Tag: worker
TUC – Time To Stop Talking! Call General Strike Now To...
THE TUC last Friday ‘reaffirmed’ its calls on the government to take over the running of P&O Ferries passenger and freight services ‘as a...
Tories plan a ‘British Guantanamo Bay’ in Rwanda for refugees fleeing...
YESTERDAY, Tory Prime Minister, and convicted criminal, Boris Johnson, announced the plan to give refugees and asylum seekers seeking shelter from imperialist war a...
‘Lessons of the successful All-India General Strike!’
‘WORKERS Resistance and the All India Central Council of Trade Unions (AICCTU) congratulates the working class of the country for making the all-India strike...
Starbucks Workers Fight Victimisations!
Starbucks the coffee chain has brought back founder Howard Schultz to lead the effort to defeat a union drive that is still spreading across...
Make the TUC demonstration on June 18 a mobilisation for a...
THE TUC has called a national demonstration to London’s Parliament Square on Saturday 18th June. Announcing the demonstration the TUC said: ‘On Saturday 18th June,...
New York Amazon Unionised!
WORKERS erupted in celebrations across the US on the news that Amazon workers forced the tech giant to recognise a trade union in America...
Tory policies to defund and privatise the NHS responsible for ...
THE INDEPENDENT Ockenden inquiry into maternity provisions at the Shrewsbury NHS Trust has revealed a horrific catalogue of failures contributing to the deaths of...
University lecturers start fresh mass strike action
THE THIRD wave of a countrywide strike by members of the University and College Union (UCU) began yesterday with a five-day walkout at 38...
‘IF THERE IS NO LEGISLATION ON MONDAY – SEIZE SHIPS ON...
OVER 500 trade unionists gathered outside the RMT headquarters on the waterfront in Dover, yesterday with red RMT flags and union banners after 800...
Freed hunger striker Miqdad Qawasmi speaks out!
Eman Badr’s smile never leaves her face ever since her 25-year-old son Miqdad was released from Israeli prison following a 113-day, life-threatening hunger strike...
Poverty Stricken Haiti Workers Attacked By Riot Police
POVERTY-stricken garment workers in Haiti have been violently attacked by riot police. Last Thursday, for the second day in a row, police fired tear gas...
Clover Workers Escalate Strike Action!
THE STRIKE at South African dairy giant Clover, that started on 22 November last year, has brought together unions, political parties, civic organisations and...
Bring us back ‘in-house’ – demand Barts SERCO strikers
BARTS Hospital Trust workers organised a march from the hospital to a meeting at Altab Ali Park on the final Friday of their two-week...
Sri Lankan health workers begin indefinite pay strike – defying five-year...
Sri Lankan health workers launched an indefinite pay strike on Monday, 7th February, protesting against the government’s failure to address salary and other issues. The...
US workers mobilise in fight for trade unions and unionisation!
STARBUCKS, the world’s largest coffee chain, has been stunned by an explosion of its workers demanding trade union rights across America. Last year, a group...
Clover workers strike in SA since November 22
The General Industries Workers Union of SA (Giwusa) has lambasted Clover, claiming that the massive South African dairy producer is lining its pockets at...
Three weeks of Goldsmiths University strike underway
THREE weeks of strikes at Goldsmith’s University in south London began yesterday morning and continue today by members of the University and College Union...
Civil servants are dreading energy bill hike of 54%
CIVIL servants in the PCS union have shared how they are dreading the steep rise in energy prices as energy regulator Ofgem yesterday confirmed...
Mass Whipp’s Cross Strike Rally
A MASS Rally of over 150 Serco strikers and supporters took place at Walthamstow’s Whipp’s Cross Hospital yesterday morning, as part of their two-week...
Barts Serco Workers Strike Begins
MASSES of workers and supporters turned out for the first day of the 15 day strike action at the Royal London Hospital yesterday, part...
Striking Clover Workers Demand Halt Wage Cuts And Sackings
STRIKING Clover workers marched in Johannesburg last Thursday demanding that the company halt retrenchments and wage cuts. The workers also picketed outside the Israel Trade...
The Tories are split to the hilt! The trade unions must...
THE SPLIT in the Tory Party over the planned hike in National Insurance (NI) has got wider and deeper! Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s proposed 1.25...
