UK university staff walk out tomorrow
STAFF in UK universities are preparing to walk out for their third one-day strike tomorrow as part of a worsening pay dispute. On the eve...
Unite demands Guarantee for Port Talbot steel!
TATA steel at Port Talbot in Wales is being allowed to ‘wither on the vine’ while the specialised side of the business...
Tesco confirms 9,000 job cuts!
TESCO confirmed yesterday that 9,000 jobs are to be axed, as the supermarket giant looks to scrap the fresh food counters, including the in-store...
Save Ealing Hospital Maternity Unit
BUSWORKERS bought their tickets for the June 16th meeting to stop the closure of Ealing Hospital Maternity Unit yesterday. Last month, the Ealing Clinical Commissioning...
High Court blocks Academy
FOR the first time, the High Court has blocked an attempt to force a comprehensive school to become an academy. Teachers union NASUWT said yesterday...
Strike against 30% cuts
‘WE HAVE to take strike action where and when we can and as much as we can,’ Sharon Hutchinson, northwest regional organiser and equalities...
Cambridgeshire privatised care collapses! – service back to NHS
THE PRIVATE company UnitingCare has collapsed after only eight months and pulled out of running care for the elderly in Cambridgeshire. The company won an...
EUROSTAR 7 DAY STRIKE! –as government agrees to ACAS talks over Southern dispute
EUROSTAR rail unions RMT and TSSA are coming out on strike for seven days this month in a dispute over unsocial hours and...
Hospital doctors blow whistle on patient care standards!
‘HOSPITAL doctors are blowing the whistle on sliding standards in patient care – wards are full and without the staff to cope,’ the leader...
860,000 jobseekers are sanctioned in 2013
A HIGHLY critical report, published by a committee of MPs yesterday, suggests that Jobcentre staff are given targets for kicking people off benefits. The...
North London will suffer if Chase Farm closes
IT IS being made even clearer that North Londoners will suffer if the projected closure of Chase Farm A&E goes ahead. The number of people...
33% Fewer Hospital Beds!
‘WE ARE concerned that the implementation of the Health & Social Care Act risks the fragmentation of patient care highlighted in this report,’ Paul...
DUP to vote against Tory Budget!
THE Democratic Unionist Party is prepared to vote against the Budget on October 29, if their red lines for an EU deal are ignored...
‘ISSUE A CALL TO ARMS AND ORGANISE A GENERAL STRIKE!’ – airport workers urge...
‘UNITE said they were going to call a strike and they should have gone ahead with it. They said they were going to, but...
Universal Credit to hit the poorest!
THE Tory-led coalition is deliberately using Universal Credit to worsen the plight of poor families. A new report shows that millions of lower income working...
BMA collaborating with Tory White Paper!
Leaders of the British Medical Association (BMA) are pressing ahead with assisting GP commissioning, as outlined in the government’s White Paper to privatise the...
Nurses Union Slams Low Pay Plan!
THE Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday warned that local pay will harm patient care. It did so as it slammed the plan by 20...
Fire Deaths – 15% Increase In 3 Years
THE number of people dying in fire-related incidents in England has seen its biggest percentage increase in 20 years, data published by the Home...
Health Act Opens Door To Privateers
the Health and Social Care Act, which came into force yesterday, ‘is the privatisation of the National Health Service and must be defeated through...
Vote Wrp – Vote Arj In Ealing
THE VOTE Arj Thiara Workers Revolutionary Party for Ealing Southall campaign team got great support from Ealing Hospital, Greenford Bus Garage and Southall Mosques,...
NHS Bosses Using Election To Gag Staff – Gmb
NHS bosses are trying to ‘gag’ staff during the general election, GMB Union revealed yesterday, warning that health service workers are being told they...
Bma To March To Tuc Rally
LONDON’S doctors are to march through London to the TUC’s ‘Save Our NHS Rally’ at Central Halls Westminster on Wednesday March 7th. The London Regional...
‘Unlawful Killings’ On Bloody Sunday
The Tory-led coalition government yesterday protested against leaks which revealed that the Saville Inquiry report into Bloody Sunday has found that some of the...
