Tag: unions
5 arrested on South African MyCiTi bus strike
FIVE arrested striking MyCiTi bus drivers were charged with public violence and released on R1,000 bail each on Wednesday at the Cape Town Magistrate’s...
Strikebreaking managers are acting as rail guards!
AS Northern and South Western Railway guards strike again this weekend, rail union RMT has raised new safety warnings with the regulator over the...
Deported for refusing a DNA test! – Javid forced to apologise
THE HOME Office has been forced to apologise after people were wrongly deported for refusing to take DNA tests to prove they were entitled...
Australian mass marches against low pay!
MORE THAN 170,000 workers marched through Melbourne, Australia on Tuesday, while tens of thousands of others marched through Sydney, Wollongong, Gladstone, Cairns, Mackay, Darwin,...
EU gives Italy three weeks to re-write its budget or face...
ITALY is now on a collision course with the EU. The European Commission has issued an ultimatum insisting that the country’s budget plan does...
‘WE WON’T BE BULLIED’ –say Glasgow City Council strikers
AS Primary schools and nurseries across Glasgow stayed closed on the second day of the massive 8,000-strong 48-hour equal pay strike yesterday, the SNP-run...
NO! TO ‘ZOMBIE MULTI-ACADEMY TRUSTS’ say Greenwich teachers and parents
TEACHERS and parents at The John Roan secondary school in Greenwich are determined to defeat an academy order issued by the Tory government calling...
Children with special needs: savage cuts to SEND funding!
PARENTS, councillors and education unions descended on the Department of Education yesterday to demand that children with special needs are not left high and...
Tories plan to replace national pay bargaining for public sector workers...
THE TORIES are determined to put an end to trade union-negotiated across the board pay increases for all public sector workers and replace national...
Syrians In Occupied Golan Burn Israeli Election Ballots!
SYRIANS in the occupied Golan Heights have demonstrated and burned Israeli election ballots in a symbolic dismissal of local council elections and ‘a policy...
‘Remainers’ Take The Struggle Onto The Streets – An Example That...
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of ‘Remainers’ marshalled by the likes of billionaire George Soros and other speculators set out on Saturday to try to create...
Second referendum on the table! says shadow Brexit secretary Starmer
SIR Keir Starmer, Labour’s shadow Brexit secretary was asked by Andrew Marr on his show yesterday morning: ‘700,000 people marching in London yesterday. If...
Sa Plastics Workers Win Right To Strike
THE NATIONAL Union of Metalworkers of SA (NUMSA) said it will escalate the strike by plastics sector workers after the Labour Court in Johannesburg...
May has capitulated to the EU and looks to Labour for...
TORY PM May’s latest capitulation to the European Union over Brexit has been met with furious anger from Brexiteers and others in her own...
‘Murder with impunity’ Stop appeasing Saudi regime says International Federation of...
AS MORE and more evidence emerges about the gruesome nature of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has called...
No date for next meeting – Merkel
TORY PM May was slapped down again yesterday as German Chancellor Merkel said that no progress was made on Brexit and that a date...
REMOVE FLAMMABLE CLADDING IMMEDIATELY – demand Fuel Poverty Action campaigners
At a demonstration outside the Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government on Wednesday, Fuel Poverty Action handed in a letter to the Secretary...
Trump Says Bin Salman Innocent Until Proven Guilty – After Khashoggi...
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has cautioned against rushing to blame Saudi Arabia and its Crown Prince over the disappearance and butchering of Saudi journalist...
NUMSA BATTLES FOR PLASTIC WORKERS – while Marikana victims demand compensation
STRIKING members of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) members in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) held a mass demonstration on Tuesday to hand...
‘Students and lecturers on the streets – this is just the...
OVER 2,000 FE lecturers, staff and students marched through central London yesterday demanding fair funding for colleges. They demanded fair pay for FE lecturers,...
Corbyn stabs Brexit in the back for the benefit of ...
LABOUR leader Corbyn, in his response to PM May’s Monday update to the House of Commons ahead of this week’s European Council, made it...
Ryanair ‘declaration of war’
RYANAIR has made a ‘declaration of war’ unions said after it embarked on a campaign of closures and ‘fleet reductions’. This, according to pilot and...
