A fire brigade union leader warns of strikes after reacting angrily to a 2% salary offer. The Board of the Fire Brigade Union (FBU) recommends rejecting the offer, which it says is well below the rising inflation rate. Between 2009 and 2021, firefighters’ real wages were cut by 12%, or nearly £4,000, the FBU said. … Read more
Dmitry Kiselyov warned that Russia’s Satan 2 missile would hit Britain first and would be followed by its underwater Poseidon missile, which would blast 500-metre tsunami waves over Britain Dmitry Kiselyov threatened Britain after false claims were made in Moscow that the prime minister was planning to attack the Kremlin ( Image: Rossiya 1 / … Read more
Greta Callahan, president of the teacher chapter of the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers (MFT), addresses the media March 7, 2022, in Minneapolis. (Carlos Gonzalez/Star Tribune via AP) Subscribe to the nation Subscribe now for as little as $2 a month! Thank you for signing up for the nation‘s weekly newsletter. Thank you for signing up. … Read more
University staff across the country have gone on strike, amid a protracted dispute between universities and the University and College Union over pay and pensions. A total of 68 universities across the country are involved in the dispute, with staff due to take industrial action from today (February 14th) and further walkouts planned later in … Read more
Unite has warned Labor that it could stop funding the party, threatening a financial black hole as the dispute between Labour-run Coventry council and its bin lorry drivers escalates. The trade union, which was Labour’s largest funder under Jeremy Corbyn, has already significantly reduced its financial support for the Labor Party – but the union’s … Read more
Private schools have said they are “disappointed” by a teachers’ strike over pensions, after a rise in pension contributions put them in a “very difficult position”. On Thursday, teachers at 23 independent schools within the Girls’ Day School Trust (GDST) went on strike, with around 1,500 members of the NEU teaching union involved. Six days … Read more
ASHKELON, Israel (AP) — A 91-year-old Israeli woman who was badly wounded by a Palestinian rocket attack last May died Sunday from complications from her injuries, her family said. Naomi Pearlman, a Holocaust survivor originally from Poland, was injured when a rocket struck her home in the southern city of Ashkelon during last May’s war … Read more
New York City Mayor Eric Adams and President Joe Biden have taken wildly different paths to their current posts, but they sense a similarity in each other, and each man has decided to lean on the other as they chart out the tricky political terrain before them. The president on Thursday will sit down with … Read more
Myanmar’s military rulers have threatened to jail anti-coup protesters who take part in a “silent strike” on Tuesday, a year since the generals seized power, as the United States, Britain and Canada imposed new sanctions. The Southeast Asian country has been in chaos since Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and other figures from her … Read more
Unite Here Local 11 members strike for voting rights. (Here unite bar 11) Last week, as Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema reiterated her opposition to filibuster reform as a way to protect voters, a dozen union activists from Unite Here Local 11 went on a hunger strike outside the state capital in Phoenix. Readers may remember … Read more
