Tag: unions

‘COME and get it if you dare!’ was the defiant reply of the ERT (Greek state TV and Radio network) workers’ union POSPERT to...

THE health services in England and Wales and Northern Ireland are in massive crisis. In February, The Francis report on Mid Staffordshire hospital (MSH)...

COUNCILS in England face a 10% cut in funding from central government as part of the coalition’s spending plans for 2015/16. As well, there...

THE workers’ occupation of the Greek State TV and Radio (ERT) has led to the collapse of the Greek tripartite government. Foris Kouvelis, the...

THE AFL-CIO trade union federation in the USA has given its support to the Turkish trade unions and workers and youth who have been...

OVER 10,000 workers and youth gathered at the occupied ERT (State TV and Radio) grounds on Wednesday evening on the 9th day and night...

NEWS LINE is pleased to publish extracts from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s interview with the German Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper. Interviewer: ‘Mr President, you have...

THE occupation of the Greek State TV and Radio network building HQs (ERT) completed eight days and nights on Tuesday and has entered a...

AN Alexandria misdemeanors court on Sunday overturned jail sentences for five workers from the Alexandria Container & Cargo Handling Company. The court had sentenced the...

NATO has handed over security for the whole of Afghanistan to the Afghan puppet government for the first time since the Taliban were ousted...

THE leaders of the eleven TV, Radio and newspaper media trade unions issued a ‘Victory at ERT’ (Greek State TV and Radio network) statement...

TENS of thousands of workers and youth mass day and night in the grounds around the occupied Greek State TV and Radio (ERT) building...

THE Labour shadow education minister, Stephen Twigg, made a speech yesterday that was billed as ‘wresting’ the initiative on education from the Tories –...

ALL SCHOOLS will be academies under a Labour government, the party’s education spokesman, Stephen Twigg said yesterday. Academies, which are privately-run but state-funded, operate...

OVER 200 striking refuse workers, who have already endured three years of pay freezes, defiantly marched with their supporters through Brighton and Hove on...

HASSAN Rouhani has hailed his election as Iran’s president as a ‘victory of moderation over extremism’. The cleric won just over 50 per cent of...

THE Greek State TV and Radio building in northern Athens has become a revolutionary centre of resistance against the parliamentary junta, imposed on Greece...

PRIME MINISTER Cameron and Foreign Secretary Hague, despite the fact that the Tory cabinet and party are split on the issue, yesterday gave their...

TENS of thousands of Greek workers and youth are congregating every day and every night at the occupied ERT (State TV and Radio) building...

LONMIN Plc (LMI) is waiting to be served with a strike notice by the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) if the...

OVER a million Greeks stopped work yesterday in a general strike while tens of thousands of Greek workers, unemployed and youth rallied in front...

TENS of thousands of Greek workers, youth and unemployed took part in a general strike rally yesterday in front of the occupied ERT (Greek...

TENS of thousands of Greek workers and youth rushed to the state Greek TV and Radio corporation (ERT) building on Tuesday afternoon following the...

THE petty 5,000 fall in the number of the unemployed (that is the number of workless who are calculated to be looking for...

THE National Association of Letter Carriers’ (NALC) annual food drive collected 74.3 million pounds of food and was the second most successful in the...

ANTI-GOVERNMENT protesters confronting riot police in Istanbul’s Taksim Square and its adjoining Gezi Park yesterday, issued a call for Turkish citizens to join them...

DISABLED People Against Cuts (DPAC) organised a lively demonstration near Parliament on Monday, to mark the 25th birthday of the Independent Living Fund, which...

UP TO 800 firefighters and their supporters on Saturday marched and rallied against the closure of fire stations in London. One march set off from...

THE Tory foreign secretary, William Hague, appeared on television yesterday morning to give a less than convincing pledge that ‘law abiding citizens’ have ‘nothing...

THE House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has warned that ‘multiple’ local authorities are facing financial collapse due to government spending cuts. The...

The NASUWT and the NUT have now served notice to employers that NUT and NASUWT members in the North West of England are to...

THE General Command of the Syrian army said yesterday that ‘Our armed forces succeeded early on Wednesday to restore security and stability to the...

More than 80,000 new homes could be built in Britain each year if just half the total of £22,812m that was spent on housing...

THE Hezbollah TV channel yesterday showed a fighter planting a Syrian flag on Al-Qusayr’s clock tower while the Western powers’ surrogate, the Free Syrian...

CANADIAN Union of Public Employees (CUPE) school worker members in the City of Nanaimo’s Ladysmith school district, British Columbia, have voted overwhelmingly in favour...

IT IS now becoming obvious that the furore over parliamentary expenses and their alleged misuse, involving at least one leading Tory MP, was just...

The Turkish government split yesterday in the face of mass uprisings and a general strike by Turkish workers and youth. In Ankara, the Deputy...

LABOUR will bring in a means test for winter fuel payments for the elderly if they win the next general election, Shadow Chancellor Ed...

AS THE mass uprising swept Turkey for a fourth day yesterday, Turkish trade unions called a three-day general strike against prime minister Erdogan’s AK...

YESTERDAY the Labour shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, announced that the Labour Party has officially abandoned the principle of universal benefits in the interests of...

THE GMB yesterday condemned the forced transfer of nearly 700 northwest London NHS pathology service staff to a private company. The service carries out blood...

THE Irish trade union leaders are currently deciding whether to accept state control of their public sector trade unions, including control over wages,...

INFORMATION Minister, Omran al-Zoubi, stressed on Monday that the regional US-Israeli scheme in Syria ‘is in the last throes and it has clinically...

THE German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble warned a Paris conference of French, German and Italian leaders on Tuesday that youth unemployment of almost 25%...

Strikes by workers at museums and galleries across the country today kick off a long weekend of action against government cuts. The Public and Commercial...