‘I WILL BE SEEKING A BALLOT FOR MORE STRIKE ACTION’ says UNISON NHS Logistics...
‘I will be seeking a fresh ballot for more strike action,’ NHS Logistics UNISON Maidstone assistant branch secretary Dean Lane told News Line yesterday. ‘Personally,...
Labour backbenchers mount a rebellion to release documents!
MPs are attempting to force the release of documents relating to Lord Mandelson’s appointment as UK ambassador to the United States after a Commons...
Six Palestinians killed overnight in Israeli drone strikes
AT LEAST six Palestinians were killed overnight into Friday in Israeli drone strikes on police posts in central and southern Gaza, as Israel continued...
‘CHARGE THOSE RESPONSIBLE WITH MURDER’ – demands Phil Shiner
THE lawyers acting for Colonel Mousa, Baha Mousa’s father, today responded to the latest evidence given by ex-soldier Donald Payne in the Baha Mousa...
Itv Strike Ballot!
ITV staff are to ballot for strike action over pay. BECTU said: ‘Union officials at ITV have rejected the company’s latest pay offer for 2015...
Greek Teachers Strike Continues
THE indefinite strike of Greek state nursery and primary school teachers, who are demanding higher salaries, is continuing. The leader of their umbrella organisation,...
‘The Big Squeeze Is On 9 Million Households’
‘THE squeeze is on for nine million households’, says consumer organisation Which? The latest Which? Quarterly Consumer Report reveals that 1.5 million more families are...
Tory war on teachers and their unions
THE TORY government issued details about how it intends to use its Minimum Service Levels (MSL) anti-strike laws to wage war against education workers...
Inquiry into sub-postmasters scandal opens
‘I WANT someone tried and jailed like I was, then I am settled,’ Harjinder Butoy, who ran the Post Office in the Nottinghamshire market...
‘GET DIRTY AMBULANCES OFF THE ROAD!’ – demands UNISON trade union
UNISON, the major UK health union, yesterday blamed the government for the crisis over dirty ambulances and issued a call ‘for urgent action to...
‘Bully’ Brown Puts Targets Before Healthcare
THE BMA yesterday condemned the Brown government for putting the drive to reach its political targets before patient healthcare. ‘We are being bullied so...
Coalition Cuts Target Disabled
‘DISABLED people are getting into debt to pay for essentials. What’s the government’s response? It is cutting the very financial lifeline designed to help...
Mass Sackings For NHS!
LABOUR and the RCN have reacted angrily to instruction from NHS bosses and regulators to impose a ‘headcount reduction’ to reduce their deficits...
Obama’s last-minute talks – US on the brink
WITH Congress adjourned for the weekend, US President Obama was holding last-minute talks with Republican and Democratic leaders at the White House yesterday evening...
Derby schools 25% pay cut
UNISON is accusing Derby City Council of inflaming tensions and escalating a dispute with school support staff who have seen their pay slashed by...
‘68 is too late’ – decides TUC Congress
TUC DELEGATES yesterday voted unanimously to defend the Welfare State, pensions, and state education. They voted for Composite Motion 8: The Welfare State...
National action launched to end ‘fire and rehire’ – while Unite suspends RATP...
THE UNITE union yesterday launched a nationwide campaign to ‘end the growing practice of fire and rehire’ through a programme of strike action alongside...
Stoke Postal Workers Won’t Cross Picket Lines
Stoke-on-Trent Mail Centre delivery staff walked out on unofficial strike for the third time yesterday after being ordered by management to cross their processing...
BROWN – ‘We’re going to change the way we govern’
Prime Minister Brown, flanked by Chancellor Darling, told a press conference yesterday that, ‘the changes I have announced in the cabinet and in the...
End 15 Minute Care Disgrace
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...
LIBYAN DIPLOMATS EXPELLED – by terrorist government that’s bombing Tripoli
THE British government took petty revenge after its client ‘revolutionaries’ were driven out of Ras Lanuf and Bin Jawad by the Libyan armed forces...
