Tag: strike
IRANIAN DISASTER – 140 killed as plane crashes into flats
140 people were killed yesterday when an Iranian military aircraft crashed into a block of flats in a residential area in the south of...
1,000 MARCH FOR SACKED GATE GOURMET WORKERS – GMB fully supports...
AT the rally in the Dominion community centre in Southall, after the over 1,000 strong march, a 17 strong panel of trade union and...
Abbas Accepts Italy’s Offer To Host Peace Talks
President Mahmud Abbas on Friday accepted Italy’s offer to host Palestinian-Israeli peace talks, urged international commitment to the UN-adopted ‘roadmap’ peace plan, the Palestine...
3,000 NHS Jobs At Risk
THE Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday warned that 3,000 NHS jobs, including 1,000 nurses’ jobs, are under threat. This was after the government announced...
US Torture Flights – Questions Go Unanswered
LIBERTY has written letters to the Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, and to British police chiefs about the US’ ‘extraordinary rendition’ programme and the use...
END TORTURE FLIGHTS! – Liberty demands of Straw and police chiefs
Yesterday human rights group Liberty called on Foreign Secretary Jack Straw to seek assurances in the next 14 days from the USA that it...
‘Comrade Trotsky’s Report On The Red Army’
Report of Comrade Trotsky on the development of the Red Army In this speech, made in 1919, Leon Trotsky reviews the development of the Red...
Brown pledges all to the CBI
‘Let me start by thanking you – directors, executives, managers representing companies from all over the UK – for the contribution you are making...
Chancellor Brown To Scrap Pensions Deal
EX-CBI bosses leader Lord Turner’s report into the future of pensions – commissioned by the Blair government – is due to be published on...
MARCH WITH US THROUGH SOUTHALL say locked-out Gate Gourmet workers
LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers are calling on the whole trade union movement to join them on their march through Southall on Sunday December...
MAKE OUR DISPUTE OFFICIAL say Gate Gourmet locked-out workers
A DELEGATION of Gate Gourmet locked out workers is due to meet the TGWU head of civil aviation, Brendan Gold, at the union’s head...
GM MASS SACKINGS – IBC Luton in danger warns Dave Wiltshire
General Motors yesterday announced plans to close nine plants, cut shifts and axe 30,000 jobs across North America by 2008. GM Chairman and CEO Rick...
US workers need revolutionary leadership
A CRISIS, with the most revolutionary implications for the working class, is erupting in the US, with GM, the world’s biggest motorcar producer announcing...
Gate Gourmet Admits 3-Stage Deal Defeated!
GATE GOURMET, the firm that locked out over 700 of its workers in a pre-planned onslaught on August 10, admitted yesterday that the locked...
Gourmet locked-out workers smash Woodley-Barber ‘compromise’ deal
THE Gate Gourmet catering company was forced to admit on Saturday that the ‘sweetheart’ deal, which the leaders of the TGWU and the ...
Don’t sign the rotten ‘compromise’ deal
Locked out Gate Gourmet workers are angry that TGWU officers are putting pressure on those who have been selected by the company for compulsory...
INVESTIGATE MET BOSS BLAIR – IPCC urges Home Secretary
The Jean Charles de Menezes Family Campaign issued a statement yesterday claiming a victory in their fight for the full truth about the police...
18 YEARS SINCE THE KINGS CROSS FIRE RMT, ASLEF and the...
EXACTLY 18 years after the King’s Cross fire, Britain’s rail and firefighting unions on Friday launched a joint campaign to keep in place essential...
STOP NHS CUTS! – Hewitt planning winter hospital closures
Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt is planning to shut down ‘failing’ NHS hospitals this winter in the face of a predicted £700m NHS deficit in...
INJUSTICE! – Clarke orders Babar Ahmad extradition
Babar Ahmad has called ‘for this injustice to be avenged’ after Home Secretary Charles Clarke ordered his extradition to America to face trumped up...
WE WANT ALL OF OUR JOBS BACK insist Gate Gourmet workers
GATE Gourmet workers are very angry that their union, the TGWU, is still urging them to sign the Compromise Agreement deal negotiated with the...
‘Continue The March To Raise The Palestinian Flag Over Jerusalem’
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas last Friday pledged to continue Yasser Arafat’s struggle to establish a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, as thousands...
