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FBU (Fire Brigades Union) Leader Matt Wrack wrote on 6th August to Brandon Lewis MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Communities and Local...

AFTER withdrawing its embassy staff from 20 countries, the US ruling class has now launched a drone blitz on the Yemen, with three drone...

THE number of buy-to-let loans, and the amount of lending, are now their highest since the financial crash in the third quarter of 2008,...

THE British Medical Association (BMA) and Unison yesterday dismissed as ‘papering over the cracks’, Cameron’s announcement of a £500m ‘bail-out’ over two years for...

JUST days after Health Secretary Hunt was found to be acting unlawfully with his plan to close the A&E and other facilities at Lewisham...

THE Unison trade union has welcomed the Cameron-commissioned Berwick Review of patient safety and said that the government should listen to it. Unison said:...

THE US State Department has told its citizens and all non-emergency government staff to leave the Yemen ‘immediately’ due to increased threats to their...

AUSTRALIA'S Community and Public Sector Union leaders voted on Monday to extend the suspension of all CPSU election campaigning. The union called for an urgent...

GREEK civil servants staged a one-day strike in the Athens area last Friday against the coalition government’s plan to sack some 15,000 ministries workers...

THE news that over one million workers now have ‘zero hours contracts’ and work only when their employer wants them, have no holidays or...

FORMER Labour deputy prime minister John Prescott has claimed he was against NHS privatisation when he was in government and that he still is. In...

UNITE, Britain’s biggest union, says urgent action is needed to stop the growth of the zero-hours culture as new figures show the use of...

DOREEN Lawrence, the mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence, has asserted that ‘racial profiling’ is being used in immigration police stop-and-check operations. She spoke out...

FAST food workers backed by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) in New York, St Louis and Kansas City, Missouri have launched strikes demanding...

THE US ruling class has finally worked out its line on the military coup that was carried out in Egypt to overthrow the elected...

‘A SLAP in the face for Hunt’ is how Unite the union described the victory of the Lewisham Hospital campaigners in the High Court...

THE two-day national meeting of postal workers representatives at the union’s Policy Forum this week demonstrated that CWU members have gone way beyond their...

THE Communication Workers Union Policy Forum of over 500 CWU reps in central London yesterday voted unanimously for a national strike ballot of Royal...

The AFL-CIO, along with labour and human rights advocates from around the world have opposed the United States–Colombia Free Trade Agreement, arguing that Colombia...

CWU leaders and reps are meeting today and tomorrow at Logan Hall, London for a policy forum to discuss the CWU’s response to the...

WHAT the government is doing is depriving ordinary people of their legal rights,’ GMB member Ake Achi told News Line yesterday. He was speaking on...

FATMA RAMADAN member of the Executive Committee of the Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions, issued the following statement last Friday on the eve...

A HUGE contract for health services, including end-of-life care in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, is being put out to tender with privateers such as Virgin...

AMERICAN Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees union (AFSCME) leaders have pledged to ‘continue the fight for Detroit and its workers.’ In Detroit last...

HUNDREDS of people are reported to have been killed in Cairo, Alexandria and other cities throughout Egypt, and thousands injured after the army leaders...

FOUR THOUSAND workers in Britain’s network of 371 Crown Post Offices are on strike today against the government’s policy of wholesale closures and in...

COMMUNICATION Workers Union (CWU) reps from Royal Mail workplaces across the UK will meet next week to decide on actions to protect postal jobs...

IN his speech to Unite leaders earlier in the week, the union’s general secretary, Len McCluskey, effectively threw in the towel and capitulated to...

GROWING demand on A&E departments will make them unsustainable if effective action is not taken quickly, according to MPs on the Health Committee. Launching a...

ADDRESSING a meeting of the Unite Executive Council and Regional Political Committees yesterday, General Secretary Len McCluskey made clear that he intends to surrender...

EUROPEAN Union governments agreed on Monday to put the military wing of Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah on the EU terror list in a major...

THE Labour Party is to hold a Special Conference in London in March next year in which the Miliband leadershipwill seek the abolition of...

LONG-AWAITED amendments to Bangladesh’s Labour Act passed by the parliament last week fail to protect workers’ rights to freedom of association, falling well short...

IN her speech to the annual Tolpuddle Martyr’s rally held last Sunday, TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady lambasted the coalition government over the Transparency...

UBS is paying a 700 million Swiss francs ($745 million) fine to settle a case over its mis-selling of mortgage-backed securities to Fannie Mae...

US SECRETARY of State John Kerry said on Friday that Israeli and Palestinian negotiators will meet in Washington within ‘the next week or so’...

THE eruption of a mass movement in over 100 US cities condemning the clearing of George Zimmerman for the murder of black teenager Trayvon...

DETROIT, once the motor car capital of the USA where hundreds of thousands of workers used to flock looking for good jobs in the...

US federal and local government workers union AFSCME President Lee Saunders has slammed Michigan Governor Snyder for ‘suspending democracy’ in Detroit and filing for...

OVER 1,500 workers, militants, trade-unionists and youth marched through the Athens city centre to the Vouli (Greek parliament) on Thursday evening against the visit...

TORY-LIBDEM plans to ‘rank’ 11-year-olds were denounced as potentially the return of the hated 11-plus by the NASUWT on Wednesday, while they were also...

THE Greek working class has been pushed right to the brink of revolution this week with the passage of a bill in the Vouli...

SOME 50,000 workers took part in two separated marches through the Athens city centre last Tuesday afternoon as part of the one-day general strike...

UK unemployment fell by 57,000 to 2.51 million in the three months to May, leaving the unemployed rate stuck at 7.8% in the UK,...

CROWN Post Office workers, all over the country walked out at 12.30pm sharp yesterday, in an effort to persuade the government to halt...