Unions tell ministers mass testing plans are inoperable , and pledge to back schools who refuse
Freddie Whittaker Fri 18th Dec 2020, 14.38 schoolsweek Read More...
18 Dec 2020 - 15:51 by WDNF	Workers Movement |

The burning of Cork, 100 years ago
December 11, 2020 · 12:44 am Republican News This week marks the 100 year anniversary of the burning of Cork City by British Crown Forces. An account (abridged from an essay by historian Donal Fallon) of the conflict before and the cruelty during the devastating Cork City fire. “The most colossal single act of vandalism committed in the whole period of the national struggle” was how Florence O’Donoghue, the Head of Intelligence of the Cork No.1 Brigade of the IRA, described the destruction of Cork City on the night of 11 December, 1920. Read More...
18 Dec 2020 - 10:53 by WDNF	National |

Ethiopian Tigrayans and Eritreans demonstrate in London against the war on Tigray
Mekete Tigray UK Dec 9, 2020 Read More...
18 Dec 2020 - 10:09 by WDNF	International |

Schools defy council leader’s request to close
Schools Weekby James Carr Mon 14th Dec 2020, 10.34 Read More...
14 Dec 2020 - 16:55 by WDNF	National |

CLEANER’S UNION UVW FORCES GREAT ORMOND STREET CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL TO END OUTSOURCING AND BRING HUNDREDS OF OUTSOURCED WORKERS INTO THE DIRECT EMPLOYMENT OF THE NHS
10.12.2020 / NEWS / PRESS RELEASES / GOSH Hundreds of cleaners outsourced to the multinational contractor OCS at the world renowned Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH) will be made NHS employees on 1st August 2021 following a campaign by trade union United Voices of the World (UVW). UVW submitted a 45-page claim to the Board of GOSH and were poised to commence a ballot for industrial action when the announcement was made. This victory marks the end of decades of outsourcing at GOSH and the end of a £10 million a year contract with outsourcing giant OCS. This is the second time this year that UVW has forced an NHS Trust to end outsourcing, the first being Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, who gave their 1,200 outsourced staff NHS contracts on 1st April 2020 after protracted strike action which also saw the hospital peacefully occupied. Read More...
11 Dec 2020 - 13:36 by WDNF	Workers Movement |

Support the BattleforBarnoldswick
NSSN 514: December 8, 2020 Workers have been taking industrial action after work was offshored to Singapore. In response to this justified action, Rolls Royce has taken more work to factories in Singapore, Japan and Spain, threatening the viability of the plant. The NSSN pledges our full support and solidarity to the workers and their union Unite. We continue to demand that in order to save jobs and communities, companies and plants threatened with closure should be taken into public ownership. Solidarity to the #BattleforBarnoldswick Watch the video of last Saturday’s car rally in support of striking Barnoldswick Rolls-Royce workers https://youtu.be/AHj2m22V550 Read More...
11 Dec 2020 - 12:53 by WDNF	Workers Movement |

GMB hosts minute’s silence for Avonmouth victims
By Tim Lezard 10th December 2020 - 8:00 am Union News Read More...
10 Dec 2020 - 13:04 by WDNF	Workers Movement |

This extra INSET is just another late and empty gesture
ROBIN BEVAN headteacher, Southend High School for Boys and national president, NEU Wed 9th Dec 2020, 9.45 Headteachers wouldn’t be forgiven this lack of foresight yet schools ministers continue to issue policy on the hoof, writes Robin Bevan schoolsweek Read More...
9 Dec 2020 - 15:51 by WDNF	Workers Movement |

AstraZeneca Vaccine Only 62percent Effective, Impact On Elderly Unclear As More Data Needed
by Tyler Durden Tue, 12/08/2020 - 11:33 Via Zerohedge Unlike the last few weeks, 'vaccine Monday' has become 'vaccine Tuesday', as the Britain's "V-Day" vaccinations grabbed headlines earlier, and now the country's most promising project - the AstraZeneca-Oxford jab - has published peer-reviewed data in the Lancet purporting to show that the shot is safe and effective. However, many questions about its efficacy and safety remain, and if anything, the data suggests that more research on the jab is needed. Read More...
8 Dec 2020 - 18:06 by WDNF	National |

Heathrow Strike. Workers walkout over savage wage cuts
Monday 30 November 2020Unite Read More...
4 Dec 2020 - 21:16 by WDNF	Workers Movement |

Workers are not going to pay for the crisis. News from the Frontline
December 2, 2020 Written by Counterfire Counterfire's fortnightly digest rounding up the stories of working people getting organised and fighting back Read More...
3 Dec 2020 - 11:09 by WDNF	Workers Movement |

Jamaican nationals taken off charter flight in eleventh hour over trafficking concerns
May Bulman Social Affairs Correspondent, Independent Wednesday 02 December 2020 Home Office accused of presiding over deportations that ‘lack due process’ after it acknowledges men who were due to be on flight may have been coerced into criminal activity In one case, a 30-year-old man who came to the UK aged 11 had his deportation cancelled on Tuesday evening after it emerged that he had indicators of having been trafficked Read More...
3 Dec 2020 - 10:20 by WDNF	National |