Trade unions must strike to defend the NHS!
TOMORROW Central Surrey Health (CSH), a private company set up by nurses and therapists, will find out whether they have won the £22m contract...
TGWU leaders still pushing ‘compromise agreement’
LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers were very angry on the picket line at Heathrow Airport yesterday when letters from the TGWU solicitor advising them...
Leon Trotsky’s CLASS AND ART Final part: ‘Tactics in Literature’
THIS speech was delivered on May 9, 1924 during discussions at the Press Department of the Central Committee of the RCP(B) on Party Policy...
Mass Picket At Gate Gourmet
There was a big picket of over 200 locked out Gate Gourmet workers at Heathrow airport yesterday. Locked out worker Ramesh told News Line:...
TGWU register 735 tribunal cases
THERE was a mass picket of over 200 locked out Gate Gourmet workers at Heathrow airport yesterday. Senior shop steward Mr Dhillon told News...
Delphi Battle Looms For US Trade Unions
THE battle lines are being drawn up in the United States between the vanguard of the working class in the auto industry and the...
‘MORE COPS WON’T SOLVE ANYTHING’ – say defiant French youths
‘More repression means more destruction’, said defiant French youths yesterday, in answer to the state-of emergency announced by Interior Minister Nicholas Sarkozy. They said curfews...
Locked-out workers demand action as French unions strike against BA
GATE GOURMET workers were yesterday calling for action to win their jobs back while, at the same time, BA was opening up a second...
The army and police – a law unto themselves
The Surrey Police re-investigation into the deaths of four teenage recruits at the Deepcut army barracks has been called a ‘farce’ by Geoff Gray,...
DEEPCUT INQUIRY ‘A FARCE’ says father of dead soldier
The Surrey Police re-investigation into the deaths of recruits at the Deepcut army barracks ‘was a farce’ Private Geoff Gray’s father, also named Geoff,...
Bring down Blair regime from the left
THE Blair government suffered two body-blows yesterday. Blair’s main cabinet ally, Blunkett, was forced to resign, and the government’s 66 majority was reduced to...
Blunkett Quits The Cabinet
Announcing Blunkett’s resignation as Work and Pensions Secretary to MPs yesterday, Prime Minister Blair made it clear he had been ready to defy...
Sharon Aims For Zionist ‘Greater Jerusalem’
THE PALESTINE Media Centre reports that ‘The Israeli Knesset on Monday approved a speech by the Prime Minister Ariel Sharon that vindicated his “defense”...
General Council must support locked out Gate Gourmet workers
ON Monday September 12 the TUC Annual Congress was lobbied by 300 of the over 700 locked out Gate Gourmet workers. The Congress then passed...
ADULT EDUCATION UNDER ATTACK– funding crisis means sackings and course closures,...
Lower than expected college funding poses a severe threat to adult education and those who provide it, warns the latest edition of public sector...
Hands off Iran – Forward to the state of Palestine
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has voiced his ‘dismay’ over remarks by Iran’s president calling for Israel to be ‘wiped off the map’. Annan...
Amsterdam Horror!
THE European Group for the Rights of Prisoners (EORG) was demanding answers yesterday after at least 11 people were ...
Israel calls for Iran to be expelled from the United Nations
THE Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has called for Israel to be ‘wiped off the map’. He also said that ‘a world without the...
Israel calls for the US to take action against Syria
SYRIA yesterday condemned the UN report into the assassination of the former Lebanese Premier, Hariri – a report which pointed the finger of blame...
NO TO A ROTTEN COMPROMISE! sayGate Gourmet workers
TGWU members on the picket line yesterday condemned the ‘Compromise Agreement, reached between Gate Gourmet and the TGWU leaders. Mr Sangha said: ‘The company...
Police killers escape prosecution – and are exonerated by the CPS
YESTERDAY the capitalist state looked after its own, and decided that the two armed police officers who shot dead an unarmed man, Harry Stanley,...
Opportunist union leaders sell public sector workers’ future
OPPORTUNIST trade union leaders in the health, education and civil service sectors yesterday sold out the future of public sector workers by agreeing that...
General Motors slashes workers’ healthcare
AMERICA’S largest manufacturing company, General Motors (GM), announced on Monday that its losses were $1.6bn in the three months to the end of September,...