Tag: strike
Tories in chaos as Paterson resigns amidst sleaze accusations –...
THE TORY government was in chaos yesterday following Tuesday’s vote to disband the existing Standards Committee replacing it with a Tory dominated committee to...
RCN to hand 160,000-strong petition into Downing Street! – demanding 12.5%...
THE ROYAL College of Nursing is taking the nurses pay claim campaign to the heart of government as its ballot opens on industrial action...
Sack Cressida Dick And Disband The Met Police Now!!!
ON TUESDAY two serving Metropolitan Police officers, PCs Deniz Jaffer and Jamie Lewis, admitted in court taking pictures of the bodies of two young...
Syria’s parliament denounces the 1917 Balfour Declaration as invalid. UK parliament...
THE Syrian parliament has shown the way to the rest of the world by denouncing as ‘invalid’ the 1917 Balfour Declaration, which handed Palestine...
French And UK Workers Must Unite To Bring Down Macron And...
THE imperialist powers are not only in their greatest crisis ever, they are completely split and divided. The UK is prepared to take legal action...
‘Underhand’ plan to fire 50 Kent dockers
‘UNDERHAND’ plans to fire 50 GB Terminals workers who unload and process Volkswagens at Sheerness docks in Kent have been slammed as a ‘sneaky...
3,000 new settler homes planned! Trade unions must take action to...
ISRAEL has approved more than 3,000 new settler homes in the occupied West Bank. Settlers have spent the last weeks engaging in a reign of...
RMT victory in ScotRail dispute shows the way forward for working...
ON WEDNESDAY, the RMT transport union members won a massive victory in their fight against the ‘pitiful’ pay offer from ScotRail. RMT members at ScotRail,...
Fresh Attempt To Extradite Assange!
THE US has launched a fresh attempt to have WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange extradited from Britain to face charges that could jail him for...
Sunak Budget – tax cuts for banks and corporations – poverty...
TORY chancellor Rishi Sunak yesterday unveiled the government’s spending plans in a budget he billed as preparing the country for a new ‘age of...
Scottish strike wave during COP26 summit
Council workers in more than half of Scotland’s local authorities are striking during next month’s COP26 climate summit as part of a rapidly escalating...
RMT to strike during COP26! The trade unions must follow RMT...
STRIKE action during COP26 (The United Nations Climate Change Conference), from Sunday October 31 to Friday 12 November, is to go ahead after the...
AFL-CIO leadership attempting to block resolution on boycotting Israel
The national leadership of the largest labour federation in the USA is trying to stop one of its affiliates from debating and voting on...
Clashes and gunfire! Thousands protest Sudan military coup
THOUSANDS took to the streets of Sudan’s capital, Khartoum yesterday, to demand the release of the political leaders amid reports of clashes and gunfire....
Mass strikes in US as workers rise up in ‘Striketober’
The US working class has mobilised in an unprecedented wave of mass strikes across the country this month in what is being designated as...
Iran’s response will shock Israel – warns Shamkhani – after Israel...
IRAN’S security chief has brushed aside reports about Israel’s budget for a potential attack on Iranian nuclear facilities, warning the Zionist regime that it...
Failure To Invest Will Mean Disaster For NHS, Says RCN!
‘FAILURE to invest more now to tackle the nursing workforce crisis will mean disaster for the health and care services this winter,’ the Royal...
On The Eve Of The Budget, Workers Are Demanding Action...
THE TUC General Council has met and issued a statement on the crisis. In it, it disgracefully treats the Tory government as a potential...
3,000 March Demanding Freedom For Assange!
OVER 3,000 people marched through London from the BBC in Portland Place to the Royal Courts of Justice in the Strand to fight for...
Lgv Drivers Halt Oxford Mini
PRODUCTION of the MINI at Oxford could be severely disrupted after drivers delivering components voted to go on strike for six days in a...
Trade unions must take action NOW to free WikiLeaks founder Julian...
WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange, the man who dared to expose imperialist war crimes, must be immediately released from Belmarsh high security prison where he...
BAN ASBESTOS IN WORKPLACES! – demand South African unions
UNIONS in South Africa are urging the government to join and back a global call against asbestos use – and for a total ban,...
