Huge losses revealed at Purplebricks after takeover Property Online estate agency Purplebricks racked up huge losses in the year it was taken over by Strike, it has been revealed. New accounts filed nine months after the Companies House deadline show the firm’s pre-tax losses went from £19.4m to £37.8m in the year to 31 March 2024. Over the same period, its turnover rose [...]
Boeing defence workers go on strike over pay dispute Business Thousands of Boeing defence workers have gone on strike for the first time in nearly 30 years in a fresh blow to the struggling aircraft company. Members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace workers (IAM) working at Boeing defence manufacturing facilities in in Illinois and Missouri voted against the firm’s latest offer over [...]
Doctors’ strikes prove militant BMA is prepared to put patients’ lives at risk Opinion Resident doctors are endangering their patients’ lives with immoral strikes based on distorted calculations. The British public must finally see their militant union for what it really is, says Alys Denby “Resident doctors” as we must now call them (‘junior’ being a term fit for barristers but far too demeaning for these life savers) will [...]
Sajid Javid joins calls to replace ‘unfit’ NHS with insurance model July 14, 2025 Former health secretary Sajid Javid has joined calls for a major overhaul of the National Health Service (NHS) that would see it replaced by a universal social insurance-based model. Javid said a “serious conversation with taxpayers” about how to fund the institution was “long overdue,” throwing his weight behind a paper by Policy Exchange which [...]
RMT union boss Mick Lynch to step down January 9, 2025 Mick Lynch, the RMT general secretary who gained national notoriety during a series of train strikes in recent years, is to retire. Lynch, 63, was elected general secretary in 2021 after previously serving two terms as assistant general secretary and another two on the union’s national executive committee executive. The union boss has become a [...]
Rail strikes: Warning of ‘irreparable fallout’ from train walkouts January 2, 2025 The Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) has warned of the “irreparable fallout” from the ongoing round of Avanti West Coast rail strikes. Passengers faced disruption after rail managers who are members of the RMT union voted to strike on 31 December and 2 January, with disruption on routes to Glasgow, North Wales, Blackpool and Edinburgh. [...]
Harrods: Christmas strikes set for crisis-hit department store December 10, 2024 Harrods, the crisis-hit iconic London department store, is braced for another blow as hundreds of workers voted to strike over the critical Christmas period. Employees represented by the United Voices of the World (UVW) union will walk out from 8pm on Friday, 20 December, to Sunday, 22 December, and again from 12am on Boxing Day [...]
Black Friday: Amazon workers to strike on one of busiest retail days of the year November 25, 2024 Amazon workers in more than 30 countries, including the UK and US, will strike this Black Friday in a protest against the labour practices of the tech giant. The strike, coordinated by the Make Amazon Pay campaign, is the fourth consecutive year of organised action. Protests will also take place in major cities in dozens [...]
