Tag: unions

The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN said that...

ALMOST 50,000 resident (junior) hospital doctors started their 5-day strike yesterday against the government’s refusal to fund their claim for a pay increase of...

‘There must be 300 here today easily and that is replicated at the other four sites. There are no wagons going out at all...

THE BBC, along with three leading news agencies, has issued a statement expressing their concern for journalists in Gaza who are facing starvation and...

WEDNESDAY’S Guardian newspaper admitted that Israel faced intensifying international condemnation for its killing of starving Palestinian civilians in Gaza’ quoting UN Secretary General Antonio...

UNRWA, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, has accused Israel of ‘starving civilians’ including a million children in Gaza by deliberately blocking food...

THE number of domestic applicants to nursing courses has fallen to a new low, says the RCN (Royal College of Nursing), which is calling...

  continued from lead article British/Australian doctor who had worked in Gaza, Mohammed Mustafa spoke wearing the scrubs that he wore in Gaza, saying: ‘These...

PM Keir Starmer’s Labour government, still reeling from its major retreats over the welfare cuts to incapacity PIP benefits and the winter fuel payments,...

AN Israeli attack on the only Catholic Church in the Gaza Strip on Thursday has left two people dead and several others injured. Two women...

PROVIDED you are an ex-Taleban fighter who now supports the British government, you are very welcome to enter and stay in the UK, and...

SOUTH Africa trade union Solidarity said on Monday it is prepared to be part of a South African task team that would be able...

‘THAMES WATER is drowning under a mountain of debt,’ GMB union National Officer Gary Carter said yesterday, in response to the privateer’s announcement of...

LAST FRIDAY, the Unite union’s annual policy conference overwhelmingly passed an emergency motion  condemning both the local Labour-controlled council and the Labour government over...

‘NO TO TWO-TIER Maternity!’ declare striking teachers at the Charter Schools Multi-Academy Trust in Southwark, south-east London, who begin a further three-day strike this...

Unite the union on Friday overwhelming voted to re-examine its relationship with Labour and deputy prime minister Angela Rayner who has had her Unite...

THE Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has condemned the Israeli-American Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) and complicit governments, especially the US and British administrations, for the...

SHRINKING UK trade figures released yesterday of a decline of 0.1 per cent of GDP in May, following a 0.3 per cent fall in...

FRANCESCA Albanese, the United Nations Human Rights Council special rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, has been sanctioned by the US government after she...

WHILE US president Donald Trump was meeting with Israeli leader Benjamín Netanyahu on Monday, ostensibly to discuss a ‘peace plan’ for Gaza, the Israeli...

STRIKING Shaftesbury School teachers are drawing increasing public support in their dispute over restructuring, as the Sherborne Area Schools Trust (SAST) refuses to come...

INTERNATIONAL Paramedics Day 2025 is being marked at the Camp4Palestine opposite the US Embassy in London tonight at 6.30pm and will be featuring a...

THE Tory Party has launched its campaign to force the working class to pay the bill for the worldwide capitalist crisis of the bosses,...

‘FREE, Free Palestine’ chanted over 1,000 protesters waving Palestine flags outside the High Court yesterday. The court was holding an emergency hearing seeking a judicial...

The General Confederation of Greek Workers (GSEE), the Greek TUC, responded on Thursday with an angry statement to the government Labour Ministry’s intention to...

PM KeIr Starmer’s humiliating retreat on Tuesday, over his plans to drastically cut the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) benefits for disabled workers has opened...

DURING PM’s Question Time in Parliament on Wednesday Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves broke down in tears as Prime Minster Keir Starmer dodged a question...

SEVERAL human rights organisations have condemned the UK Supreme Court’s decision that a lawsuit against the government, challenging its continued arms sales to Israel,...

ON MONDAY, the High Court in London rejected a legal challenge brought by the Palestinian human rights organisation Al Haq against the decision of...

OVER 400 disabled people gathered in Parliament Square on Monday 30th June to oppose the bill being put to Parliament yesterday by the Labour...

United States federal judge, James Donato, last Thursday granted an injunction after ruling that the administration of US President Donald Trump is ‘likely to...

NABIL Abu Rudeineh, spokesman for President Mahmoud Abbas, warned on Sunday of the grave consequences of Israel’s threats to carry out what could be...

PM Keir Starmer’s humiliating defeat and capitulation to the rebellion of 127 Labour MPs, over his proposed welfare cuts on Thursday night, has thrown...

THE Greek seafarers’ trade union PENEN declared on Wednesday the victory of the 10-day solid strike on the ferries of the Italy-Greece line at...

Up to Wednesday, Labour prime minister Keir Starmer was in a state of complete denial about the depth of the rebellion amongst his own...

SOUTH African unemployed doctors have been protesting once again, launching their third sit-in of the year outside KwaZulu-Natal’s Office of the Premier on Monday...

THE LABOUR Party leadership will ‘never be forgiven’ if it goes ahead with its benefit cuts plans next Tuesday, the Fire Brigades Union leader...

THE bankrupt British ruling class is preparing to expand its ‘nuclear deterrent’ by buying a squadron of American jet fighters that have the capacity...

WHAT was described as a ‘fiery’ meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party, addressed by work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall, took place on Monday...

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) has issued an urgent appeal to save the lives of hundreds of infants and premature babies who...

ON SUNDAY, US defence secretary Pete Hegseth insisted publicly that, despite the illegal bombing of three Iranian nuclear sites on Saturday, Donald Trump’s administration...

First speaker at the rally in Whitehall outside Downing Street was Palestinian journalist Ibrahim Khadra, who said: ‘It’s the 622nd day of Israeli genocide...

OVER 350,000 workers, students and youth marched through central London from Russell Square to Downing Street on Saturday, in one of the largest demonstrations...

Donald Trump’s belligerent ‘last-chance’ threat to Iran to resume diplomatic talks about abandoning its nuclear programme or face US military attacks in two weeks,...

YESTERDAY, US president Donald Trump kept the world waiting for him while he made up his mind about intervening on the side of Israel...