Tag: unions

The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) yesterday announced that it will start a strike ballot today of 270,000 PCS members working for the...

Angry Cadbury workers lobbied MPs on Tuesday, entering parliament at precisely 1pm, the exact time that Cadbury shareholders voted in favour of a ‘highly-leveraged’...

THE Greek ‘socialist’ Prime Minister George Papandreou has announced austerity measures to attack the country’s working class, youth, urban middle class and small farmers,...

MEMBERS of the Mexican Electrical Workers Union (SME) are vowing to fight as long as it takes to defeat the government’s heavy-handed, anti-union moves...

The following is the address by COSATU President, Sidumo Dlamini, to the Gaza Report-back Rally in Lenasia last Friday. ‘Almost a year ago, Gaza was...

The Bank of England is warning that high street banks face big new risks from future rises in interest rates and the current crisis...

THE Chinese government has condemned the US and President Obama for agreeing to a $6.4bn US arms sale package to Taiwan. The island of Taiwan...

As Sodexo shareholders gathered for their annual meeting last Monday in Paris, a delegation of the company’s employees and their unions from the UK,...

DRASTIC cuts to the NHS are being planned to meet a budget cut of £15-20 billion, with even bigger spending cuts expected in the...

A VERY hard pressed Obama, right at the start of his state of the Union message, was forced to summon the ‘God of Battles’...

The Pakistan Central Mines Labour Federation (PCMLF) and the All-Pakistan Central Mines Labour Federation (APLF) jointly held a manifestation on January 13 at the...

The Unite union yesterday warned that British Airways’ passengers could be put at risk by inexperienced strike-breaking cabin crew. As BA began its conversion courses...

CHANCELLOR Darling yesterday warned Britain’s public sector workers that they must follow what he called the example of the private sector, and...

Plans to allow patients to pay directly for services could undermine equality in the NHS in England, create a new layer of bureaucracy, divert...

General Motors plans to close the Opel plant in Antwerp, Belgium this winter, with the loss of more than 2,300 jobs. Workers in Antwerp...

In a 25-page memorandum submitted to the Chilcot Inquiry on Iraq, former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, said: ‘My decision to support military action in...

PAKISTAN’S army has just announced that it will launch no new offensives on its territory in 2010. At the same time the US Defence...

Staff, patients and visitors are determined to keep Chase Farm Hospital open. They welcomed the latest over twenty-strong monthly picket of the Enfield hospital site...

SCOTT Brown’s victory for the Republican Party, in the Massachusetts election for the US Senate, does not mean that US workers can’t wait to...

RECORD BREAKING UK inflation rate statistics were reported by the ONS (Office for National Statistics) yesterday. Inflation rose at its fastest annual pace for nine...

OVER 100 workers and youth voted unanimously on Saturday for occupying hospitals against closure and to stop the smashing up and privatisation of the...

A US drone strike in northwest Pakistan’s tribal region killed at least 12 persons on Thursday. Drone aircraft fired two missiles on a religious seminary...

President Barack Obama tried to convince top union leaders to drop labour’s opposition to taxing workers’ health care benefits at a meeting at the...

RAIL union RMT yesterday slammed the government for ‘presiding over a culture of private waste’ on the railways, calling for an end to the...

EARLIER this week Chancellor Alistair Darling promised the most draconian cuts in public spending for 20 years as a result of the Labour government’s...

JUST days after the failure of the Hoon-Hewitt attempt to remove Gordon Brown as premier, one of Labour’s leading right-wingers, Frank Field, yesterday...

LAST Saturday, the Tory leader, Cameron, told the Daily Telegraph that if he should win the General Election he is ready to toughen the...

The House of Commons yesterday witnessed a Blairite revolt against Prime Minister Brown. Ex-cabinet ministers Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt bolstered the Tories by calling...

HEWITT and Hoon, are two of the Labour Party’s leading Blairites. Hoon was heavily involved in Blair’s criminal Iraq war, and in the...

ISRAEL cancelled the visit of a military delegation to Britain last week after British authorities could not guarantee that the Israeli occupation army’s...

Thirty per cent funding cuts will force universities to axe thousands of courses, lecturers and students, university bosses’ most senior representative has warned. In...

IT seems that the United States is preparing the ground to make the Palestinians an offer that they will not be able to refuse...

RECENT attacks on Al-Qaeda positions in Yemen, including cruise missile strikes, were led by the United States according to a CBS television report Saturday. The...

THE US emphasised that it had gone to war on the territory of the Yemen yesterday, by closing its embassy in the Yemeni...

THE CBI New Year’s message calls for ‘a new and re-energised government by the summer, with – we hope – the authority to take...

UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis has warned politicians against making ‘selfless’ public service workers pay the price for the economic slump. In his New Year...

NEWS LINE sends its revolutionary greetings for 2010 to the working class and the poor of the planet. We especially greet the insurgent masses...

Public sector union Unison yesterday condemned government plans to incorporate donations from charities into NHS budgets. It is estimated the move will deprive cash-strapped NHS...

AT the same time as Mahmud Abbas is declaring that he will stop the eruption of a Third Intifada, the Egyptian government has actively...

FOR some days now, Minister Jowell has been campaigning in the cabinet to stop Gordon Brown being verbally beastly to the Tories, by bringing...

SO, ONCE again, at the cost of some Rs 12 billion of public funds, we have to face a Presidential election. Two equally bloody, corrupt...

IN the middle of the Labour Party’s general election campaign, a section of the Labour cabinet led by Mandelson, Jowell and others is breaking...

‘In our thousands, in our millions, we are all Palestinians,’ rang out at the mass demonstration of thousands of mainly young people opposite the...

A ‘Christmas kick in the teeth’ for both staff and students is how the University and College Union (UCU) described yesterday’s slashing £398m...

WORLD powers betrayed the besieged Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip by failing to end the Israeli blockade of the territory in the wake...