Tag: worker

UNITE hit out yesterday at Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer’s announcement that he would halt new gas and oil production in the North Sea...

‘We support a general strike to defeat this bill, we supported it in the TUC and it’s our policy,’ RMT leader Mick Lynch told...

YESTERDAY, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) opened the ballot for strike action by nurses in response to the Tory pay offer of a...

ON MONDAY, with the Tory anti-strikes Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill, back in the House of Commons for its final reading before passing into...

The annual conference of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) in Brighton this week is taking place at a time when the entire NHS...

OVER 5,000 workers and youth demonstrated against the Israeli occupation of Palestine on Saturday, marking the 75th anniversary of the Nakba, with a march...

IN ITS WEDNESDAY EDITORIAL the Daily Telegraph sought to shed crocodile tears for the striking health workers who are continuing to battle against the...

On the fifth day of strikes this year, thousands of teachers, students, and supporters marched in London on Tuesday to call for improved working...

THOUSANDS of teachers, students, and supporters gathered in London yesterday on the fifth day of strikes this year, organised by the National Education Union...

THERE was a powerful May Day March from Clarkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square yesterday with more than 10,000 trade unionists, workers, youth and students...

On Monday, over 180 UK health professionals and representatives from leading medical bodies sent a letter to Tory prime minister Rishi Sunak denouncing the...

FRENCH trade union federation the CGT is calling ‘on the entire world of work to make May Day a powerful day of demonstration to...

WITH 250 picket lines across the country, 155,000 members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada – who have been without a contract for...

LAST Friday, the leadership of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) finally revealed to their members in Royal Mail (RM), details of the treacherous sell-out...

Ardent Theatre Company presents Strike! by Tracy Ryan The Large Theatre, Southwark Playhouse, 77-85 Newington Causeway, London SE1 6BD Mon-Sat: 19:30, Tues & Sat: 15:00 Running Time: 90...

Thousands of protesters took to the streets again on Tuesday to demand justice for a black teenager, who was shot twice by a white man...

‘From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free!’ chanted thousands of protesters marching in London from the Home Office to a rally...

LONDON'S Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Trust and Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust will be the first to walk out in new wave of...

UNISON has reaffirmed its commitment to the One Team campaign for the health service, in the face of the government’s ‘divisive’ actions during the...

TORY Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has been in Washington this week attending the spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The IMF, the main economic...

IN THE midst of the historic four days of strike action by junior doctors this week, the leadership of the BMA have resorted to...

LEADING employment lawyers are to issue yet another warning that the Tory government’s new Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill will give ministers ‘unfettered power’...

PM Sunak’s new anti-trade union legislation will make the UK one of the most difficult countries in the world to go on strike, a...

FRANCE’S small and mid-size towns have been at the forefront of the battle against President Emmanuel Macron’s contentious pension reform – in some places...

THE FBU has made a decisive intervention, demanding that the trade unions build a campaign to defy the anti-strike laws being pushed through Parliament...

TRADE unions must build a campaign to defy the anti-strike laws being pushed through Parliament by the Tories, Fire Brigades Union general secretary Matt...

THE EFF (Economic Freedom Fighters) ‘rejected’ the deployment of members of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) across the country, during Monday’s national...

NEARLY three-quarters of a million public sector workers from eight unions went on strike against the Tory government on Budget Day, Wednesday 15th March,...

MORE than 10,000 NHS workers, other trade unionists and members of the public marched from UCLH hospital in Euston, central London, to a mass...

AN unrepentant Gary Lineker insisted yesterday that he stood fully with his tweets condemning the Tory ‘Illegal Migrants Bill’ and that he has no...

YESTERDAY the Tories unveiled their ‘Illegal Migration Bill’ along with the admission that the bill itself is illegal under international law, not that this...

THOUSANDS of Greek workers, students and youth took to the streets at the weekend in a further extension of the anger that has erupted...

A judge in New York ruled on Friday that Starbucks had violated federal labour law dozens of times in responding to a union campaign...

A DELEGATION from the European Union along with representatives of about 20 countries visited yesterday the Palestinian town of Huwwara, south of Nablus, and...

‘THERE was no deal. There was nothing, nothing on the table,’ said Junior Doctors’ Co-chair, Robert Laurenson outside the Department of Health, yesterday morning. Laurenson...

THE OFFICE for National Statistics (ONS) revealed yesterday that the number of days lost due to strikes last year was the highest since 1989. In...

‘YOU are the finest workers in the UK. You deserve fair pay, job security and not threats,’ PCS General Secretary Mark Serwotka told strikers...

‘WE’RE striking for better working conditions, pay and the service for patients,’ Unison member Scott Tyler emergency medical technician told News Line on the...

TENS of thousands of nurses and ambulance workers across England walked out yesterday at the start of two days of strike action. Members of the...

NURSES called for a general strike to defend the NHS on lively picket lines around the country yesterday. At University College Hospital near Euston in...

OVER 20,000 railway worker members of Aslef and the RMT unions were on strike yesterday, with powerful picket lines outside scores of stations all...

THERE were more than 40,000 teachers and other striking workers on the NEU demonstration on Wednesday 1st February – with the front of the...

Israel has announced plans to provide illegal settlers with firearms and weapons in response to the recent retaliatory operations by Palestinians, which killed at least...

IT was with much fanfare that the TUC announced on the 10th January that it would hold a national ‘protect the right to strike’...

PICKET lines outside ambulance stations around the country received a cacophony of support from passing vehicles as 23,000 ambulance worker members of Unison, the...