TWO-TIER GPs CONDEMNED
THE BMA warned yesterday that the Health and Social Care Bill will lead to more ‘conflicts of interest’, after it emerged yesterday that a...
Capita Pensions Strike
ON the day that Capita has announced its half year results Unite, representing staff at Capita, has said that staff have...
GREEK WORKERS MARCH ON MINISTRY
HUNDREDS of local government workers entered a Finance Ministry building in Athens on Thursday demanding that there will be no cut to their dangerous...
Pupils miss out! Primary schools at bursting point
PARENTS found out yesterday if their child got into the primary school of their choice, while at their annual conference, the National Education Union...
Labour announces plans to cut public services year on year
‘WE HAVE got to make our case, explaining our vision house by house, street by street, town by town’, Labour leader Ed Miliband...
EU Withdrawal Bill proceeds Lords amendment rejected
THE GOVERNMENT saw off an attempt by Remainers to adopt the Lords amendment which would have allowed a ‘meaningful vote’ on the final Brexit...
London, Essex and York tough restrictions imposed – while Liverpool intensive care beds reach...
MILLIONS of people in London, Essex, York and other areas face tougher Tier 2 Covid measures from Saturday, Tory Health Secretary Matt Hancock said...
UK is bankrupt! – UK national debt is 103.5% of GDP
UK GOVERNMENT borrowing hit £36.1bn in September as the UK continued heavy spending to support the economy during the coronavirus pandemic. The figure was £28.4bn...
Defend Heathrow jobs rally today!
HUNDREDS of British Airways workers are demonstrating outside the airline’s Heathrow HQ today against the outsourcing and offshoring of their jobs to Tata Consultancy...
US BEGINS NEW ARMS RACE! – as Senate agrees to spend £1.37 trillion next...
THE US has begun a new arms race with President Trump’s announcement of the US’ formal withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF). This...
70% of medical students can’t afford necessities!
SEVEN out of 10 medical students cannot afford basic necessities, finds a BMA survey. An annual BMA poll found over two-thirds (70%) of 639 surveyed...
‘Indefinite strike to win’ – demand striking bus drivers
‘INDEFINITE strike action to win it quick and win it now,’ Hounslow bus garage driver and Unite member Stoyan Ivanov demanded yesterday. More than 2,000...
Tories Split Over Eu
PRIME Minister Cameron yesterday defended his renegotiation of Britain’s terms of EU membership, as a number of his cabinet ministers lined up to call...
British Gas Staff Reject Boss’s Obscene Rise
THE Unite and GMB trade unions have called on Ford to come clean over the future of its UK operations. They are warning that its...
US will fall off fiscal cliff
THE US economy will fall off the ‘fiscal cliff’ when automatic spending cuts and tax increases kick in at the beginning of next year,...
Junior Doctors Ready To Strike
TIME is now running as far as the negotiations between the BMA’s Junor Doctors Committee (JDC) and the Tory government is concerned. As part of...
UK Tax Havens Scandal
‘The UK is responsible for one in five of the world’s tax havens – that’s more than any other country,’ stated Tax Justice Policy...
Cutting council funding will harm public health!
FURTHER funding cuts to local councils will impact on long-term health outcomes, the British Medical Association (BMA) has warned. The government last week announced a...
12,000 police plus troops ready to assault Calais ‘camp’
TENSIONS were high in the ‘Jungle’ Calais refugee camp yesterday as defiant occupants braced themselves for today’s scheduled closure. There were clashes with French...
CROW CALLS FOR GENERAL STRIKE! – no mandate for coalition cuts!
THE RMT’s Bob Crow yesterday called for ‘general coordinated strike action allied to community direct action’ to resist the ConDem coalition government’s...
Tuc Joint Statement With Cbi And Eu Bosses!
AHEAD of this week’s European Council meeting, the Directors General of Business Europe and the CBI, Markus Beyrer and Carolyn Fairbairn, and the General...
US Orders Tories Stay In The Eu!
THE US has laid down the law to the Tory government that the UK must stay in the EU and keep its Trident...
