‘PAY US WHAT WE ARE OWED’ – say Whipps Cross strikers
Nearly 300 porters, cleaners and switchboard staff employed by Rentokil Initial at Whipps Cross Hospital in East London began another three days of strike...
Lecturers Fight Long Hours And Privatisation
The University and College Union (UCU) announced yesterday that its members at the University of West England (UWE), Bristol, will be balloted for strike...
Workers still paying for 2008 crash says GMB
‘SINCE the great crash of 2007/8 the twin features of inflation of 27% and little or no pay rises have taken a heavy toll...
RCN Opposes Health Bill
THE UK government has ignored a catalogue of warnings about the nursing workforce crisis since 2016, a new report from the Royal College of...
GRENFELL CRISIS – 88 claimants refuse to negotiate with council until it admits liability
THE HIGH Court has ruled that the 1,000 claims against The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) and its tenant management organisation (TMO)...
SECOND MINISTER QUITS – Another considering his position
A SECOND Foreign Office Minister, Mark Simmonds, has resigned from the government, 10 Downing Street said yesterday. His resignation follows that of Foreign Office Minister...
Greek Finance Ministry occupied
WORKERS at the Greek Finance Ministry early on Tuesday morning occupied the Finance Ministry building in central Athens. They are protesting against huge wage cuts...
‘IF THERE IS NO LEGISLATION ON MONDAY – SEIZE SHIPS ON TUESDAY’ – John...
OVER 500 trade unionists gathered outside the RMT headquarters on the waterfront in Dover, yesterday with red RMT flags and union banners after 800...
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...
Strike Wave Mounts As Colonel Is Killed
According to the Greek police, a powerful ‘parcel bomb’ exploded at 8.20pm on Thursday on the seventh floor of the Greek Ministry for the...
Lecturers more resolute than ever
STUDENTS and other supporters at the University of Sheffield rallied outside Firth Court yesterday and welcomed Chris Townsend, representing the three-day-old student occupation of...
Don’t sign the rotten ‘compromise’ deal
Locked out Gate Gourmet workers are angry that TGWU officers are putting pressure on those who have been selected by the company for compulsory...
NO CONFIDENCE IN MELDRUM! – London BMA demands huge campaign to smash Health Bill
BMA chairman Dr Hamish Meldrum has been rocked by a ‘no confidence’ vote at last week’s meeting of the London Region of the BMA. ...
Junior doctors strike is on!
JUNIOR doctors will strike next Tuesday after talks with the government broke down at 4.45pm yesterday afternoon. The BMA said in a statement: ‘Junior doctors...
Occupy Chase Farm!
HEALTH chiefs on the Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Clinical Strategy Board, yesterday denied that the decision has already been taken to shut the A&E...
Vote For The 5 Wrp Candidates!
ARJINDER Thiara Workers Revolutionary Party candidate for Ealing Southall was greeted with enormous enthusiasm at Ealing Hospital yesterday. Workers, patients and visitors queued...
Assange At Risk Of Being ‘Tortured To Death’
WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange, who has been held in terrible conditions in Belmarsh Prison, is ‘in a dire state of health due to psychological...
TORTURE NOT OK! Law Lords defend Iraqis’ human rights
BRITISH troops were told to hood Iraqis and use banned ‘stressing’ techniques when interrogating them, human rights lawyer Phil Shiner claimed yesterday at...
ABSOLUTE CHAOS! – doctors training crisis continues
JUNIOR doctors went to the High Court yesterday in a bid to get the online Medical Training Application Service (MTAS) ruled ‘unlawful’, warning...
Blairites Joining Coalition!
Former Labour deputy prime minister John Prescott yesterday furiously lashed out at the queue of Blairite former ministers who are joining the Tory coalition. He...
Support The Firefighters!
Firefighters in south east London confronted Assetco scabs outside Old Kent Road fire station, determined to defeat the strike breakers and the London Fire...
Stop Post Office Wipe-Out!
POST Offices are being wiped out, depriving the public of a vital service, leaders of the Communications Workers’ Union and the National Federation of...