Tory war on unemployed must be answered with a general strike...
THE LATEST Tory onslaught on the unemployed was revealed by Boris Johnson at Prime Minister’s Question Time on Wednesday when he praised the ‘Way...
Tory party split over huge NI tax rise – It is...
THE TORY government is being ripped apart from top to bottom, with every day bringing new reports of ministers fighting amongst themselves in a...
Global action plan needed for worldwide nurse shortage!
A NEW report from the International Council of Nurses calls for a global action plan to address the ‘nursing workforce crisis and prevent an...
700,000 London families plunged into fuel poverty
THREE quarters of a million families in London will be plunged into fuel poverty after energy bills spiral by as much as 50% in...
US nurses National Day of Action for safe staffing
NATIONAL Nurses United held a National Day of Action on January 13th to demand their employers, and the Biden administration protect registered nurses (RNs),...
Thousands of Nurses protest across USA! – against staff shortages in...
AMID a steep surge in Covid-19 cases fuelled by the Omicron variant, thousands of nurses on Thursday staged nationwide protests against staff shortage in...
Hundreds of thousands of UK firms ‘looking down the barrel’ of...
BRITISH capitalism enters 2022 with experts and business owners predicting a massive surge in bankruptcies amongst SMEs (small to medium sized enterprises with no...
Strike wave hits UK as workers rise up against bankrupt capitalism!
AS CHRISTMAS approaches, the strike wave sweeping Britain is far from abating, in fact it is growing in strength and determination by the day...
Bring LT cleaners back in-house
AS THE Omicron crisis grips the capital, Labour politicians yesterday called for public ownership of London Transport cleaning services. The MPs and peers made the...
Amazon working through the tornado ‘inexcusable’ says US Retail, Wholesale and...
THE RWDSU (Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union) has issued a devastating ‘Statement on the Amazon Warehouse Collapse,’ after at least six workers were...
Ex-President Trump launches attack on Netanyahu
FORMER US president Donald Trump has launched another verbal attack on his one-time close ally Benjamin Netanyahu, saying the ex-Israeli prime minister did not...
60 per cent of gig economy workers injured at work get...
THE MAJORITY of gig economy workers are injured at work and suffer from sprains, cuts that require stitches, and even fractures and broken bones. According...
Trade Unions must call a general strike now to scrap the...
ON TUESDAY the Unite union, which has 100,000 members working in the health sector, wrote to every member of the House of Lords urging...
Amazon workers in USA win second vote for union
AMAZON warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama, USA are getting a second vote on unionising, after a National Labour Relations Board (NLRB) official ruled in...
Students join striking university staff – Day one of 3-day strike...
AS PART of the nationwide three-day strike to combat pay and pension cuts to university staff, a team of over 40 activists from unions...
Australian teachers to strike over pay & workload
AUSTRALIAN school teachers and principals in New South Wales (NSW) are taking part in a pay strike next Tuesday, December 7th. The 67,000-member union said...
Covid measures reintroduced tomorrow – Javid under fire for not testing...
TORY Health Secretary Sajid Javid has said face masks will be compulsory in shops and on public transport in England from tomorrow in response...
MakeAmazonPay – action in 20 countries!
WORKING people across the world were leading a coalition taking action on Black Friday 26th November to build pressure on Amazon to improve its...
Global Amazon protests and strikes!
PROTESTS took place worldwide outside Amazon buildings on ‘Black Friday’ yesterday, in the US, UK and across Europe. Black Friday is the busiest online shopping...
Tories have blood on their hands over Channel drownings
TWENTY-SEVEN people, including a pregnant woman and three children, were drowned attempting to cross the Channel in an inflatable boat on Wednesday – the...
Amazon workers to strike in 20 countries this Friday
On ‘Black Friday’ this week, a group of unions and grassroots organisations, known as the Make Amazon Pay Coalition, will stage coordinated protests and...
‘We are meeting at the point of a worldwide explosion of...
‘WE ARE meeting today in a period where the world crisis of capitalism has reached the point of explosion,’ All Trades Unions Alliance National...
Sheffield refuse workers vote for indefinite strike!
TWO HUNDRED Sheffield refuse workers voted unanimously on Monday to go on indefinite strike from Monday 22nd November. The vote took place at a mass...