Reintroduce Covid restrictions now! NHS Confederation warns of looming winter crisis
COVID restrictions must immediately be reintroduced if England is to avoid ‘stumbling into a winter crisis,’ health leaders have warned. The NHS Confederation said a...
National Dock Strike! Warns Unite
UNITE is warning that the refusal of the nation’s port employers to make fair pay offers to their workers could result in a national dock...
Tories refuse any measures to limit Covid deaths – Kick them...
COVID restrictions must immediately be reintroduced if England is to avoid ‘stumbling into a winter crisis’ Matthew Taylor, head of the NHS Confederation, has...
World Crisis Driving Capitalism Into Wars And Revolutions – Time To...
WITH the US, EU and the UK capitalist economies and regimes in a growing and desperate economic and political crisis, the imperialist powers are...
Date called for nurses indicative strike ballot – RCN demands 12.5%...
THE ROYAL College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday announced the dates for the indicative ballot for strike action demanding a 12.5% pay increase. The ballot opens on...
Bank of England poised to raise interest rate as inflation spirals...
THE GOVERNOR of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, has issued the starkest warning that the UK economy faces a massive inflationary spiral and...
Massive Palestinian protest against Israeli violence
HUNDREDS of Palestinians held a mass demonstration throughout the Israeli-occupied territories to express their deep resentment over the rising levels of violent attacks on...
150 Unis ballot for strike action!
THE UCU (University and College Union) begins balloting members today for strike action at over 150 universities across the country, with higher education set...
Following renationalisation of Southeastern, the trade unions must call a general...
SOUTHEASTERN rail collapsed into public ownership yesterday with the RMT revealing the true cost of the government’s slavish devotion to subsidising private profit capitalism. In...
Tory war against GPs must be answered by the entire working...
THE TORY government has launched a vicious war against GPs. 778 GP surgeries have closed in the last eight years alone, forcing patients to move...
South African steel & engineering strike into 2nd week
EMPLOYERS in the steel and engineering industry have upped their salary increase offer to striking workers affiliated to the National Union of Metalworkers of...
British Capitalism Is Bankrupt – TUC Must Defend Wages And Jobs...
PRIME Minister Boris Johnson is expected to mount a billion pound rescue operation to postpone energy-intensive British basic industries from going under, as gas...
Italian All-Out Strike!
A 24-HOUR general strike paralysed Italian towns and cities on Monday, while 127 Alitalia flights were cancelled and public transport ground to a halt. The...
Fresh Round Of College Strikes Begins
THE FIRST day of a five-day strike yesterday marked an escalation in the college lecturers’ struggle with eleven colleges out on strike. At the College...
Nationalise The Energy Companies – The TUC Must Call A General...
MICHAEL Saunders, a member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), is warning that households, and million of workers must brace themselves...
‘Call general strike’ UCU CONEL chair Anglin tells mass rally of...
‘TRADE unions must call a general strike to kick out this Tory government,’ Chris Anglin, College of Haringey, Enfield and North East London (CONEL)...
TUC leaders must bin Johnson’s empty pledges and call a general...
PM JOHNSON’S Tory conference speech was completely empty bombast that sought to cover over the economic catastrophe that is developing throughout the capitalist system...
South Africa’s Steel Workers Take Indefinite Strike Action!
SOUTH African workers – members of the Numsa trade union in the steel and engineering sectors have embarked on an indefinite strike – recalling...
Johnson ignores the crisis & praises USA!
‘IT WAS CAPITALISM that ensured we had vaccines in less than a year,’ Tory PM Johnson boasted in his closing speech at the Tory...
Johnson speech a bombastic cover-up of Tory class war preparations
PM BORIS Johnson delivered a speech to the Tory faithful yesterday that was immediately dismissed by Matthew Lesh, head of the research at the...
San Antonio Symphony Orchestra Strike
SAN ANTONIO Symphony Orchestra musicians have called a strike after management imposed a binding new contract on them from September 13. The Texan San Antonio...
Tories Bringing In New Police State Powers For Use Against Workers...
THE LAW Courts are to get new police state powers to be used against striking trade unionists and protesting workers. The powers will stop the...
Sunak’s speech a declaration of war on workers to make them...
TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak in his speech to the Tory Party conference yesterday pledged to ‘double down’ on his plans to resuscitate drowning British...