Tnt–2,000 Jobs Threat
WHISTL, formerly known as TNT, has suspended its door-to-door delivery service in London, Liverpool and Manchester and is threatening to sack 2,000 workers, it...
Chinese fury over Tory plan to kick Huawei out of UK!
‘WHETHER the UK can provide an open, fair and non-discriminatory business environment for Chinese companies is a litmus test for British markets after Brexit,...
BA 98% Vote For Strike!
CARGO workers at British Airways have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action in the bitter dispute over the company’s plans to fire and...
Widespread winter blackouts! – nine power stations are to close
WITH nine power stations closing, the GMB warned yesterday about government ‘complacency’ and potential ‘widespread power blackouts’. The government’s secret plans, called ‘Operation Black Start’,...
3 Days Of Junior Doctors Strike Action
THE BMA has today confirmed the dates and details of possible industrial action by junior doctors, following a decision by BMA Council, the body...
LABOUR READY FOR EU SELL-OUT – as Watson prepares for EU elections
TORY Justice Secretary David Gauke indicated yesterday that besieged PM May will seek to put her Withdrawal Agreement with a permanent Customs Union tagged...
‘Special Place In Hell’ For The Brexiteers!
EUROPEAN Council President Donald Tusk dropped his mask of reasonableness yesterday in Brussels when he declared that there is a ‘special place in hell’...
NHS unions demand pay rise!
THE RCN and other unions representing health service employees in the UK yesterday called on the NHS pay review body to recommend an above-inflation...
Civil servants stop Ealing Tax Office
TWO HUNDRED civil servants employed at the International House Tax Office in Ealing Broadway west London went on strike yesterday, determined to defend their...
‘Working Poor’ Evictions Scandal!
THE WORKING poor have now become the working homeless, as nurses, teachers and firefighters are among those being thrown out of their homes...
Southern bailout stinks!
‘THIS STINKS of another multi-million pound taxpayer subsidy to bail out the failing Southern rail part of the Govia Thameslink franchise,’ Mick Cash general...
‘Industrial action inevitable’ – Unite
‘LEGAL and industrial action is inevitable,’ Unite said yesterday, the day a mass meeting took place at the grounds of Bedfont FC in Feltham,...
Strike ballot vote will be a ‘game changer’
COMMUNICATION Workers Union (CWU) deputy general secretary Dave Ward yesterday pledged that the union will defend the terms and conditions of postal workers following...
Holiday Hunger Crisis
NEARLY 150,000 children in the Midlands are at risk of going hungry over the summer holidays, according to a Stoke-on-Trent MP. The holiday hunger crisis...
800,000 fire-risk dryers in UK homes – Whirlpool admits to Parliamentary committee
WHIRLPOOL admitted, when grilled by a Parliamentary committee yesterday, that as many as 800,000 recalled dryers known to be prone to sparking potentially lethal...
Unite Pleads With Tories To Extend Job Retention Scheme!
UNITE and over 100 MPs have joined forces to plead with Chancellor Rishi Sunak to extend the job retention scheme (JRS) for the aviation...
17.8m out of work in eurozone
FIGURES released yesterday showed eurozone unemployment hit a new record high in June, with a jobless rate of 11.2% and 17.8 million people out...
Youth demand a future–no zero hours contracts
‘YOUTH demand a future! No Zero hour contracts!’ shouted the fifty-strong Young Socialists and Workers Revolutionary Party lobby of the Trades Union Congress in...
Obama gives May dressing down!
OUTGOING US President Barack Obama yesterday warned PM May that Britain was wrong to vote to leave the EU and suggested it is still...
Tories step up attacks on refugees & their lawyers
THE TORIES threatened refugees who refuse to board the Bibby Stockholm ‘death-trap barge’ with destitution yesterday, while Home Secretary Suella Braverman described their legal...
Stop Closure Of Ealing Maternity
‘OCCUPY to save Ealing Hospital, the time to act is now,’ Bill Rogers, train driver, chairman of Chingford ASLEF Branch and Secretary of the...
Greek Workers Voting ‘No!’
SOME 3,000 mostly young people marched to the European Commission offices in Athens on Thursday evening calling for a ‘NO’-‘OXI’ vote in Sunday’s referendum. A...