Tag: unions

AS THE US and the UK continue to fuel and arm the war in the Ukraine, the economic outlook for Europe and the EU...

UNIONS representing more than a million staff working across the NHS met with Health Secretary Steve Barclay on Tuesday to discuss the growing workforce crisis...

On the eve of Tory chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn budget tomorrow, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published figures revealing that the number of...

WORKERS in the power industry across India will hold a massive rally in Delhi on November 23 against the Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2022, which...

THE UNITE trade union kicked off a campaign yesterday morning to call on Tory prime minister Rishi Sunak and chancellor Jeremy Hunt to ‘use...

UNITE launched a strike ballot of its 100,000 NHS members outside St Thomas’s Hospital, opposite Parliament, in central London yesterday morning. Onay Kasab, Lead Officer...

IN RECENT days, the Tory Home Secretary Suella Braverman had come under fire for comparing immigrants and asylum seekers to ‘invaders’. Liberal Tories tut-tutted that...

The European Union (EU) has warned that the eurozone will slide into recession over the winter with Brussels putting up inflation forecasts for 2022 and 2023...

THE TORY government has revealed that it is set to begin training hundreds of British Army personnel as strike-breakers this month, to be mobilised...

THE ‘STATISTICALLY significant’ increase in maternal deaths reported on Thursday by MBRRACE-UK is a tragic indication of a lack of government investment in maternity...

THE UK economy is heading for a recession and a slump as the latest official figures show. It shrank between July and September by...

THE Royal College of Midwives (RCM) yesterday launched only its second ballot on industrial action in England and its first in Wales in its...

MEMBERS of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) will be angry that the historic vote by the overwhelming majority of nurses throughout the UK...

STRIKES and demonstrations took place across France on Thursday, with the CGT union federation declaring: ‘November 10 for wages and retirement at age 60.’ ‘For...

HAMMERSMITH and City Line Tube RMT branch secretary Ian Flatman, told News Line: ‘The strike here is absolutely solid. It’s time for a general...

NURSING STAFF have voted to strike in the majority of NHS hospitals across the UK, and the nurses union, the RCN, has called on...

PRESIDENT Daniel Ortega, as he went to vote in the municipal elections on Sunday, emphasised that people were voting for Nicaragua and by doing...

‘THERE is a real possibility that supplies of petroleum products could be affected,’ union leaders warned yesterday as Unite and the GMB unions announced...

YESTERDAY morning, Tory ministers had to submit to the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) their plans to impose the cuts demanded by Chancellor Jeremy...

THE US administration of Joe Biden is privately encouraging Ukraine’s leaders to signal an openness to negotiate with Russia and drop their public refusal...

‘VOTE YES,’ the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) urged as it launched a strike ballot of the remainder of its 63,000 members in England...

THE 10,000 workers and youth who took part in the ‘Britain is Broken’ march in London on Saturday were marching for action to bring...

Over 10,000 workers and youth joined the ‘Britain is Broken’ march through London on Saturday, called by the People’s Assembly, with big delegations from...

A HOME OFFICE whistleblower has revealed that the Tory government is recruiting supermarket customer services reps and employing them as asylum claim processors with...

THE Bank of England yesterday raised interest rates by the most in 33 years from 2.25% to 3%, and accompanied its action with a...

An official report published on Wednesday presented in devastating detail the ‘prevalent’ culture of thousands of police officers in England and Wales who are...

SYRIA’S top legislative body says the 1917 Balfour Declaration, through which Britain executed its plan of establishing a Jewish national home in Palestine, is primarily responsible for war...

THE UK CAPITALIST STATE is currently engaged in a war on two fronts. The first is to aid the right wing Ukrainian regime with hundreds...

POSTAL workers have announced a series of 48-hour strikes to fall on Black Friday and after Tech Monday, as workers will also hold a...

TODAY’S lobby of Parliament called by the TUC represents a complete avoidance of the real fight to the finish between the working class and...

THE COLLECTIVE West is using the dirtiest of tricks against Moscow and Beijing in a bid to maintain its hegemony, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey...

THE RUSSIAN army on Saturday accused the UK of being involved in the explosions on the Nord Stream gas pipelines, and that the same...

Workers at a combined Starbucks and Amazon store in Times Square filed a petition for union recognition last Friday, saying they’re being required to...

TORY Home Secretary Suella Braverman was accused in the House of Commons yesterday of ‘repeatedly breaking the law’ over her treatment of asylum seekers...

WHILE the US and UK backed Israeli murder machine, both civil and military is at work on a daily basis killing Palestinian men women...

FELIPA MONTENEGRO the leader of the Bartolina Sisa Movement, which represents the rights of rural Indigenous women in Bolivia denounced that she and her...

IN THE much-anticipated medium term budget policy statement (MTBPS), the Minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana, will, like his counterparts at the South African Reserve...

‘A SPEECH to calm the party and the country’ was how the Tory-supporting Daily Mail greeted the speech by newly installed prime minister Rishi...

TEACHERS in Haverhill, Massachusetts, have won their strike held last week, defying a state law banning teachers and other public sector workers from striking,...

TORY Chancellor Hunt announced yesterday that the ‘fiscal statement’, which had been due to be delivered next Monday, 31st October, will now be delayed...

RUSSIA has accused Western countries of using sanctions to steal the country’s gold and foreign exchange reserves amid the raging war in Ukraine. Asked about...

Rishi Sunak delivered his first address to the nation as prime minister yesterday morning. He started by praising Liz Truss and Boris Johnson in a...

A DELEGATION of five ministers from the Palestinian cabinet visited the northern West Bank city of Nablus on Monday to investigate the ongoing Israeli...

Rishi Sunak was appointed Tory Prime Minister yesterday after his opponent Penny Mordaunt withdrew from the race at the last minute. Sunak was overwhelmingly rejected...

Over 70,000 staff at 150 universities are to strike after University and College Union (UCU) members overwhelmingly voted ‘yes’ in two historic national ballots. The...