SUNAK’S FLEXIBLE FURLOUGH! – to bring in wage and job cuts & part-time working
‘THE FURLOUGH scheme can not continue indefinitely,’ Tory Chancellor Sunak said yesterday at the Downing Street daily briefing, announcing that by September, the employer...
NHS PORTERS AT RISK – transporting the dead in sheets as body bags...
NHS PORTERS at Epsom and St Helier Trust, not only have very ‘flimsy’ Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) but they are being forced to transport...
Johnson and Barnier clash over EU/UK fishing rights
TORY PM Johnson clashed yesterday with the EU’s Barnier over the thorny issue of Europeans fishing in UK waters and vice-versa. Speaking in Greenwich, Johnson...
Draconian police state powers
DRACONIAN emergency powers contained within the Coronavirus Bill were debated during the bill’s second reading in Parliament yesterday. Police state measures were outlined to detain...
Ventilator Rationing!
VENTILATORS are to be rationed, using tactics employed on the battlefield, where army medics choose who to treat and who to leave to bleed...
43% of doctors have absolutely no eye protection! – Nurses have no face masks!
NURSES are forced to ‘hold their breath’ because of inadequate face masks during dangerous operations, while doctors have absolutely no eye protection, it was...
Homeless Children Housed In Containers!
TENS of thousands of homeless children in England are ‘temporarily’ housed in converted shipping containers and office blocks, freezing in winter, sweltering in the...
‘One rule for them and another for us!’ – unions condemn Grenfell surrender
ATTORNEY General Suella Braverman’s undertaking that evidence given by contractors at the Grenfell Inquiry will not be used to prosecute them constitutes ‘One rule...
Chancellor ignores the crisis!
TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak said yesterday that the NHS will get ‘whatever resources it needs’ to cope with a coronavirus epidemic. He alleged to the...
‘CRADLE OF DISEASE’ – 4,000 packed into ASOS warehouse
JAM-PACKED ASOS clothing warehouse is a ‘cradle of disease’, terrified workers in the GMB union warned yesterday, calling for their entire operation to be...
‘Shut Down Inquiry! It’s A Disgrace!’
‘SHUT down the inquiry, it’s a disgrace!’ protesters shouted outside the Grenfell inquiry yesterday, on the first day it resumed after the Attorney General...
BMA condemns & rejects Primary Care specifications!
THE BMA’s England GP committee has voted not to accept a contract agreement with NHS England and condemned the recently-published draft service specifications outlining...
Ring before going to A&E! Dangerous triage system launched in Wales tomorrow! –...
A DANGEROUS phone triage scheme for A&E at Wales’ largest hospital is to be launched tomorrow in which patients are expected to ring before...
Coronavirus ripping through Belmarsh!
BELMARSH High Security prison is suffering from an outbreak of coronavirus to such an extent that it is ‘barely functioning’, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has...
Care workers have little or no protection says GMB
HORRIFYINGLY, care workers have been told if they test positive they will have to self-isolate at the care home and will not be able...
Stop ‘Uberisation Of Universities!’
OVER 300 striking lecturers, university staff and students rallied outside the Universities UK (UUK) HQ in Tavistock Square, central London yesterday shouting: ‘Hey, hey,...
Imperial College No Confidence Vote Against Gast & Sanderson!
STAFF at Imperial College London have voted ‘no confidence’ in the university’s President Alice Gast and Muir Sanderson Chief Financial Officer demanding that they...
94.5% yes for post strike – CWU leaders run away!
COMMUNICATION Workers Union (CWU) members in Royal Mail have beaten the anti-union laws for the third time in less than three years delivering a...
Grenfell Inquiry – No Prosecutions
THE Attorney General ruled yesterday that contractors can give evidence to the Grenfell inquiry without fear of prosecution over the 72 deaths. Grenfell United, the...
‘LAST FRIDAY IT WAS LIKE WAR ON THE STREETS OF PARIS’ Yellow vests tell...
TWO coachloads of French ‘Gilet Jaunes’ (Yellow Vests) joined the Committee to Defend Julian Assange ‘Bastille Day’ protest outside Belmarsh prison in south east...
Chancellor warns of ‘significant disruption!’
TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak has unveiled a £30bn Budget package to try to keep UK capitalism from being bankrupted and broken apart by the...
Decanted families warehoused in office blocks
FAMILIES are being ‘warehoused’ inside an office block in Harlow, Essex after being decanted from their local boroughs, with tenants forced to eat, drink...
