Tag: strike

THE government of President Nicolas Sarkozy announced yesterday the raising of the pension age in France from 60 to 62. Workers will have to...

TORY Prime Minister David Cameron and his Deputy Nick Clegg have declared war on six million workers in the public sector and their pensions. Clegg...

THE Greek government have stopped financing hospitals and the result is that patients cannot receive even the most elementary of treatments due to a...

THOUSANDS of British Airways cabin crew marched around Heathrow Airport yesterday afternoon waving flags, chanting: ‘Willie, Willie, Willie! Out! Out! Out!’ They received enthusiastic...

DESPITE the pouring rain, cabin crew maintained three lively pickets at Heathrow Airport yesterday, in the final week of their current course of strike...

HISTORICALLY, the term Star Chamber is synonymous with feudal oppression and dictatorship over the people and over parliament, specifically with the attempts of...

‘THE rest of the British Airways workforce must be called out on strike to join us in our fight to beat Walsh,’ said striking...

PRIME Minister David Cameron promised yesterday that there are ‘painful cuts ahead’ that will last for years, and that he would be carrying out...

STRIKING British Airways cabin crew are calling for the rest of the British Airways workforce to be brought out on strike alongside them. They are...

Over 5,000 workers and students demonstrated through Athens city centre on Thursday evening against the Zionist pirates and their murders of the Freedom...

Striking British Airways cabin crew began another five days of strike action last night. On the eve of the action BA cabin crew told...

WITH the British Airways’ cabin crew strike entering its 17th day (yesterday, Thursday), a report from a leading academic warns that BA’s brand and...

‘BRITISH Airways cabin crew are fighting for the whole trade union movement,’ striking Unite member ‘George’ told News Line yesterday. Using a pseudonym to avoid...

STRIKING British airways cabin crew are completing their latest five-day strike at midnight tonight and will be resuming their next five days action at...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas on Monday declared three days mourning, while in Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniya declared a general strike in response...

DESPITE the pouring rain, striking BA cabin crew maintained three lively picket lines at Heathrow Airport yesterday. They chanted: ‘Don’t blame it on the ash...

THERE were three really lively picket lines of striking British Airways cabin crew around Heathrow Airport yesterday, with music, flags, horns and whistles, responding...

HUNDREDS of angry protesters gathered outside Downing Street at 2pm yesterday to condemn the Israeli massacre of 19 Freedom Flotilla volunteers. They demanded that ...

ON Monday May 25th, David Laws, the new Chief Secretary of the Treasury, standing next to his master Chancellor Osborne, announced that the £6.2...

STRIKING British Airways cabin crew made it clear yesterday that they are determined to win their struggle in defence of jobs, wages and conditions,...

SPANISH Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero’s Socialist Party government scraped through Parliament its 15bn euro (£13bn) austerity package, by 169 votes to 168,...

THERE were lively picket lines around Heathrow Airport yesterday, as the British Airways cabin crew took their 11th day of strike action in defence...

Hezbollah marked the tenth anniversary of the Resistance and Liberation Day on Tuesday at the Sayyed Al-Shouhada compound in Beirut’s southern suburb. Official, religious, military,...

TORY Prime Minister David Cameron’s coalition government unveiled its plans to target the unemployed and others on benefits, depriving them of their entitlements, or...

Tony Woodley told striking British Airways cabin crew to cheers yesterday that: ‘Derek Simpson and I stand here as one behind your campaign behind...

THE INITIAL £6.25 billion spending cuts announced by the Tory-Lib Dem coalition government on Monday, that will lead to thousands of sackings and closures...

THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) has raised its concerns about Spain’s economy, saying ‘far-reaching’ reforms are needed to ensure its recovery. It said the country...

PICKET lines at Heathrow Airport were all manned successfully yesterday and there was a carnival atmosphere at the Bedfont Football Club, as a battle...

TORY CHANCELLOR Osborne provided an outline of his £6.2bn of spending cuts for 2010-11 yesterday, with Lib Dem Chief Secretary to the Treasury Laws...

‘Walsh isn’t interested in compromise. This is our eighth day on strike and it has gone on to a different level’. British Airway’s cabin...

The five-day strike by British Airways (BA) cabin crew went ahead at midnight last night after talks between the Unite union and BA management...

THE leaking of the Queen’s budget speech is unprecedented, and is an expression of the depth of the split and the cynicism in the...

Trade unionists estimated that some 150,000 workers and youth participated in the two separate marches in Athens on Thursday. The GSEE (Greek TUC) stated that...

BRITISH Airways cabin crew cheered and danced and celebrated yesterday morning. They sang ‘We are the Champions’ after their strength forced a panel...

British Airways (BA) cabin crew outside the High Court cheered and danced yesterday morning after a panel of three senior judges overturned a...

• No to the destruction of the state pension system • Down with the junta of the IMF-European Commission-Papandreou! • For an indefinite Political General Strike! Statement...

THE CBI BOSSES organisation yesterday called for an immediate freeze in the public sector pay bill for two years and a ‘re-engineering’ (destruction) ‘of...

TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said yesterday that he was ‘desperately worried’ about the High Court decision to make the cabin crew strike at...

COMMENTING on yesterday’s decision in the High Court banning the BA cabin crew strikes, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said: ‘This is a desperately...

YESTERDAY the RMT rail workers trade union warned that an all-out assault on workers’ rights was taking place as BA used the Network Rail...

The four five-day strikes by British Airways cabin crew were yesterday declared illegal by the High Court. The first set of strikes was due to...

IN RECENT days, especially after the Tories recognised that they would not have an overall parliamentary majority, we have heard many words about the...

The draft coalition agreement reached by the Tories and the Liberal Democrats published on Wednesday makes clear their number one priority is to make...

THE new Tory Secretary of State for Health Lansley was appointed on Wednesday and has immediately put on record that he will...

The unemployment rate for the three months to March 2010 was 8.0 per cent, up 0.2 per cent on the quarter, the Office for...