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TRANSPORT and General Workers Union full-time officer Oliver Richardson told locked out Gate Gourmet workers yesterday that they would continue to receive hardship payments...

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...

The Unite trade union yesterday carried out its obligation to the capitalist court and at noon ended the occupation of the Visteon factory in...

Scores of Iraqis were at the High Court in London yesterday demanding an Independent Public Inquiry into allegations that British interrogators abused, killed and...

Sacked Visteon workers from Enfield, north London, and Belfast were picketing Ford showrooms yesterday on the eve of today’s talks with management. Meanwhile, on...

‘I THINK we are dealing with a mafia not a police organisation,’ alleged the cousin of murdered Brazilian man Jean Charles de Menezes yesterday. Alex...

Greek public sector workers on short contracts staged a successful 24-hour national strike last Thursday demanding permanent jobs and full labour rights. Their struggle was...

At least thirty people were killed as President Musharraf yesterday called out the army to restore order in the cities as violent protests spread...

THE case against the Chagos islanders was adjourned for 14 days on Wednesday. They are being prosecuted for their campaign in Crawley for their right...

Three RAF servicemen were killed on Thursday in one of the daily mortar attacks on their base in Basra, southern Iraq, spokesman Major Matthew...

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...

NUT members at Bilborough College, Nottingham went on strike yesterday against compulsory redundancies, downgrading of teachers’ jobs and workload, with a picket from 7.45am...

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...

UKIP has its second elected MP at Westminster after Mark Reckless won the Rochester and Strood by-election yesterday. Reckless took 16,867 votes, 2,920 more than...

TORY Home Secretary May’s plans to ban democratic rights, that she proposed to the Tory party conference yesterday, was condemned as ‘worthy of a...

‘WE stand in solidarity with our brothers and sisters at Unite who are fighting for a fair contract at British Airways,’ says the Teamsters...

HUNDREDS of electricians blockaded Oxford Street in central London yesterday morning, against the major attack by a ‘cartel’ of contractors who have declared they...

ANGRY busworkers, members of the RMT, yesterday demonstrated outside London United’s Hounslow bus garage, as part of their fight for trade union recognition. Since joining...

Hundreds of angry steelworkers and their families demonstrated outside the Corus steel plant in Redcar on Teesside yesterday, as the GMB and Community unions...

CWU postal workers and their families are marching through Bletchley, Milton Keynes on Saturday, against the planned closure of the Mail Centre. Paul Moffat,...

At least one person was killed and sixty others were wounded yesterday when over 1,000 angry Iraqis clashed with police in Samawa, south of...

‘WE WILL return to the Chagos Islands – it’s our right!’, ‘We will return to Diego Garcia – it’s our right!’ shouted more than...

‘NOW that Eric Born (managing director Gate Gourmet UK and Ireland) has admitted that only 137 have signed the Compromise Agreement, it shows that...

The GMB trade union yesterday accused Stansted security contractor Airfield Services of Gate Gourmet tactics. It said that Airfield Services was showing gross irresponsibility in...

Northern Foods has won the British Airways contract to supply meals and sandwiches for short-haul flights from Heathrow airport, replacing Gate Gourmet. Northern, the food...

A survey of East Sussex GPs has found that more than 70 per cent of them fear patient care will suffer when changes to...

Five Iraqis were arrested yesterday after a massive pre-dawn assault on the city of Basra by a force of more than 1,000 UK and...

US President Barack Obama announced on Saturday that, despite deciding as ‘Commander-in-Chief’ to take military action against Syria, he will seek congressional support for...

Greek workers, youth and students in their thousands demonstrated in every city on May Day celebrating historic past struggles and showing their determination to...

Police are to investigate whether an MI5 officer was complicit in the torture of ex-Guantanamo detainee Binyam Mohamed, it was announced yesterday. The Attorney General,...

ISRAEL has ruled out peace and even an interim accord with the Palestinian leadership and the Palestinian people, kicking the ‘peace process’...

THE locked out Gate Gourmet workers held their mass picket of the TGWU regional office in Hillingdon yesterday, marking the deadline for signing the...

Thousands of Jobcentre Plus (JCP) call centre staff will strike on April 18 after bosses refused to improve working conditions and customer service, the...

‘TONY Blair’s responsible for Gordon’s death,’ said Rose Gentle as the inquest opened yesterday into the June 2004 death in Iraq of her son,...

‘I feel a terrible injustice has been done to me and my family’, Irene Stanley, the widow of Harry Stanley told News Line yesterday. She...

The Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) is lobbying the Unite head office in Holborn, central London, at 11.30 this morning to demand it stops its...

Prime Minister Blair yesterday announced the government’s intention to introduce new laws against ‘incitement and the instigation of terrorism’, for which he had the...

THE Visteon car parts plant, in Enfield, once owned by Ford, is still occupied by over 100 workers who are defending their jobs and...

THE TORY government is drawing up plans for new anti-union laws to ‘break the stranglehold of the trade unions’, The Sunday Telegraph newspaper disclosed...

ON DAY 13 of the daily picket of Chase Farm Hospital, which has been called to prepare for occupation to stop its closure,...

The Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) Postal Executive has put forward an emergency motion for possible strike action by Mail Centre members for debate at...

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...

DOCKWORKERS of the two main Greek ports of Piraeus and Thessaloniki have completed one month of strike action against privatisation and consequent dramatic change...

Lawyers yesterday revealed shocking allegations about the behaviour of British troops in Iraq. Martyn Day, senior partner at law firm Leigh Day & Co, and Phil Shiner of Public...

UP TO 10,000 workers and youth supported the TUC lobby of Parliament yesterday. Many told News Line that they want trade union action to put...