Tag: worker
Defiant Locked Out Gate Gourmet Workers Picket Tgwu Office
‘OUR anniversary march and rally in Southall on Sunday August 20 is very important. ‘We will show our unity and strength and we want everyone...
MIGRANTS HAVE RIGHTS – GMB warns bully bosses
THE GMB yesterday at its annual Congress in Blackpool demanded that the owner of the American Dry Cleaning Company, Julian Stone, reinstate two...
APOLOGISE! Forest Gate residents condemn raid
Hundreds of youth and workers demonstrated outside Forest Gate police station denouncing the capitalist state and declaring that ‘Tony Blair is the terrorist!’ They were...
Victory to Gate Gourmet locked-out workers
TEXAS PACIFIC and its Gate Gourmet protege are not renowned for making apologies. In fact the opposite is the case. They are renowned for...
TRADE UNIONISTS MURDERED FOR DEFENDING WORKERS’ RIGHTS – ICFTU report
ONE-HUNDRED-AND-FIFTEEN trade unionists were murdered for defending workers’ rights in 2005, while more than 1,600 were subjected to violent assaults and some 9,000 arrested,...
GG workers lobby TGWU leaders
GATE Gourmet locked out workers lobbied the General Council of the TGWU yesterday morning. They called on their union leadership to reinstate their hardship payments,...
No evidence behind police terror raid
IN the early hours of Friday morning a police raiding party of up to 250 officers broke into a home in Lansdown Road, Forest...
Wal-Mart Plans To Slash Health Benefits
America’s campaign to change supermarket giant Wal-Mart, WakeUpWalMart.com, has released copies of Wal-Mart’s new health care benefits plan for current part-time employees and full-time...
ASLEF pickets out at Waterloo
YESTERDAY’S 24-hour strike by 200 Aslef members working out of London’s Waterloo Station was 100 per cent solid and will be repeated tomorrow, Aslef...
French And British Workers Unite To Fight Ryton Closure
Over 400 French and British workers lobbying the Peugeot shareholders’ Annual General Meeting in Paris on Wednesday declared they are determined to fight the...
Blair’s great pensions robbery
LABOUR’S ‘pensions revolution’ is a major attack on the working class, the elderly and the youth. The origin of the ‘revolution’ is not that the...
US and South African workers unite against paper conglomerate
America’s United Steelworkers union (USW) and the South African Chemical, Energy, Paper, Printing, Wood & Allied Workers Union (CEPPWAWU) have pledged mutual support in...
IMMIGRANTS ARE NOT RUBBISH, TO BE USED AND THROWN OUT –...
OVER 25,000 refugees, workers and youth marched through the centre of Paris on Saturday, demanding, ‘Withdraw the CESEDA’! and ‘Immigrants are not disposable like...
Blair gang runs out of spin
THE Blair government has finally run out of spin. It is now being destroyed by its own inner contradictions, the chief one being its determination,...
Build up pensions battle against Blair government
AFTER the disgraceful sell out of final salary pensions by union leaders of the NHS, civil service and local government trade unions, the basic...
HAMAS WILL NOT RECOGNISE ISRAEL – ‘whatever the pressure’
Palestinian national resistance movement, Hamas, insisted on Tuesday that it will not recognise the Israeli occupation whatever pressures are placed on the Hamas-led government. Speaking...
‘OBSCENE’ VENTURE CAPITALISTS – says GMB
After a £1.3 billion cash strip, the claim that Debenhams is worth double what the venture capitalists paid for it in 2003 is grotesque,...
Harrier jets to stay in Afghanistan
Six RAF Harrier GR7 jets are to stay in Afghanistan until 31 March 2007 to support UK troops and their allies on the ground,...
Restore the NHS! Bring down Blair
PRIME Minister Tony Blair made clear yesterday that the government is determined to force through the cuts and closures, privatisation and destruction of...
Hounslow UNISON supports Gate Gourmet workers
GATE Gourmet locked-out workers yesterday won big support from UNISON members at Hounslow Civic Centre. Paul Gibbons, a student social worker, said: ‘I get irritated...
The Easter Rising a powerful blow against ‘the power of the...
OUR theses were written before the outbreak of this rebellion, which must be the touchstone of our theoretical views. The views of the opponents...
8 US SOLDIERS KILLED IN IRAQ – while Britain is sending...
EIGHT US soldiers have been killed across Iraq in the past four days, including three in roadside bombings Wednesday morning, the US military said. Two...
