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WAGE growth is lagging behind inflation for the first time since mid-2014, official figures show. Average weekly earnings excluding bonuses increased by 2.1% in the...

THE Bank of England has warned the UK is facing its longest recession since records began, as it raised interest rates by the most...

EMERGENCY Motion E3 dealing with a ballot for national industrial action was passed unanimously at the CWU Postal Section Conference in Bournemouth yesterday. The Motion,...

The President and the General Secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) have urged people to join today’s national demonstration in Dublin,...

THE South African miners’ trade union Amcu has said it will march to the British embassy this week to hand over a memorandum...

END 15-minute care visits, the Royal College of Nursing and Unison health unions demanded yesterday, after the scandal of the consequences of such rushed...

‘We want freedom! We want Tamil Eelam! Stop the genocide’ shouted 2,000 Tamils demonstrating in central London yesterday. The protest outside the Commonwealth Conference taking...

‘THERE are no depths to which P&O and their Dubai owners at DP World will not sink to extract the maximum profit from ferry...

France was brought to a halt yesterday as over a million state employees went on strike, joining a week-long stoppage by transport workers. Teachers,...

HUNDREDS of Border Force workers at Heathrow Airport began four days of strike action yesterday against Tory attacks on their working conditions. The more than...

The squeeze on the availability of mortgages is expected to continue and get worse in the next three months, the Bank of England has...

LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn is to hold an emergency shadow cabinet meeting next Monday to discuss alleged anti-Semitism within the party. The meeting was called...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has called a general election for June 30 following the heavy defeat in last Sunday’s Euro elections of his...

‘I BELIEVE we can win this,’ Communication Workers Union General Secretary Bill Hayes told a mass rally against privatisation by over 600 postal workers...

‘FREE, Free Palestine’ chanted over 1,000 protesters waving Palestine flags outside the High Court yesterday. The court was holding an emergency hearing seeking a judicial...

Over forty Libyans demonstrated at Downing Street on Thursday evening to express their anger at the British government’s role in the war on their...

BA workers warned yesterday that cabin crew at British Airways are ready to strike over job and pay cuts. BA union convenors and...

DOCTORS at the BMA conference (ARM) yesterday voted for Motion 293 from the London Regional Council ‘to resist cuts and the privatisation of the...

OVER 50 exiled Chagossians living in the UK camped out in Trafalgar Square yesterday, the first day of a five-day occupation. ‘Help us to go...

‘COVID hospital numbers could get scary!’ Professor Chris Whitty said yesterday, adding that the UK is ‘not out of the woods yet’. ‘People should act...

TORY MP Steve Baker, deputy chairman of the Eurosceptic group the European Research Group (ERG), warned yesterday there is ‘trouble ahead’ for May. He tweeted:...

The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday expressed concern over the cancellation by an Oxford hospital of a routine heart procedure because of lack of...

Chief of Defence Staff Lord Guthrie yesterday gave his backing to a call from right wing think-tank, the Centre for Policy Studies, for ex-servicemen...

THE NHS is planning ‘previously unthinkable’ cuts to try to balance the books, according to a survey conducted by NHS Providers, which represents NHS...

the actual number of specialist doctor training posts available in the UK is 18,518 – not between 22,000 and 23,000 as the government had...

‘SIR Graham Brady has confirmed that he has received 48 letters from Conservative MPs so there will now be a vote of confidence in...

STRIKING Royal London Hospital ancillary workers rallying outside Barts Hospital in their fight for pay and improved conditions yesterday demanded that the TUC Special...

STAFF isolation exemptions are absolutely the wrong answer to the government’s failure to control spiralling infection rates, says doctors’ union the BMA. Responding to news...

ISRAELI military authorities yesterday handed 25 residents of al-Sawiyeh village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, demolition orders for their houses...

A SEVERE shortfall of both A&E doctors and hospital beds must be tackled, the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) said in response...

LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers were yesterday campaigning outside the Transport and General Workers Union regional office in Hillingdon, near Heathrow Airport. On Saturday the...

THE General Council of the ADEDY (public sector trades unions federation) has called another 48-hour national strike for today and tomorrow against the destruction...

UNITE members at RATP London United yesterday held their sixth day of strike action against £2,500 per annum pay cuts being imposed by French...

British Member of Parliament George Galloway left the UK on Sunday, December 6th with a convoy of humanitarian aid and will arrive in the...

THE Fire Brigades Union (FBU) announced yesterday that following a meeting on proposed cuts to services in Oxfordshire it is to hold a strike...

‘TRADE unions must call a general strike to kick out this Tory government,’ Chris Anglin, College of Haringey, Enfield and North East London (CONEL)...

‘SCHOOLS must be returned to their local authority family of schools,’ Kevin Courtney, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union, said, responding...

BRITISH Airways Cargo workers begin nine days of strike action on Christmas Day, however their union, Unite, has called off all pickets. Under BA’s fire...

THE British Medical Association yesterday expressed concern for the future of the NHS, after Health Secretary Hunt signalled more savage cuts. A BMA spokesperson said:...

SUPPORT for the policy of occupying Chase Farm Hospital to stop its closure is growing. Staff, patients and visitors complained angrily about the...

THE BMA has criticised the ‘appalling’ failure by health privateer Capita to send cervical screening letters to up to 48,000 women. It has written...

THERE was a hardened determination on the striking postal workers picket lines yesterday morning, as Communication Workers Union (CWU) members defiantly rebutted the Royal...

THE Palestinian Red Crescent Society said its medics are receiving dozens of urgent pleas to evacuate casualties but are unable to respond because of...

SEVENTY thousand council workers are to be balloted in every borough in England and Wales in preparation for a strike action against a ‘derisory’...

THE SUPREME Court yesterday openly sided with a Parliament full of Remainers condemning the proroguing of Parliament by Tory PM Boris Johnson as completely...