Tag: unions

LABOUR leader Miliband adopted the traditional Tory slogan of ‘One Nation’ at the Labour Party Conference in Manchester yesterday. ‘In this most difficult economic time...

YESTERDAY Labour leader Ed Miliband delivered his keynote speech to the party conference in which he firmly aligned himself with every reactionary anti-working class...

Shadow chancellor Ed Balls provoked the fury of the unions at the Labour Party Conference in Manchester yesterday with his refusal to pledge a...

Yesterday the NHS was officially opened up by the coalition government to the vultures of the private healthcare industry, whose only aim is to...

LABOUR Party leader Miliband hit out at the trade unions yesterday, accusing Unite leadder Len McCluskey of being ‘wrong’ to oppose a public sector...

INTERNAL documents secured by the Mail on Sunday under the Freedom of Information Act, along with a report due to be issued later this...

THE Executive Committee of YENOP (the trades unions federation of the Public Electricity Board), the biggest trade union federation in Greece, decided last Friday...

BEFORE the 1997 election, the Blair-Brown gang proved to big business that they were the right men to run capitalism by conducting a war...

OTTAWA – Major unions have endorsed a mass sit-in to defend Canada’s West Coast from tar sands pipelines and tankers. The Communications Energy and Paperworkers...

HUNDREDS of thousands of workers, youth, self-employed and small shopkeepers took part last Wednesday in the mass and militant demonstrations throughout Greece as part...

UNITE’S leadership said it wants ‘full involvement’ in the negotiations over the axing of 275 managerial, supervisory and engineering jobs announced by Ford in...

YESTERDAY Greece was hit by a massive general strike with tens of thousands of workers marching in Athens demanding that there be an...

ATHENS riot police were firing rubber bullets and tear gas at workers and youth near to the Athens parliament building during yesterday’s general strike....

THE Education system is ‘sleepwalking towards centralisation’ with up to 24,000 schools and governing bodies accountable solely to the Secretary of State. New research, conducted...

‘NATIONAL Action is needed to defend the NHS & stop hospital closures!’ was the title of the resolution that was carried unanimously at a...

THE week long closure of the two remaining GM owned Vauxhall plants in the UK at Luton and Ellesmere Port which started yesterday marks...

BILL Rogers the secretary of the North East London Council of Action welcomed 100 workers and youth to yesterday’s conference in Enfield...

THE City Council of Acharnes, one the local councils of the Greater Athens area, with a population of over 100,000 voted on Thursday to...

THE Portuguese government has agreed to look for alternatives to th social security tax rise, just one week after huge anti-austerity street protests shook...

DOZENS of Palestinian youth gathered outside the Ramallah offices of the European mission training the Palestinian police on Friday morning, to protest Europe’s policies...

BILLIONAIRE brothers Charles and David Koch could be the poster boys for the big money special interests that are dumping hundreds of millions of...

Dr Kevin O’Kane, chairman of the London Region BMA told its Annual Business Meeting on Thursday night that London Region felt let down and...

THE victory of the strike of the Lonmim miners will inspire not just the workers of South Africa and Africa as a whole, but...

‘ANY attempt to break national pay rates must be met by the TUC calling an indefinite general strike to bring down this Tory-LibDem Coalition...

IN A MOVE to devastate the finances of some of the poorest people in the country, the Coalition Government is planning to break the...

CHARGES against two journalists detained after they applied for permission to hold a peaceful protest over the executions of nine death row inmates must...

‘DEFEND Ealing Hospital – Occupy Now!’ and ‘No Cuts, No Closures – Kick this Government Out!’,  were the slogans that dominated the march of...

HEALTH workers, trade unionists and local residents spoke out in support of the policy of occupying Ealing Hospital to stop the closure on the...

TRADE unions yesterday reacted angrily to the latest attack on employment rights announced by Business Secretary Vince Cable. The TUC warned: ‘Government plans to reduce...

A REPORT  issued by the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) this week exposes the appalling state of hospitals in England as the NHS is...

‘WE ARE concerned that the implementation of the Health & Social Care Act risks the fragmentation of patient care highlighted in this report,’ Paul...

TUC DELEGATES yesterday voted unanimously to defend the Welfare State, pensions, and state education. They voted for Composite Motion 8: The Welfare State...

THE TUC Congress was dominated by the growing mass anger of the working class at the Tory-led coalition policy of wage freezing and massive...

IN a historic crime a new report paves the way for the sell-off of England’s Specialist Health Services. Since the passage of the Health...

LABOUR shadow chancellor Balls was booed at the TUC Congress in Brighton yesterday when he made it clear that a Labour government would carry...

THE President of the German bosses association ASSON has called for Greece to be turned into a huge ‘Special Economic Zone’. Hans-Peter Keitel, President...

COMMENTING on the latest Education at a Glance report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Christine Blower, General Secretary of the...

TUC delegates at their Congress 2012 in Brighton on Monday voted unanimously for motions calling for coordinated strike action against cuts in jobs and...

AFTER the successful lobby of the TUC in Brighton on Sunday, the Young Socialists held a meeting at 5.00pm of 100 youth and workers...

THE Tory-led coalition is pushing full steam ahead with its plans to completely smash up the health and safety legislation and leave hundreds of...

DELEGATES at the TUC Congress 2012 in Brighton yesterday voted unanimously for composite Motion 1, which calls on the TUC to give its full...

TUC delegates at the opening of the Congress in Brighton yesterday supported the Young Socialists lobby which demanded ‘Youth Demand a Future, Youth Demand...

THE TUC General Council is meeting in Brighton at 9.00am today to discuss a resolution calling for it to consider the practicalities of a...

TODAY at 9am the TUC General Council is discussing a motion from the Prison Officers Association (who have no right to strike) that urges...

SOME 2,000 local residents, trade unionists, youth and their families turned out on Saturday for a ‘Picnic with a Purpose’ outside St Helier Hospital...