBC’s This...

‘SAVE Our Steel!’ shouted over one thousand steel workers as they marched through central London from the Embankment to Parliament yesterday afternoon. They were joined...

BMA Junior Doctors’ Committee Chair Dr Johann Malawana admitted on Saturday that despite gigantic efforts to find ‘common ground,’ no agreement could be reached...

IT says something about the scale of the defeat that the Tories and the bosses have suffered over the Mayoral election in London...

‘THIS is a huge government climb-down and is a testament to the campaigning of teachers and parents,’ Kevin Courtney, Deputy General Secretary of the...

MORE than half (52%) of school support staff across the UK have experienced stress, anxiety or depression as they struggle to cope with their...

THE British Medical Association (BMA) is warning that the future of the medical workforce is at risk. This comes as a new survey of medical...

‘HUNGRY pupils mean we risk returning to a Victorian era rife with inequality,’ a survey by teachers union ATL has found. Almost four in ten...

THE NEW financial year was ushered in yesterday with a series of price hikes that hit working class families hard. Council Tax went up, water...

THE decision by the bosses to sell off Tata Steel is one that will lead not just to poverty for 19,000 workers and...

This Easter is the centenary of the Easter Rising in Dublin of 1916.. In Britain’s first, and indeed its last, imperialist dominion the flag of...

LECTURERS at further education colleges across Scotland are to begin an indefinite series of strikes, taking three days of strike action every single week...

‘SHUT down Harmondsworth immigration centre!’ demanded the Movement for Justice yesterday, in response to a damning report which exposed the centre as being...

HUNDREDS of British Airways workers are demonstrating outside the airline’s Heathrow HQ today against the outsourcing and offshoring of their jobs to Tata Consultancy...

GMB British Airways workers will hold a public meeting and rally from 12.30pm on Monday 29th February at the Thistle Hotel, Heathrow, against proposals to...

WHEN one of the biggest banks in the world is forced to publish an open letter to staff, investors and depositors that, contrary to...

THE world capitalist crisis as well as shattering the energy industries – oil, coal and gas – is also decimating world steel production and...

THE steel industry in the UK faces shut-down, as the capitalist crisis deepens. The demand that the trade unions must organise occupations to halt the...

SIX HUNDRED extra armed officers are to be trained and put on the streets of London in case of ‘terrorist attack’, bolstering the...

IN his November Autumn statement, Chancellor Osborne was full of optimism that the crisis of world and British capitalism was being resolved, with his...

‘WHAT is the NHS? To those who run it, a vast endeavour employing 1.4m people, consuming one pound in every six of public spending....

AN increasing number of pupils in Scotland are going to school hungry and a number are displaying signs of stress and lethargy, according to...

THERE has been a 13.6% drop in the real value of average earnings of full time workers in employment in the UK between April...

LEAVING the EU could lead to the break up of the UK, said former Tory leader and former Foreign Secretary, William Hague yesterday. Since the...

THE Oil and Gas Authority on Thursday awarded a raft of new licences to explore for oil and gas on the mainland of the...

A STUDY published this week in the British Journal of General Practice shines a searchlight on one of the main causes of ‘health inequality’...

SEVERE Tory spending cuts are putting the future of local government, children’s services, health care and care for the elderly at risk of collapse,...

THE Metropolitan Police has made an ‘unreserved apology’ and paid an undisclosed amount in compensation to seven women who were tricked into long-term relationships...

AS the Tory government freezes school funding, a National Union of Teachers (NUT) survey shows the shocking impact of cuts so far. A survey of...

HEAVILY ARMED special SAS forces were ordered onto the streets of the UK, yesterday and told to ‘shoot on sight’ suspected terrorists as the...

‘EVERYONE, all of the country, must get organised to take rent strike action, we have shown that rent strikes work,’ Angus O’Brien, the student...

SCOTTISH Labour yesterday struck a blow at the war plans of British imperialism when its Perth conference decided to call for the Trident nuclear...

THE Scottish Labour Party conference yesterday voted overwhelmingly against the renewal of the UK’s Trident nuclear missile system. After a heated debate, delegates voted by...

OVER 4,000 junior doctors and their supporters staged a three-hour mass rally outside the City Art Gallery in the centre of Leeds on Wednesday...

THE Tories this week pushed through parliament their plans for ‘English votes for English laws’ under which only English MPs would have the right...