Tag: unions

YESTERDAY the number two CWU leader Dave Ward was boasting that the super-flexibility deal that the leadership put to the membership and which over...

Yesterday morning Remploy workers, fighting for their jobs against Labour plans to close 28 factories, occupied the foyer of the Department of Work and...

The 80,000 members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) working for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have voted two to...

THE Australian trade unions have welcomed the victory of the Labour Party in the general election, but doubts are growing over whether the new...

UNISON, the major UK health union, yesterday blamed the government for the crisis over dirty ambulances and issued a call ‘for urgent action to...

JUSTICE Secretary, Jack Straw, yesterday dismissed Tory claims that Labour is facing its own Black Wednesday, over Northern Rock and the missing data discs...

OVER a million French civil servants went on strike yesterday, joining the hundreds of thousands of railworkers, busworkers and gas and electricity workers who...

France was brought to a halt yesterday as over a million state employees went on strike, joining a week-long stoppage by transport workers. Teachers,...

FRENCH university and high school students were called on to make this Thursday, November 22, a day of strikes and demonstrations against the law...

UP TO 3,000 workers and youth marched behind the banner of the North East London Council of Action through Enfield on Saturday, demanding that...

FRENCH Minister of Labour, Xavier Bertrand has told the striking rail unions that they must return to work before he will...

Public sector union UNISON yesterday welcomed a government move to scrap six projected private treatment and diagnostic centres. As well, the Department of Health (DoH)...

MASS meetings of rail and transport workers were voting in France yesterday to continue their strike actions in defence of pensions. The RATP...

THE French transport workers’ strike against pension cuts yesterday caused huge stoppages on TGV fast rail routes, local train, metro and bus services. Only 90...

THE United Steelworkers (USW) last Tuesday said a new report conducted by a group of independent health and safety experts should serve as a...

YESTERDAY, the French railworkers’ trade unions began their indefinite strike action, to defeat the attempts of the Sarkozy regime to destroy their pension agreements,...

The GMB trade union yesterday slammed ‘failed Remploy management’ over plans to close 28 factories for disabled workers. Responding to proposals from Remploy management, GMB...

THE HSJ (Health Service Journal) has done a service to the NHS, and its tens of millions of users. It has revealed just how...

‘We will return to Diego Garcia – it’s our right!’ – Chagos Islanders shouted outside Downing Street on Saturday. They put up the banner of...

Reasons to vote NO to the ‘Deal’. What we will lose if this sell-out deal goes through . . . . • LOST: 40,000 more job losses...

TODAY’S picket of 10 Downing Street by the Chagos Islanders and their supporters is a vital one. They are demanding that the Prime Minister, Gordon...

GATE GOURMET has admitted at a Reading employment tribunal, hearing eight of the remaining 70 cases, that it wrongfully dismissed the eight at...

HOLLYWOOD writers took to the picket lines on Monday to begin their first strike against the US film and television industry in nearly two...

Chief PLO Negotiator Saeb Erekat met with US Assistant Secretary of State David Walsh and American Consul General Jake Wallacey on Sunday. The meeting took...

Education Secretary Ed Balls yesterday announced plans to compel all 16-18 youth to take part in full-time education or training by 2013. The government plans...

THERE is uproar in the Communication Workers Union (CWU) over the Royal Mail drive to rip up members’ existing terms and conditions, and the...

FIFTEEN thousand health workers and trade unionists from schools, local councils and other public services – as well as local residents fighting hospital closures...

THE National Health Service is under attack on every side by the government. It is being crippled by funding cuts and privatisation reforms. The...

MANY thousands of nurses, midwives, doctors, physiotherapists, domestic staff, porters and technicians from hospitals all over Britain are marching through London...

ON Wednesday the world capitalist crisis deepened after the US Federal Reserve cut its interest rate from 4.75 per cent to 4.50...

Communication Workers Union representatives from across the country yesterday slammed the changes to Royal Mail pensions that their leaders want to sign up to,...

FULL-TIME civil service union officer Andrew Lloyd has issued a response to Permanent Secretary David Bell over the compulsory transfer of support staff to...

MEMBERS of the PCS civil service union yesterday voted overwhelmingly in favour of national strike action in a consultative ballot against job cuts, pay...

THE overstretched and undervalued NHS workforce will not accept another below-inflation pay deal next year, trade unions representing over one million health workers have...

AT the September Labour Party and TUC conferences the trade union leaders, amongst them the leaders of the UNISON trade union, made out that...

THE overstretched and undervalued NHS workforce will not accept another below-inflation pay deal next year, trade unions representing over 1.1 million staff said yesterday. UNISON...

THE latest Bank of England figures show that the number of new mortgages being given to house buyers has fallen by 20 per cent...

‘What angers me is they call this a risk reduction plan, when it is obvious it will cause more risk,’ Fire Brigades Union (FBU)...

THE rotting reality behind Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s spin concerning the ‘reconfiguration’ of British troops in southern Iraq is the complete demoralisation of the...

On Saturday at least 150,000 people from all walks of life and in every part of the USA participated in eleven regional demonstrations against...

THE ‘I LOVE THE NHS’ march and rally is attracting widespread celebrity support from the world of music, sport, TV, comedy and literature. ...

ISRAEL’S defence minister is once again preparing to approve cuts in the supply of electricity and fuel to Gaza, to try once again to...

‘IT’S A bad deal. I think it should be thrown out.’ That was the reaction of one delegate, Tam Dewar from Scotland, after a national...

Claimants are going hungry because of the government’s axing of thousands of civil service jobs, warned the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) yesterday. Further...

THE ‘Framework for Action’ plan for London’s healthcare, fronted by Professor Sir Ara Darzi, proposes the destruction of a publicly-provided National Health Service (NHS)...