Tag: unions

NEWS LINE congratulates the German workers who have given a big welcome to the Syrian and other refugees who have shown such an indomitable...

THE annual conference of the TUC, due to start a week tomorrow, is the first conference of the leadership of the trade union movement...

A VERY young toddler was washed up on a Turkish beach on Wednesday, while his mother was also among those drowned at sea trying...

A DESPERATE migrant threw himself, his wife and his child on to the train track in Hungary yesterday screaming that he would rather die...

HUGE numbers of anti-water-charges demonstrators marched through Dublin city last Saturday, ending with a 100,000-strong rally at the Spire on O’Connell Street, with...

THE South Carolina AFL-CIO executive board passed a resolution supporting US Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders’ candidacy for the Democratic Party presidential nomination and recommending...

FOUR Seasons Health Care, the largest provider of care homers for the elderly in Britain, has announced that it is going bust, losing £26...

TEN years of uneven recovery have exacerbated the economic inequalities that predated Hurricane Katrina, says Louisiana SEIU local 21LA. Without a doubt, the economic progress...

THE deepening worldwide capitalist crisis is driving forward revolution with seven-league boots. The crisis is threatening a new banking and industrial crash at any moment...

TENANTS and trade unionists mobilised outside Lambeth County Court yesterday to support Marian Okanlowan who is appealing against the Guinness Trust’s intention...

THE Department for Work and Pensions yesterday released shocking mortality figures in response to a number of Freedom of Information requests concerning ‘the number...

THE trade unions have won round one of the Night Tube war. London Underground announced yesterday that the launch date of London’s Night Tube is...

CONTROL staff with the Essex fire service, 95% of whom are women, held a one-day strike on Tuesday (25 August 2015) as part of...

THE leader of one of the UK’s biggest trade unions has had his vote in the Labour leadership election rejected. His voting paper has...

THE National Union of Students (NUS) and the Trades Union Congress (TUC) yesterday signed an agreement for joint campaigning for the coming year. The...

THE leader of one of the country’s biggest trade unions yesterday hit back at Labour after being told his vote on the party leadership...

THE TUC and the NUS signed an agreement yesterday for joint campaigning by the trade union and student movements for the coming year. The partnership...

STOP the jobs bloodbath in the steel industry, South African trade union leaders are demanding after meetings with the government and business failed on...

MIGRANT workers who work illegally in England and Wales are to face up to six months in prison under especially vindictive anti-migrant proposals to...

US Democratic presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders called on US trade unions to rise up and join his political revolution to defeat the Koch brothers...

RMT pickets were out at all key locations yesterday morning as the strike action over the threat to jobs, safety and services was solidly...

STRIKING unions are to be gagged as well as chained, the TUC’s general secretary Frances O’Grady has said, referring to a consultation document linked...

CAIRO witnessed its biggest protests in months this week, when employees from the tax and customs authorities gathered in front of the Press Syndicate...

THE National Living Wage could result in a ‘catastrophic collapse’ in the number of care homes, according to the five biggest private providers, Four...

THE Department for Work and Pensions has admitted lying to the public by making up stories from fictional claimants, and passing them off as...

THE United Steelworkers (USW) union and Pennsylvania AFL-CIO have condemned the decision by specialty metals company Allegheny Technologies Inc. (ATI) to lock out 2,200...

BBC Asian Network went on a 24-hour strike yesterday against the axing of one out of two editor posts in Birmingham and moving a...

YESTERDAY the main rail unions held a series of protests at rail stations which involved the handing out of postcards to commuters detailing the...

PARENTS working on the minimum wage are on the brink of a new crisis in family finances that will leave many close to destitution,...

‘I STRONGLY believe that care homes should be taken back under local council control,’ GMB rep Dianne Wragg said yesterday. Wragg is the lead steward...

UNEMPLOYED youth are to be conscripted into ‘boot camps’ or face being thrown off benefits and onto the streets, in a ‘vindictive’ new Tory...

HUMAN rights group Amnesty International says President Jacob Zuma must suspend all police officers implicated in the Marikana shooting. Sunday marked exactly three years since...

PM Cameron has celebrated his government’s first 100 days by launching an attack on the enemy within, that is the working class and their...

STUDENTS are up in arms at the soaring cost of their accommodation on top of £9,000 a year tuition fees and government plans to...

THE Greek Vouli (parliament) approved on Friday morning by 222 to 64 votes, the new EC-IMF-dictated third austerity bailout accords, proposed by the SYRIZA-ANEL...

THE decision by the British Medical Association (BMA) to refuse to re-enter contract negotiations for doctors in training will be welcomed by every trade...

A FEDERAL Court judge in Australia has granted an injunction preventing 97 workers at ports in Sydney and Brisbane from being sacked. The Maritime Union...

STATEMENT BY THE REVOLUTIONARY MARXIST LEAGUE GREEK SECTION OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL WITH fast-track procedures that ridicule all democratic and constitutional statutes,...

THE AFL-CIO’s executive council meeting is this week, which means visits from presidential candidates: Martin O''Malley, Bernie Sanders, Jim Webb, and, of course, Hillary...

USING fast-track procedures, the Greek government SYRIZA (Coalition of Radical Left) leader Alexis Tsipras is pushing through the Vouli (Greek parliament) today the...

UK registered unemployment from April to June 2015 was at 1.85 million, up 25,000 from the previous quarter while the ONS figures showed that...

SIXTH Form Colleges ‘cannot survive on starvation rations.’ One third say that they will go bust and shut down by 2020 if the massive...

PATIENT confidentiality will be violated and open to abuse, Unite union said in response to plans to allow high street pharmacies like Boots,...

SOME major strike actions are taking place in the USA. In Tucson, Arizona the collective bargaining agreement covering more than 530 Teamster represented employees of...

THE Chief Inspector of Adult Social Care, Andrea Sutcliffe, has warned that huge cuts in funding in recent years have left the social care...