Electric Mini to be built in Oxford BBC 2nd July, 2017 The electric vehicle will be based on the 3-door hatchback model A fully electric version of the Mini will be built at the Cowley plant in…Read more…
Merseyrail strike over driver-only trains has ‘rock solid’ support
The row is over plans for driver-only operation of new trains. Similar disputes have broken out across the rail industry. A strike by workers on Merseyrail in a dispute over driver-only trains was…Read more…
One to Watch: Save South Tyneside Hospital Campaign:
http://www.savesouthtynesidehospital.org/ Campaign members marching in the Durham Miners Gala. Members of the Save South Tyneside Hospital Campaign have been taking part in the consultation meetings…Read more…
Spending on the NHS in England:
Total health spending in England is nearly £124 billion in 2017/18 and is expected to rise to over £125 billion by 2020, taking inflation into account. Around £110 billion will be spent on the day to…Read more…
Overview of Venezuela’s Current Situation
– Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Canada – The current situation of institutional instability that the Venezuelan society is experiencing, are a consequence of actions…Read more…
Public sector worker wages down
Public sector workers’ real wages in 2017 are down thousands of pounds a year compared to 2010, the TUC has found. Prison officers, paramedics and NHS dieticians are all down over £3,800 a year….Read more…
High Court permanent ban on industrial action by prison officers:
Prison officers permanently banned from striking after Home Office win High Court bid ‘It’s only a matter of time before a member of staff gets killed,’ warns deputy…Read more…
Transaction tax:
The circulation of goods from the point of manufacture to the point of consumption should be carried out by administrative means only. The market economy of commodity exchange, is an unwieldy and…Read more…
Hospital Cleaners’ Strike:
Cleaners at London hospitals stage seven-day strike over pay More than 700 cleaners, security guards, catering staff and porters walk out after Serco refuses 30p a an hour pay rise Domestic staff in…Read more…
Russian-Chinese Joint Statement On Korean Conflict (full text)
The Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China are the Korean Peninsula’s neighbours, therefore the development of the situation in the region concerns the national interests of both…Read more…
Durham Miners Gala:
Upholding the Spirit and Traditions of the Miners! Building the Independent Political Movement of the Working Class! Statement of the Northern Region of RCPB(ML), July 8, 2017 The Durham Miners Gala…Read more…
Picturehouse Workers fight for Workers’ Rights:
In 2014 Cineworld was subject to industrial action owing to its refusal to pay the London Living Wage to its staff. Industrial action resumed in October 2016 over the issue of the London Living Wage,…Read more…
Letter to RTUC from Mike Nobbs Sec I.W. TUC:
The Hypocrisy of Jeremy Hunt, who suggested lifting the nurses pay cap in recognition of their “absolute brilliant” work ethic. The truth is that the government has lost its majority…Read more…
One of the biggest NHS strikes in history is about to happen:
– but you won’t hear about it This year Serco took over services in NHS hospitals. From that moment on I felt my working life became unbearable Within three days of taking over the Royal…Read more…
Unite leader demands financial fairness for the North East
07 July 2017 Len McCluskey will call for the same deal for the North East of England as for Northern Ireland, when he addresses the Durham Miners’ Gala tomorrow (Saturday 8 July). The general…Read more…
Sellafield firefighters to strike in pay row
The Sellafield site employs about 10,000 people and is in the process of being decommissioned Firefighters at the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant are to strike after “last-chance”…Read more…
Union gears up for a summer of campaigning:
First meeting of new national executive council gets straight down to business UNISON’s new national executive council lost no time in outlining plans for a hot summer of campaigning when it…Read more…
Scotland: Public sector pay cap for college staff abandoned as unions back proposal
1st July Finance Secretary Derek Mackay THE cap on public sector pay is about to be broken for 5500 support staff in Scotland’s further education colleges. Following several weeks of negotiations…Read more…
British Airways has begun a 16-day walkout
BA cabin staff at the UK’s busiest airport staged a strike in a long-running pay dispute. Members of Unite walked out from midnight, July 1st, at Heathrow, with union claims about “poverty pay”. BA…Read more…
Refuse workers Strike:
Birmingham’s refuse workers go on strike Members of the Unite union will are stopping work from 10:45 until 15:37 BST on Friday. Further stoppages are also planned. The union claims…Read more…