RIFKIND VOWS TO BRING DOWN JOHNSON – admits he has no powers over China
FORMER Tory Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind spoke out in support of bringing down the Johnson government to prevent a no-deal Brexit yesterday. Appearing on the...
Stop mass deportation flight today! – demand 150 MPs and Lords
THE MASS deportation flight due to leave today with 50 people on board who came to the UK as children must be stopped! over...
British Gas engineers strike as bosses carry out ‘fire & rehire’
FORTY striking pickets gathered at the Gas Training Centre in Dartford yesterday, to protest against the ‘Fire and Rehire’ policy of Centrica, who now...
Youth Rise Up Against Capitalism
A THOUSAND school youth walked out of classes yesterday to join the mass protest in Parliament Square, furious at how capitalism is destroying the...
TUC National Day of Action on March 15!
There will be a National Day of Action on Budget Day, Wednesday 15th March, TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak announced yesterday, as hundreds of...
Tories have no plan for a second wave! – damning PAC report
THE TORIES have no plan to deal with a second spike of the deadly coronavirus. A fresh report just released by the Public Accounts Committee...
GRENFELL INQUIRY HALTED! – no date set for reopening
THE GRENFELL INQUIRY HAS BEEN HALTED! Hearings have been cancelled until the charman of the inquiry, Sir Martin Moore-Bick considers a demand from lawyers representing...
Fire and Rescue cuts puts flood victims lives at risk
VICIOUS Tory cuts to the tune of £140 million mean that fire and rescue services are fighting with one hand tied behind their back....
‘This is a fight we have to win’ says UCU
IMPERIAL College staff were boosted on their picket line yesterday morning by the support of an engineering student and a vintage bus. The nationwide strike...
14 Days Strike At 74 Universities!
THE BLAME for the disruption to students’ education by strike action starting today lays squarely at the door of vice-chancellors, said the University and...
Darroch quits – ‘thrown under a bus by Johnson’ say ‘Remainers’
SIR Kim Darroch has resigned as UK ambassador to the US, amid the row over leaked emails that lampooned President Trump’s administration, and threatened...
Coronavirus ‘Running Wild In Care Homes!’
THE LATEST figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which include every community death linked to Covid-19 in England and Wales, showed a...
COVID-19s BRUTAL IMPACT ON NHS says BMA leader Chaand Nagpaul
Thousands of cancer patients have not received the care they need and their conditions have worsened owing to the focus on Covid-19, the British...
RCN: No fees! Restore bursaries! Cancel debt!
‘FORCING student nurses to pay tuition fees has been a disaster,’ the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said yesterday, demanding that all student nurses’...
‘Nasty & repressive side of the government is revealed’ – Unite and GMB react...
RESPONDING to yesterday’s Queen’s Speech, the Unite union’s general secretary Len McCluskey said: ‘This Queen’s Speech reveals the nasty, repressive side of this government. ‘The...
‘Make the least unsafe decision!’ – Norfolk & Norwich hospital staff told
STAFF at Norfolk’s biggest hospital , the Norfolk and Norwich, were told to make the ‘least unsafe decision’ last week, when the hospital had...
A Fifth Of Small Businesses Are Going Under
A FIFTH of all small and medium-sized businesses in the UK are unlikely to get the cash they need to survive the next four...
Over Half Of All London Nurses Want To Leave The City!
OVER half of London’s nurses want to leave the city as the cost of living devours their income. The majority of nursing staff blame the...
NUS gives full support for university strikes!
THE NATIONAL Union of Students (NUS) threw its weight behind the biggest ever wave of strikes on university campuses yesterday. The NUS pledged its solid...
Tories announce £330bn bailout for big business
TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak yesterday unveiled a multi-billion bailout for big businesses in light of the coronavirus crisis. Speaking at the daily press conference Sunak...
‘THE NHS IS BEING SOLD OFF AS WE SPEAK!’ – says Anna Athow,...
THE British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday urged all Conservative Party leadership candidates to commit to excluding the NHS from any post-Brexit trade deals. In a...
ASLEF & TSSA strike action ballot
RAIL unions ASLEF and TSSA have announced that they will ballot their members for strike action on the railways. If the ASLEF ballot is successful...
Firefighters For NHS Front Line!
FIREFIGHTERS are to fit face masks and deliver vital PPE and medical supplies to NHS and care staff. Fire and Rescue personnel have volunteered to...