OCCUPY GM! –Fiat takeover threat to plants
‘Vauxhall workers should occupy to defend their jobs’, Belfast Visteon convenor John McGuire told News Line yesterday. He was responding to news that Fiat...
NHS logistics votes overwhelmingly for strike action
UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis yesterday announced that NHS Logistics staff have voted overwhelmingly to take strike action to defend their service from privatisation. Prentis...
‘It’s Time To Fight!’
THE Tory-LibDem Coalition plans to abolish the right of workers to claim unfair dismissal and bring in an employers right to sack workers without...
‘KEEP YOUR PROMISES’ – US unions tell Obama
American trade unions who campaigned for Barack Obama’s landslide election victory, yesterday told the new US president to keep his promises to working families. Service...
Shelter – Job And Wage Cuts!
Over 200 striking Shelter workers demonstrated outside the housing charity’s head office in London yesterday. For the first time in Shelter’s 41-year history the workers,...
FAMILIES £40bn IN DEBT! – ‘alarm bells should be ringing’
BRITISH public finances worsened in November, meaning that Tory Chancellor George Osborne will spectacularly fail to hit his budget deficit target for this year...
‘We support LSE occupation!’
OVER 100 defiant occupying students at the University of Arts London (UAL) were joined by students from the LSE occupation and other universities and...
White goods cause 60 fires a week Silent march for Grenfell today in London...
‘THE GOVERNMENT is failing to get unsafe products out of people’s homes as new fire figures reveal that faulty washing machines, tumble dryers...
Angry Lecturers Take Strike Action
‘We are expecting a good turnout on the picket lines at universities and colleges of higher education across the country today,’ lecturers’ union Natfhe...
60% Of Sadr City Dead Are Women And Children
THE Sadr City region of Baghdad is facing a humanitarian catastrophe with tens of thousands of residents cut off from clean water, food and...
‘Hospitals a thing of the past’ – vicious Tory attack on NHS
HOSPITALS as we know them will become a thing of the past ‘over the course of the next decade’, with patients being treated...
Teenage Suspect Charged
A seventeen-year-old boy arrested by police in connection with an alleged plot to blow up airliners has made a second appearance in court. The...
BUNCEFIELD INQUIRY – prohibition notices served on oil companies
THE Health and Safety Commission (HSC) yesterday announced the official inquiry into the Buncefield oil depot fire. HSC chairman Bill Callaghan told a press conference...
‘People are supporting our demand to reopen all closed NHS services!’
‘PEOPLE are really supporting our cause to reopen all the closed services at Ealing Hospital,’ Ealing Southall WRP general election candidate Hassan Zulkifal said...
Chase Farm Hospital Demonstration
Saturday 2nd February 2013
‘Give It Back’ Huge Support For Strike To Restore 10% Pay Cut
IN the first test of public opinion since British Airways check-in staff announced that they will take strike action to have their pay restored...
Trade Unions Condemn The Great Pensions Robbery!
‘The money is not going to any pension scheme, it is going to the Treasury. This increase isn’t about making the NHS pension sustainable...
Crabb–new disabled cuts
NEW Tory Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb used his first major speech yesterday to state that he believes the employment rate for...
STOP GM PLANTS CLOSING! – workers must occupy!
General Motors-owned Vauxhall Ellesmere Port and GM Luton have admitted their future depends on the US government bailing out their parent company. During discussions...
Firefighters Deaths Rise
Firefighters from every station in Hertfordshire are joining a national rally and lobby of Parliament in Westminster on Wednesday, 12 November. They are urging politicians...
Hunt ‘misrepresented’ weekend deaths
FIONA GODLEE, editor of The BMJ, has written to Health Secretary Hunt, accusing him of misrepresenting an academic article on deaths of patients admitted...
‘Thousands will back tanker drivers!’
PEOPLE'S fuel lobby leader Andrew Spence yesterday said: ‘Thousands will back a Unite tanker driver members strike’. He told News Line: ‘It’s not just truck...
Tories step up war on poor
THE TORY government has launched an all-out assault on the poorest and most vulnerable sections of society, slashing disabled people’s money, cutting child tax...