Tag: strike

‘WE are going to fight to keep our hospitals, even if it means occupying them to keep them open,’ shouted demonstrators fighting plans to...

‘There will be no more NHS Logistics,’ UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis assured News Line yesterday. He was referring to the way the unions allowed...

THE crisis of the NHS has reached the point of its transformation. Because of the fake NHS pricing mechanisms imposed by Labour, NHS hospitals are...

STRIKES and protest marches are taking place at Airbus plants in France and Germany for a third day after it was announced that over...

‘THE mass picket has gone very well,’ said Bill Rogers, secretary of the North East London Council of Action, outside the North Middlesex Hospital...

GMB members yesterday went to Germany to demonstrate outside a gathering of the European Venture Capitalists Association (EVCA), at the same time as Prime...

DOZENS of angry people staged an emergency demonstration outside the Home Office yesterday, demanding the government immediately halts deportations to the Democratic Republic of...

‘THIS is a tremendous demonstration of the anger of the British people against what Blair has done in Iraq and is threatening to do...

OVER 100,000 people marched in London and many thousands more marched in Glasgow on Saturday, to demand the immediate withdrawal of all British troops...

THE real content of the ‘war against terror’ (a tool for promoting imperialist interests and for grabbing the world’s resources) has been proven with...

The mothers of soldiers killed in Iraq, along with mothers of serving soldiers, are camping outside Downing Street this weekend. Rose Gentle, whose 19-year-old son...

RUTH Kelly, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, has backed proposals to end the long-term secure tenancies of working-class families living in...

‘PRIVATE companies are raking in millions of pounds, leaving a black hole in NHS finances,’ UNISON – Britain’s largest health workers’ union – has...

Nearly two-thirds of nurses would be willing to take industrial action if they receive an unsatisfactory pay deal this year, said the Royal College...

A REPORT into the expenditure of the National Health Service on drugs, published by the government’s Office of Fair Trading (OFT) yesterday, reveals that...

‘The government is allowing multinationals to bleed the NHS dry,’ public sector union UNISON general secretary, Dave Prentis, said yesterday. Private companies are raking in...

A VOTE in the Senate of the United States on Saturday fell just four votes short of the two-thirds needed to debate a resolution...

TENS of thousands of students took part in two days of action in Greece last Wednesday and Thursday against the government’s proposed Higher Education...

TENS of thousands of students, teachers and trade unionists are expected to take to the streets of Athens and other major Greek cities on...

AHEAD of next Monday’s summit in Jerusalem, President George Bush’s administration is setting out to wreck the agreement reached in Mecca on February 8...

The Communication Workers Union (CWU) yesterday announced a week of action against the closure of Post Offices. The week of campaigning by the ‘Future for...

THE Iraqi Association of Muslim Scholars has issued a statement on the US’ Baghdad security plan. It said that under the plan: ‘First, most...

MORE than 15,000 students marched through Athens last Thursday demanding the withdrawal of the proposed revision of Article 16 of the Constitution, which would...

THE official Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) published its report yesterday into complaints against the Metropolitan Police over its huge police raid in Forest...

yesterday afternoon the British Airways Stewards and Stewardesses Association (BASSA) branch of the TGWU met in a hotel near Heathrow airport to discuss the...

US trade union leaders have hailed the adoption of the Employee Free Choice Act by the US House of Representatives yesterday as a...

LAST Monday’s branch meeting of BASSA T&G cabin crew, to gain their approval for the deal agreed by TGWU leader Woodley and BA boss...

JOHN SWEENEY the president of the AFL-CIO US trade union federation has spoken out in favour of the Employee Free Choice Act. He said...

WHAT is being termed as a coalition of trade unions (Unison, the GMB and Amicus), charities and faith groups yesterday warned Tony Blair that...

AT a time when the crisis of the Labour government is reaching the point of explosion, the WRP and the Young Socialists are calling...

Over 2,000 workers and youth last Saturday marched through Leyton and Walthamstow, north east London, against the closure of Whipps Cross Hospital. The march was...

STRIKING PCS members in Harrow, north-west London, staged pickets at the Land Registry, the local Jobcentre, Harrow Magistrates and Harrow Crown Court from early...

Thousands of university students and lecturers staged mass and militant rallies and demonstrations last Wednesday in all major cities against the government’s plans to...

‘If the government don’t give us what we want we will take this campaign further,’ PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka pledged to a packed...

OVER 200,000 civil servants from over 200 government departments, agencies and public bodies are taking part in one-day national strike action today. The strike...

THE Hamas and Fatah Palestinian factions have held their fire in the first few hours of a truce that took effect yesterday afternoon in...

EX-LABOUR MP Alice Mahon is considering taking the NHS to the High Court after the service refused to allow her access to a drug...

ON Wednesday over 200,000 civil servants and over 200 government departments will be strike bound for the day. Civil servants...

At the last minute yesterday afternoon, the Transport and General Workers Union called off today’s 48-hour strike by British Airways cabin crew. The TGWU...

UNISON has given official notice to the NHS employers Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust that 250 of their staff will take their...

HEALTH chiefs on the Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Clinical Strategy Board, yesterday denied that the decision has already been taken to shut the A&E...

BA yesterday threw the TGWU’s attempt at a compromise out of the window when it announced that all of its planes will be grounded...

‘We don’t want macho management or macho trade unionism, we want an honourable compromise,’ said Transport and General Workers Union general secretary Tony Woodley...

TRADE unionists from across the public sector spoke out on Tuesday, demanding action from the TUC to stop the privatisation of the NHS and...

THE government’s policy of mass sackings of civil servants, of driving down their wages, and of outsourcing and privatisation has driven civil servants to...