Tag: strike

TALKS between Unite and British Airways passed the second deadline of 12 midday yesterday. This was after BA requested an extension when the first deadline...

UNDER their ‘Business Transformation’ deal with the Royal Mail, the leaders of the CWU have reached an agreement that will make thousands redundant and...

THE leaders of the CWU are backing the deal ‘Business Transformation 2010 and Beyond – a National Agreement Between Royal Mail and the Communication...

Civil Servants on the second day of their successful 48-hour strike yesterday called for all public service workers to join in united strike action. Over...

Postal Workers are to be balloted soon on the new deal negotiated by their Union leaders. This Agreement called Business Transformation 2010 and Beyond, has...

OVER 100 people packed out Hither Green Cremat-orium yesterday for the funeral of John Breen. His wife Doreen, their two daughters, family, friends and a...

A DOCUMENT, entitled ‘Business Transformation 2010 and Beyond – a National Agreement Between Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union’, is to go before...

‘Over 250,000 of our members have turned out on strike today, the biggest strike in the civil service since 1987,’ PCS General Secretary...

AFTER calling off last winter’s national strike by their members in Royal Mail without the members’ agreement – and without their members’ demands to...

OVER a quarter of a million civil servants will walk out at the start of a 48-hour national strike today against the government’s decision...

EXTENSIVE talks have been taking place over the last seven weeks under the Chairmanship of TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber between Unite and BA,...

TENS of thousands of Greek workers, students and youth took part in strike rallies last Friday throughout Greece against the ‘socialist’ government’s austerity measures....

UP to 270,000 civil and public servants from across the UK are set to launch a month of industrial action, with a 48 hour...

DEMONSTRATIONS will be staged in eight different countries today, from Britain and the United States to Poland and Italy, demanding the release of British...

British Airways boss Walsh boasted at a meeting of selected staff at BA headquarters yesterday that he has 6,000 staff signed up to break...

THE situation for Greek capitalism has become so serious that Deputy Prime Minister Theodoros Pangalos has demanded that Germany returns the Greek gold that...

AS the regime of savage cuts gets under way, in the run-up to the general election, it is no surprise that the local government...

TO the shock and horror of the Tory Party, the latest YouGov poll shows that its lead over Labour has fallen to just two...

THE Greek working class has once again demonstrated its strength and determination with a powerful one day general strike last Wednesday, called by the...

THE inability of the Tories to pull ahead in the opinion polls, proves that 13 years of Labour rule has not been enough to...

OVER quarter of a million civil and public servants will stage a 48-hour national strike on March 8-9. Up to 270,000 members of the PCS...

RELATIVES of some of the 400 plus patients who died at the Mid-Staffs NHS Trust were unanimous yesterday about the official, just published report,...

THE massacres of the Afghan civilian population by air and missile attacks continue, proving that imperialist armies are in the business of mass murder,...

TODAY Unite is announcing the result of its second strike ballot in three months for 13,000 BA cabin crew, which is expected to show...

ROYAL Mail is about to break its truce with the CWU that has lasted since before Christmas through January and February. Latest reports suggest that...

Hundreds of angry steelworkers and their families demonstrated outside the Corus steel plant in Redcar on Teesside yesterday, as the GMB and Community unions...

AN Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said yesterday that the Iranian government hopes that the International Atomic Energy Agency will produce an unbiased report on...

DESPITE the military claims of US and NATO-led occupation troops, progress remains slow because of the stiff resistance and homemade bombs ‘everywhere’. However, the...

UNITE, the transport workers’ union, yesterday said it was calling a 12-hour strike at the Milford Haven oil terminal next Tuesday, after...

TOTAL unemployment stood at 2.46 million for the three months to December, down 3,000 on the figure for the previous three months. However, long-term...

Public sector union Unison, yesterday warned that predicted huge job losses in the public sector could wipe out vital local services such as day...

SPEAKING to students at a Qatar university during a tour of the Gulf region designed to whip up anti-Iran feeling, US Secretary of State...

Vale Inco could have some explaining to do to shareholders about the quality and quantity of nickel it is producing while its 3,000 production...

Fire Brigade Union (FBU) members in London are to vote on industrial action ‘up to and including strikes’ by 24 June. The London FBU Regional...

THE TIME is here when workers must respond to the growing chorus from the professional servants of the bourgeoisie for savage, and even more...

ATHENS – Greek workers delivered a powerful first blow to the government’s counter-revolutionary Stability Plan last Wednesday with a magnificent national all public...

‘Down with the junta of the bankers! Kick out the swindlers of Brussels.’ These were the slogans being shouted by Greek workers and youth...

The University and College Union (UCU) said yesterday (Thursday) that forcing students to pick up the bill for higher education was an astonishingly weak,...

IRAN has informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of its plans to enrich uranium to 20 per cent – after its offer to...

The Philippines Health Alliance for Democracy (HEAD) on Sunday called for the immediate release of two doctors, a nurse, a midwife and other health...

IN ‘going-broke Britain’ the number of people becoming insolvent in England and Wales in 2009 was 134,142, according to official data from the Insolvency...

ROMANIAN President Traian Basescu said on Thursday that Romania will host US interceptor missiles along its border with the Russian Federation. This latest missile plan...

Calling for victory over ruthless employers, Construction and Engineering workers from many parts of Britain, rallied 100 strong outside the Houses of Parliament on...

THE Greek ‘socialist’ Prime Minister George Papandreou has announced austerity measures to attack the country’s working class, youth, urban middle class and small farmers,...

The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) yesterday announced that it will start a strike ballot today of 270,000 PCS members working for the...