Tag: unions

A GENERAL strike takes place in South Korea today, Wednesday 30th November, with President Park Guen-hye receiving dozens of letters from trade unions all...

THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) has rejected and expressed disgust at the Congress of South Africa Trade Unions’ (COSATU) endorsement...

SOUTHERN train drivers in the ASLEF union are bringing the network to grinding halt over the Xmas period with nine days of strike action. The...

MAKE it Right for Palestine Campaign Year 2017 was launched on Saturday at the National Union of Teachers (NUT) HQ near Euston, north west...

THE death of Fidel Castro, the leader of the 1959 Cuban revolution sees millions of Cubans mourning their leader who secured the independence of...

‘I HAVE never seen, in the whole world, a hospital, which is meant to save people’s lives, which is meant to treat pregnant women...

STRIKING Durham Teaching Assistants have received international support with the Europe-wide public services union EPSU sending a message of ‘strength and solidarity’. The teaching assistants,...

THE Tory chancellor, Philip Hammond, closed his autumn budget statement on Wednesday with the announcement that this would be his ‘first and last’. Faithfully obeying...

CHANCELLOR Hammond used his Autumn Statement in the House of Commons yesterday to warn that the Tory war on the working class and poor...

AIRPORT and fast-food workers are expected to be joined on picket lines by child care workers, home care workers and graduate assistants, who are...

STORM Angus, after ripping through the UK, has caused torrential downpours and flash floods that have destroyed homes, turned roads into rivers and left...

YESTERDAY’S strike by RMT guards working for the privateer Southern rail network was ‘rock solid’, with RMT general secretary Mick Cash saying: ‘The resilience...

AN AMBULANCE staff shortage has reached such a critical point, GPs warn, that very young and elderly patients are dying before getting to hospital. This...

THE TUC leadership reacted with shock when Theresa May made it quite clear that she had absolutely no intention of fulfilling her pledge to...

OVER 15,000 students, lecturers and supporters marched through central London on Saturday to demand free education for all. The largest education demonstration in years was...

TODAY tens of thousands of lecturers and students will march through central London to demand free education for all. The Tory government has pushed plans...

THE government’s hospital closure programme could be derailed if masses of people take to the streets, said Chris Hopson, the leader of NHS England’s...

THE UK’s so-called ‘elite Russell Group’ universities are the worst offenders when it comes to employing academics on precarious contracts, reveals a just released...

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka released the following statement on the results of the 2016 presidential election in which he declared his willingness to work...

HUNDREDS of armed riot police (MAT) in full gear viciously attacked a militant march in Athens against the visit of US President Barack Obama...

THE creation of new nursing assistant posts should be scrapped and money invested in ‘real nurses’, experts said yesterday ahead of the rollout of...

THE government was in the High Court yesterday where it won an injunction against striking prison staff. The court ordered prison staff to return to...

CIVIL servants working for the government’s Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) are on strike today over crippling cuts to their service: a quarter...

EXCESSIVE workload is blighting teachers’ professional lives, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT teachers’ union, has told the Union’s Cymru Annual Conference. The assertion...

A POWERFUL News Line 47th Anniversary and 76th Anniversary of Leon Trotsky’s Assassination Rally, with 200 workers, students and youth in attendance, was held...

THE TORY plan to reduce Britain to a slave labour, hire-and-fire, zero-hours economy is now being challenged powerfully by groups of young workers. With the...

PUBLIC sector workers union SIPTU has declared that it will authorise strike ballots unless the Irish Government opens talks on public service pay. SIPTU General...

THOUSANDS of public workers have stormed the Rio de Janeiro assembly, occupying the building in protest at the right wing Brazilian government’s savage cuts...

OVER 100 Deliveroo food delivery company couriers and supporters met in Camden, northwest London on Tuesday evening to discuss their campaign against slave labour...

THE Democrats lost the presidential election some time ago, when the party nominated Hillary Clinton for the presidency and pushed Bernie Sanders aside using...

THE Public and Commercial Services union has described the government’s imposition of further cuts to redundancy terms as a ‘despicable act of bad faith’...

THE UK government’s welfare ‘reforms’ amount to a ‘systematic violation’ of the rights of disabled people, according to an inquiry by the United Nations...

FOR THE first time a comprehensive analysis of the economic and social impact of the war waged by the Tory government under Margaret Thatcher...

‘CUTTING social security even further and plunging more families into poverty is simply cruel, punishing the poorest in our society for the Tories’ economic failure,’ Public...

‘THE goverment’s priority at every stage following the European Union referendum has been to respect the outcome of that referendum and to ensure it...

JUNIOR doctors have been considering more strikes after the chairman of the British Medical Association’s junior doctors’ committee resigned last Friday night, following a...

OVER 5,000 library campaigners, trade unionists, their families and supporters marched against cuts and closures from the British Library through central London to Trafalgar...

THE death toll from a fire in Pakistan’s Gadani shipbreaking yard rose to 21 last Thursday, with as many as 150 still trapped in...

YESTERDAY Tory PM May pledged that she would not allow the British people’s vote for Brexit to be sabotaged. The would-be sabatoeurs are the majority...

STEPHEN Phillips Tory MP for Sleaford and North Hykeham quit as an MP yesterday. He had a majority of more than 24,000 over Labour in...

THE TORY government has launched its new offensive in the war against the NHS, and this time it is an attack by stealth. Sustainability and...

THE JUDICIARY yesterday sought to rescue the Parliament from the people with its ruling that the House of Commons must agree before the process...

YESTERDAY’S ruling by three High Court judges that the Tory government does not have the right to trigger Article 50 is the latest and...

THE 11-day-old actors’ strike against video game industry will not end until the companies compromise on their refusal to offer some type of residuals...

UK inflation will quadruple to about 4% in the second half of next year and cut disposable income, the National Institute for Economic and...