US plans to use nuclear bunker busters against Iran
THE New Yorker has published an article by award winning journalist Seymour Hersh, that claims that the US administration of President G W Bush...
French Youth Demand – Withdraw The Hire And Fire Contract
FRENCH youth are in no mood to give up fighting for their employment rights. They are vowing to continue their blockade of universities and high...
‘Israel Is Building The World’s Biggest Prison’
‘ISRAEL is going to enter the Guinness Book of Records for having built the world’s biggest prison,’ said an angry Abed Yabrud, waiting his...
Restore Student Grants – Smash All Fees
Students’ expenditure has gone up 44 per cent in real terms under the three Labour governments, an official Student Income and Expenditure survey has...
1.5 Million Take Strike Action
YESTERDAY’s massive one-day strike stopped whole regions of the UK, but is only the start of the campaign, local government workers warned. Striking local government...
Victory To The Gate Gourmet Workers
THE News Line sends greetings to the striking German and the locked-out British Gate Gourmet workers, who are today marching through Hounslow. The German workers...
UNITY IN ACTION – German & British Gate Gourmet workers picket...
TWENTY SIX Gate Gourmet strikers and supporters from Düsseldorf, Germany, arrived in London yesterday to join Gate Gourmet locked-out workers from Heathrow. They met at...
Unions Must Take Action To Defend The NHS
THE TUC and all trade unions must be made to take action to defend the NHS before it is butchered by Blair and completely...
WORK TILL YOU’RE 65 – BA unveils pensions plan for pilots
British Airways announced yesterday it has drawn up ‘a proposal to clear the £1 billion past service actuarial deficit in its New Airways...
FRANCE HAS RISEN – Part two
THE CRS and gendarmerie have remained on the streets of Paris since the uprising sparked by the violent state attack on demonstrators at Place...
Gg Dusseldorf Strikers In London Today
GATE Gourmet locked-out workers, at Heathrow Airport, are welcoming Gate Gourmet striking workers, from Dusseldorf Airport in Germany, to London today. The British Gate Gourmet...
‘Great support for march’
GATE Gourmet locked-out workers are getting great support for their march through Hounslow on Saturday. Saturday’s march assembles at 1.00pm (see advert on this...
NO TGWU HARDSHIP PAY! – for Gate Gourmet locked-out workers taking...
TWO Gate Gourmet locked-out workers went to the TGWU London South East and East Anglia Regional Office in north London on Tuesday, to ask...
Labour NEC says it will take back control over funds
PRIME MINISTER Blair yesterday suffered a setback when the Labour Party’s NEC decided that it was going to take back control over the party’s...
MASSACRE! – Inquiry into 15 civilian deaths in Haditha
The United States military is investigating whether US Marines who killed 15 civilians, including women and children, near the western Iraqi town of Haditha...
HEWITT CALL TO TREAT PATIENTS IN THE COMMUNITY – to cut...
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday warned against any ‘quick fix’ plan to keep asthma and heart patients out of hospital ‘just to...
British Imperialism Wants To Redraw Map
IRAQ is in the middle of a civil war, the country’s former interim puppet prime minister, Iyad Allawi, said yesterday. Allawi was appointed by...
Blair is deliberately smashing the NHS
THE just announced 1,000 strong mass sackings at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire which includes 750 compulsory redundancies, as well as 370 nurses...
‘SERIOUS THREAT’ TO EXISTENCE OF STUDENT UNION – warns London Met...
‘To whom it may concern,’ writes Michelle Harris, president of London Metropolitan University Students’ Union. ‘There is a serious issue occuring at London Met university...
Organise a general strike over pensions!
ABOUT 1.5 million local council workers are to strike on March 28 to defend their local government pension scheme. It is being described as...
COLLUSION! – Britain and US condemned over Jericho raid
The Arab league yesterday condemned British and United States collusion with Israel, after Israel attacked a Jericho prison containing six Palestinian militants, 20 minutes...
Milosevic is dead but the crisis in the Balkans remains
THE death of Slobodan Milosevic in his cell at The Hague, four years into his trial by the imperialist powers for genocide, has left...
Lancaster Students Fight Gag And Victimisation
Six members of Lancaster University are to be granted a rehearing of their trespass conviction on the 13th March 2006. A Support the George Fox...