Peter Randle News Today

A couple claiming to be exempt from paying rent knew their obligations, tribunal rules.

A couple who believed having no written tenancy agreement would allow them to live rent-free in their neighbour’s townhouse after their insurance coverage

The ability of Unite to contain the dispute and renew its relationship with the Labour authority has been made possible by the Socialist Workers Party and the Socialist Party.

National strike in Belgian public sector against wage restraint and mass demonstration of 80,000 in Brussels; cabin crew at Ryanair, EasyJet and national carriers across Europe plan strikes over staff shortages and to reverse pay cuts during pandemic; Greek healthcare workers join national 24-hour strike over staff shortages leading to exhaustion; UK refuse collection drivers employed by scab-organising Coventry Labour council continue five-month pay strike; strikes by 1,000 outsourced cleaners ...

Thousands of metalworkers in Spain continue strikes for new collective agreements, joined by teacher walkouts over work conditions; thousands of German steelworkers and dockers at six ports join warning strikes over pay; construction workers building new Metro and transport workers in Thessaloniki, Greece demand protection from Covid-19 after outbreak; protests by workers in Palestinian West Bank as prices rise 30 percent since March; after isolating three-month strike at South African Sibanye-S...

General strike in Italy to protest government spending on war; Strikes continue across French transport network including bus, tram and rail workers over pay and conditions.

Strikes by Palestinian teachers on the West Bank over pay and conditions continue in defiance of union; teachers in 50 cities across Iran and petrochemical workers walk out over pay and conditions; general strike in Algeria over rise in price of cooking oil and wheat; miners at Sibanye-Stillwater gold mines South African entering third month of strike reject latest pay offer and hold out for 9.8 percent; one-day national strikes and rallies in Italy and Belgium over pay

Spanish shop workers at Douglas strike against threat to 1,000 jobs, while bus drivers walk out in Zaragoza over collective bargaining; unions capitulate to Finnish government’s strike-breaking against pay stoppages by 100,000 municipal workers and nurses; UK Chep pallet production workers in five month pay strike are voting in a ballot to continue their struggle; South African Sibanye-Stillwater gold mine strike over pay enters week seven as unions delay calling out platinum miners

Nurses and municipal workers in Finland continue pay strikes as government plans strike-breaking measures; healthcare workers in Spain protest and strike against deteriorating conditions; long-running cost of living strikes continue in UK by pallet workers in Manchester and refuse workers in Coventry; gold miners’ pay strike at Sibanye-Stillwater in South Africa continues into second month

National 24-hour strike by 20,000 French public sector workers over pay and conditions; workers at all eight Amazon warehouses in France begin stoppage over pay; Finnish nurses and municipal workers strike over poor pay and conditions while government increases military spending by 70 percent; five-week strike by thousands of miners at South African Sibanye-Stillwater gold mines threatens to spread to coal mines which supply biggest electricity supplier