Remain permanently in customs union – says Corbyn
‘LABOUR’S plan is for Britain and the European Union (EU) to negotiate a permanent customs union to protect jobs and manufacturing,’ Labour leader Jeremy...
Postal Workers lose money in share crash – Renationalise Royal Mail
AT LAST month’s Labour Party conference, shadow chancellor John McDonnell floated the policy of a future Labour government introducing an ‘inclusive ownership Fund’ under...
LABOUR COULD VOTE WITH MAY SAYS THORNBERRY – who helped draw...
LABOUR’S Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry confirmed on the Andrew Marr Show yesterday morning that Labour could vote along with PM May on...
Davis Calls On The Cabinet To Revolt – Now Is The...
NOW that the ex-Brexit negotiator Davis has called for the Cabinet to rise up against the May government’s permanent Customs Union, and her plan...
France General Strike
FRANCE’S nine main unions united for the first time in a decade in public sector protests earlier this week against President Emmanuel Macron’s plans...
Universal Credit– Claimants Suffering
THE PUBLIC and Commercial Services Union (PCS) yesterday accused the government of being ‘complicit in the suffering’ of Universal Credit claimants, labelling the system...
US & UK bosses supply, train, and equip the Saudi killing...
SAUDI journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who lived for years in the US, walked into the Saudi embassy in Turkey over a week ago, and did...
Eu: ‘Moment Of Truth’ Near!
THE PRIME Minister will ‘never agree’ to a permanent Customs Union with the EU, said 10 Downing Street yesterday. However despite Downing Street assurances...
May appeals to Labour Right-Wing to save her
THE TOTTERING Tory government of Theresa May was dealt another massive blow on Wednesday night when the ten Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MPs abstained...
A&E closures putting lives at risk
THE MASS closure of A&E’s at hospitals around the country has created a situation where many patients now live in A&E ‘black spots,’ where...
Israel kills 14 Palestinians, injures 1,434 on Gaza border, including four...
LATEST figures show that 14 Palestinians, including four children, were killed and 1,434 injured by the Israeli forces during the demonstrations between September...
DUP to vote against Tory Budget!
THE Democratic Unionist Party is prepared to vote against the Budget on October 29, if their red lines for an EU deal are ignored...
BRINGING DOWN TORIES IS THE KEY says striking Uber driver
‘BRINGING down the Tory government is the key thing,’ striking Uber driver Liban Yussuf told News Line at the lunchtime rally outside Uber HQ...
Uber Strike! Mass Rally Outside Hq
‘SHAME on Uber!’ chanted over 150 striking drivers and supporters outside Uber HQ at Aldgate Tower east London yesterday. ‘Uber Uber you can’t hide! ...
‘Israel should be forced to stop its violations against the Palestinian...
PALESTINE Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah told visiting members of the European Parliament on Monday that Israel should be forced to stop its violations against...
BRING DOWN TORIES TO QUIT THE EU – DESELECT ALL LABOUR...
AFTER her ‘Dancing Queen’ performance at the Tory Party conference, which acted as an introduction to extreme grovelling to Labour’s right wing, praising...
Amcu Demands A ‘Social Democracy’
SOUTH Africa should transition from a constitutional democracy to a ‘social democracy’ and implement more socialist policies to retain jobs in the mining sector,...
Fox-Gove Brexit Surrender
THE TORY Brexiteers are starting to split with a number moving to support PM May and a Customs Union with the EU. The UK...
New generation organises five section strike! TUC must call a General...
A NEW generation of workers is now organising themselves into unions and is combining their labour power by striking together. There is no doubt...
McDonald’s, TGI Fridays, Uber Eats and Wetherspoon strike!
HUNDREDS of striking McDonald’s, TGI Fridays, Wetherspoon, and Uber Eats mostly young workers held a joint rally in London’s Leicester Square on Thursday. They...
‘McStrike’ demands £10 an hour
‘WHAT do we want – fair pay! When do we want it – now!’ shouted hundreds of striking McDonald’s, TGI Fridays, Wetherspoons, and UberEats...
RCN leaders to stand down
THE ENTIRE leadership of the Royal College of Nurses (RCN) union have announced yesterday they are to stand down, following the results of the...
May survives Party conference – but will need Labour’s help to...
THE sight of PM May ‘dancing’ onto the Tory Party conference podium’ no doubt celebrating that she had survived the Tory Party conference thus...