61,000 nursing posts at risk – says RCN nurses leader Carter
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) warned yesterday that the NHS is ‘sleepwalking into a crisis’, and demanded immediate action to stop trusts cutting...
Savage attack on disabled planned!
THE PCS union, which represents JobCentre workers, yesterday denounced as ‘appalling’ planned savage cuts to social security for sick and disabled people. It was commenting...
Maternity Crisis
‘THE UK’s health services are hopelessly underfunded in terms of resources and staff who are trained to deal with new mothers with mental health...
IFS points to huge inflation
ANALYSIS by the Institute of Fiscal Studies shows that ‘real median household income in 2013–14 is more than 6% lower than before the economic...
‘Labour will end austerity’ – claims McDonnell
‘AT THE heart of Jeremy’s campaign on which he has received such a huge mandate, was the rejection of austerity politics’, Labour shadow chancellor...
Kensal Rise library picket!
Save Kensal Green Library campaigners are maintaining their round-the-clock presence outside their local library. Outside the library yesterday morning campaigner Phil O’Shea explained: ‘This campaign...
‘UK will leave EU on March 29’ – insists PM May
IN A House of Commons statement yesterday PM May insisted that her deal is the best that she can get and that even...
Royal Commission ‘to break up the NHS’ says KONP
KEEP Our NHS Public (KONP) is demanding that Labour oppose the setting up of a Royal Commission to look at the NHS and...
Nurses fury over pay deal! – EGM called for September 28th
THE RCN Council has called an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) which will take place on 28/09/18 at 11.00 am at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre,...
URGENT ACTION NEEDED! – to prevent another Grenfell says the FBU
THE Fire Brigades Union (FBU) called today for urgent action on a range of fire and building safety issues to prevent another Grenfell. On the...
‘NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE!’ – GPs condemn the Care Quality Commission
THE Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection regime aimed at GP practices is damaging patient care by diverting resources and GP time away from treating...
ANGRY GPs SLAM CQC!
GP LEADERS in the doctors’ union, the BMA, yesterday backed a ‘no confidence’ vote in the Care Quality Commission (CQC) chief inspector Professor...
Resist Academies & Free Schools – urge the NUT and the NASUWT
THE NASUWT and NUT teachers’ unions’ annual conferences at the weekend voted to resist the spread of academies and free schools. Both conferences carried votes...
GPs demand 15 minutes per patient!
GPs DEMAND a minimum of fifteen minutes to spend with each patient, rather than the current ten, which they rightly say is not enough...
Eu Jackboot Over Greece
THE Greek government of Prime Minister Yiorghos Papandreou won the confidence vote in the Vouli (Greek parliament) with a margin of just three last...
Manchester fire service massacre! – 6 stations, 100 staff, 9 engines
‘THE SAFETY of firefighters and our communities is the Fire Brigade Union’s greatest concern,’ Gary Keary, FBU Brigade Secretary for Greater Manchester, said yesterday,...
Tories Selling Off NHS Land!
LABOUR has accused the May government of a ‘blanket sell-off’ of NHS land to raise billions to try to plug the hole in savagely...
May Survives No Confidence Vote
PRIME Minister May survived a no confidence vote by 325 to 306 votes after a vitriolic attack on the opposition parties especially the Labour...
FBU strike ballot on pensions
The Fire Brigades Union says the government’s pension proposals are ‘unacceptable’ and are consulting fire crews with a recommendation there is a rapid move...
Ukraine to halt aid convoy
UKRAINE''S coupist regime says it will stop a 280-truck Russian aid convoy containing 2,000 tons of goods including baby food and sleeping bags from...
‘NO SPARE CAPACITY IN HOSPITALS’ warns BMA
PATIENTS are suffering as pressure on the NHS reaches a historic high, the BMA warned yesterday. Tthe publication of NHS England’s ‘winter health check’...
Hunt ‘assumed powers’ he never had
TORY health secretary Jeremy Hunt’s decision to forcibly impose the new contract on the junior doctors was wrong because he does not have the...
Campaign saved lives!
‘THIS CAMPAIGN is a life saver!’ Devinder Bhambra told News Line on the mass picket of Ealing Hospital yesterday morning to celebrate the news...