Tag: unions

The University and College Union yesterday slammed the government after it emerged that Cambridge University plans to charge students £9,000 a year fees. UCU general...

Unite yesterday cancelled plans for another strike at British Airways, and announced there will be a fresh industrial action ballot. In a statement, Unite general...

The Institute of Directors (IoD) has proposed a 24-point plan to the Tory-led coalition government to save British capitalism. Central to their ‘blueprint for growth’ is...

Trade unions yesterday reacted angrily to demands from the Institute of Directors (IoD) to end national collective bargaining in the NHS and Education sectors,...

UP to 1,500 English Defence League racists, plus foreign supporters, marched through Luton on Saturday, escorted by police from 27 forces as well as...

Anti-Mubarak protesters in Cairo yesterday have called for another ‘million strong protest’ in Tahrir Square today. This call was made as the Egyptian government and...

The British Medical Association will put ‘absolutely everything’ on the table including strike action when members determine their response to the government’s...

Without the Affordable Care Act, up to 129 million non-elderly Americans who have some type of pre-existing health condition, like heart disease, high blood...

AHEAD of today’s summit of the European Union the Greek transport minister issued an open threat that unless striking transport workers returned to work...

‘THIS IS our revolution, Mubarak is a tyrant, not a president any more!’ said angry Egyptians demonstrating in Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Tuesday. The chanting...

After more than 20 years in exile, Tunisian Ennahda movement leader Rached Ghannouchi returned from London on Sunday, with thousands of supporters greeting him. Ghannouchi...

Yesterday saw the second reading of the Tory-led coalition’s Health and Social Care Bill in Parliament, a bill designed to facilitate the wholesale closure...

‘NHS not for sale,’ angry health workers chanted outside parliament yesterday, as the Health and Social Care Bill got its second reading. ‘This bill is...

Tens of thousands of defiant Egyptians occupying Cairo’s Tahriri (Liberation) Square chanted ‘Mubarak, Mubarak, the plane awaits’ on the sixth day of their people’s...

THE 250 migrant workers, on hunger strike since last Tuesday in Athens, have been forced to abandon the University of Athens Law School hall...

TEN thousand workers and youth marched through the centre of Manchester to a rally in Platts Fields on Saturday, against the Tory-Lib Dem coalition’s...

‘The TUC is mounting a wide campaign against these mistaken policies,’ said TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber yesterday, after a special TUC meeting called...

THE TUC met yesterday afternoon to discuss pay and pensions and the planned mass demonstration and day of action on March 26 against the...

TEACHING unions on Thursday slammed the government’s Education Bill. The NASUWT said it was a Bill that ‘has all the hallmarks of being conceived by...

NEARLY three hundred migrant workers, almost all of north African origin, have been on a mass hunger strike in Greece since Tuesday demanding: ‘the...

THE State of the Union speech by President Obama was all about the theme that the only thing that can save the crisis-ridden US...

NHS London has given the go-ahead for plans to close Chase Farm Hospital A&E and the consultant-led Maternity and Paediatrics departments, despite massive opposition...

BANK of England Governor King’s insistence that nothing must be done to prevent the squeeze in living standards down to 1920s levels, has...

‘THIS response details the BMA’s position on the specific areas for reform contained in the consultation Liberating the NHS: Greater choice and control, building...

Nurses and Midwives have strongly criticised the Health and Social Care Bill published last week, calling it a toxic prescription for patients and a...

A Judicial Review into the government’s decision to scrap the Building Schools for the Future scheme opened yesterday at the Royal Courts of Justice. Six...

‘The historic printers’ strike set the scene for a struggle, not just against Murdoch but the whole capitalist state,’ All Trades Unions Alliance national...

The leak of confidential documents covering the ‘peace’ negotiations between the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and Israel reveals starkly the bankruptcy and futility of...

OVER 200 workers and youth took part in a powerful 25th anniversary meeting of the heroic 1986-87 printers strike at St Bride’s Institute yesterday. A...

AFTER the resignation of the Foreign Minister and four other members of the Irish cabinet, the Prime Minister, Cowen has resigned as the...

ANGRY Palestinians demonstrated against French Foreign Minister Michèle Alliot-Marie as she visited Gaza on Friday over a ‘war crimes’ quote attributed to her by...

ON Saturday, March 16, the printers and their supporters replied to this attack on their picket line with a mass picket of 7,000. Again the...

THE ARAB leaders meeting on Wednesday at an economic summit in Egypt’s resort of Sharm el-Sheikh expressed ‘fears’ that poverty, unemployment and recession, coupled...

THE rail union RMT yesterday called off the Docklands Light Railway 48-hour strike after it was declared illegal by the judiciary. In a message to...

NOT only the print unions got dragged before the Courts. In February 1986 the postal workers union (UCW) was hauled before the judge who ruled...

‘THAT courage is required for a turnout, often indeed much loftier courage, much bolder, firmer determination than for an insurrection, is self-evident.’ ‘It is,...

UK unemployment rose by 49,000 to almost 2.5 million in the three months to the end of November, the Office for National Statistics (ONS)...

LANSLEY’S Health Bill is a disaster of ‘Titanic proportions’ warned Unison, the UK’s largest union, yesterday.   The union is calling on the government to...

Banning NHS operations to save money will gamble with patients’ health, the president of the Royal College of Surgeons warned yesterday. John Black, one of...

THE government revealed yesterday that inflation shot up in December with CPI inflation reaching 3.7% (up from 3.3%), and the RPI rate, which...

Staff and patients at Chase Farm Hospital, Enfield, yesterday showed their support for an occupation to stop the closure of its accident and emergency,...

The scale and pace of the government’s planned NHS ‘reforms’, combined with £20bn cuts, is ‘extremely risky and potentially disastrous, warned the leaders of...

The coalition government will be forced to accept this month that the bank bailout has more than doubled the size of the Public Debt...

Hospitals could face closure to make space for private providers, warns a new report from the NHS managers’ organisation. Ahead of the publication on Wednesday...

NHS managers have warned in a report from the NHS Confederation that the Lansley NHS White Paper will lead to hospital closures and constitutes...