Tag: unions

CIVIL servants’ union PCS has called for urgent talks with the Cabinet Office over its 2018 pay claim which calls for a fully-funded 5%...

STUDENTS at University of Arts London (UAL) are in indefinite occupation of London College of Communications (LCC) in Southwark to oppose Elephant & Castle...

PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas met on Tuesday with Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel and discussed with him the latest Palestinian and regional developments. Abbas, on an...

WEST Midlands Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has written to Labour councillors and MPs ‘to raise our serious concerns over the treatment of firefighters within...

TEAMSTERS union leaders participated in the annual Martin Luther King Day march in Memphis last Monday. The Teamsters have a long history with Memphis sanitation...

HUNDREDS of thousands members of IG Metall union, Germany’s largest trade union, are engaged in short-term ‘warning strikes’ against 80 companies, for the right...

THE Syrian government has condemned the invasion of northern Syria by Turkish ground forces, cynically called ‘Operation Olive Branch’, an invasion that was preceded...

SYRIA has ‘strongly condemned’ the ‘flagrant Turkish aggression’ on the city of Afrin, calling on the international community to take steps to stop it...

THE TUC has joined the Tory government’s new National Taskforce on Carillion. In fact it had launched the call for May to form the taskforce. The...

THE UK government ‘needs to pay much more attention to establishing safe and regular routes for people to reach safety and their loved ones...

‘THE game is up for PFI, it is a catastrophic waste of taxpayers’ money,’ the GMB union said yesterday responding to the National Audit...

EXECUTIVE Committee member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), Zakaria al-Agha, said on Wednesday that the United States freeze of $65 million in its...

‘THE Ontario government must step in to protect hospital staff and the public in the Carillion bankruptcy,’ Canada’s largest private sector union, Unifor, demanded...

BRITAIN’S trade unions are calling on the Tories to set up a ‘national task force’ to protect UK firms and workers from the collapse...

SEVEN Palestinian firefighters have come over from Hebron in the occupied West Bank to train with the Fire Brigade Union (FBU) of Scotland to...

THE BOMBSHELL announcement yesterday morning that Carillion had gone into liquidation had immediate and devastating consequences for the 20,000 workers employed by the private...

IRAN’S President Hassan Rouhani says the administration of US President Donald Trump has failed in its attempts to kill the 2015 multilateral...

20,000 jobs in the UK and a similar number of jobs abroad are under threat with the collapse of the giant construction company Carillion...

THE GMB has claimed ‘another groundbreaking victory for members who have bogus self-employment claims in driving and logistics sectors’ against national logistics company UK...

FORMER US officials say Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu asked the administration of former US President Barack Obama in late 2014 to consider a...

JUNIOR doctors have received back pay of £800,000 after a hard-fought battle against their trust regarding a contract breach. Their union, the British Medical Association...

EX-UKIP leader Nigel Farage has said that ‘we should have a second referendum on EU membership.’ This is the biggest personal surrender note for...

TORY health secretary Jeremy Hunt has been told in a letter from NHS bosses that the NHS is ‘no longer able to meet the...

TRAIN staff and angry commuters have been protesting up and down the country at the 3.4% hikes in rail fares. Many commuters have seen...

THERE are two million child workers in Turkey, despite the official statistics showing the figure as 800,000, DISK (The Confederation of Revolutionist Worker’s Unions),...

MAY’S ‘reshuffle’ that never was continues her recent career in which everything that could go wrong has, but such is the feebleness of...

VAUXHALL is cutting another 250 jobs at its Ellesmere Port car plant on top of the 400 jobs it announced in October. The carmaker, now...

HEALTH secretary Hunt was yesterday promoted by PM May with social care being added to his portfolio. The decision will infuriate health workers and...

THE right-wing think tank the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS), which promotes free-market capitalism, has just produced a report entitled ‘An NHS Royal...

ON FRIDAY the GMB trade union declared that ‘Tory Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt must resign,’ and warned that that the ‘NHS is tailspinning into...

TORY Health secretary Jeremy Hunt must resign, trade union GMB demanded yesterday, while warning that the ‘NHS is tailspinning into catastrophe.’ ‘The number of hospitals...

AUSTRALIA’S Federal Government has quietly decided to freeze university funding for regional nursing and other students, warns Queensland Nurses and Midwives’ Union (QNMU). In a...

SOCIAL WORK managers in Renfrewshire in Scotland have spent almost £4 million on agency care staff in just five years, figures reveal. Renfrewshire Health and...

‘THIS IS dangerous nonsense and must be opposed by the whole trade union movement,’ RMT General Secretary Mick Cash said yesterday responding to a...

THE MASSIVE gap in wealth between workers and the bosses has once again been highlighted in a new report which shows that the chief...

DR RICHARD Fawcett, a Royal Stoke Hospital consultant, has apologised for ‘third world’ conditions in the hospital’s A&E, saying that he was ‘heartbroken’ to...

TRAIN staff were joined by angry commuters in protests at over forty stations across the UK as the 3.4% hikes in rail fares...

CALL an ambulance and a fire engine turns up! Firefighters with just six days basic first aid training are being sent to medical emergencies instead...

THE Palestinian National Council (PNC), the Palestinian parliament in exile, said on Monday that the decision of the Israeli ruling Likud party to impose...

IN HIS New Year speech North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un warned US imperialism not to start a nuclear war against the country saying that...

New Year Manifesto by the News Line Editorial Board THE News Line Editorial Board sends its warmest revolutionary greetings for 2018 to all our readers,...

JAPANESE Foreign Minister Taro Kono pledged during a visit to Al-Quds University on Wednesday to work to strengthen the working relationship between the Palestinian...

MICHAEL HESELTINE, a Tory Deputy Prime Minister under John Major and a notorious enemy of the trade unions, has revealed that he prefers a...

THE UN Security Council last Friday unanimously adopted a new set of draconian US-proposed sanctions against North Korea to further strangle its energy supplies...

TOGETHER for Catalonia (JxTCat) leader, Carles Puigdemont, has called on Spain’s government to allow him to return home in time for the opening session...