Welfare and spending cuts are leading to more food banks!
THE expansion of food banks across the United Kingdom is associated with cuts in spending on local services, welfare benefits and higher unemployment rates,...
‘Bring PFI into public ownership’ – BMA conference decides
DOCTORS at the BMA conference yesterday voted for Motion 269, which stated: ‘That this meeting requests government, in view of new-found enthusiasm...
PM JOHNSON DUMPS PLAN B! – in a desperate attempt to remain PM
AFTER A DAY of plots, counter plots and demands that he go, PM Johnson, in his lunchtime statement to the House of Commons, attempted...
BA Cabin Crew Want Indefinite Strike Action!
‘I WANT an immediate ballot and indefinite strike action now. Let’s see them cope with that! I don’t want to wait until Christmas’, a...
COALITION RAIL DISASTER – RMT condemns Command Paper
THE RMT yesterday warned that ministers are preparing to wind back the clock to the days of the Hatfield and Potters Bar disasters and...
Unions Win Round One Of ‘Night Tube War’
THE trade unions have won round one of the Night Tube war. London Underground announced yesterday that the launch date of London’s Night Tube is...
Big Support For Chase Farm Occupation
THE North East London Council of Action organised a mass picket of Chase Farm Hospital yesterday to stop the closure of Maternity, Paediatrics and...
The Israeli Regime Has Escalated Its Genocide!
THE ISRAELI regime escalated its genocide in and around Khan Younis, the most densely populated area of the Gaza Strip, yesterday. Palestinian casualties mounted, bringing...
NHS STRIKE IN IRELAND! –while fury in England over NHS sell-out
AMBULANCE workers and other NHS staff are ‘determined’ and ‘out solid’ throughout Northern Ireland, the GMB regional officer, Michael Mulholland, said yesterday, during...
Israel Admits Sinking Lebanese Refugee Ship
ISRAEL has officially admitted that its military ordered a deadly attack on a Lebanese ship carrying refugees during the regime’s invasion of the country...
V&A strikers determined ‘We won’t accept low pay!’
A RALLY of over 100 Victoria and Albert Museum workers was held in Exhibition Road in South Kensington at 8am yesterday morning, ahead of...
NO LIFTING OF LOCKDOWN! – until Covid infections fall to less than 1,000 a...
TORY PM Johnson must wait until there are fewer than 1,000 Covid infections a day before lifting lockdown, NHS bosses and scientists have warned. The...
MASS PICKET – a huge success say Gate Gourmet locked-out workers
AROUND 150 locked-out Gate Gourmet workers and their supporters – including members of the PCS, CWU, UNISON and Amicus trade unions – staged a...
Dozens Injured By Israeli Forces
DOZENS of Palestinians were injured in violent clashes across al-Tur and al-Issawiya neighbourhoods in occupied East Jerusalem on Saturday as Palestinians protested the death...
BANKS FACE WIPEOUT! – Labour hints at state takeover
The first banks to get money under the UK government’s £500bn bank rescue plan are expected to do so this morning. Over the weekend, the...
‘GP collapse’ in North of Ireland! – put the Tories out on June 8th...
GENERAL Practice in the North of Ireland is close to collapse with the General Practitioners Committee (GPC) seeking to collect enough undated resignations to...
‘NHS IN DANGER’ – Buckman rejects ‘Hunt rubbish’
THE Chair of the BMA’s GP committee, Dr Laurence Buckman, told the Conference of Local Medical Committees yesterday: ‘A signal has been passed at...
‘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...
‘WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED!’ – declare 4,000 Newham marchers
MORE than 4,000 people joined an angry demonstration through Newham yesterday against the huge police raid in Forest Gate on June 7. As they made...
Defend the NHS!NHS – Foundation Trusts call to lift cap on private patient numbers
Public sector union Unison yesterday sounded the alarm bells over a move from NHS foundation trust bosses to lift the cap on the...
‘Murderous Nato Are Child Killers’
WRP general secretary Frank Sweeney yesterday condemned the ‘attempt of the NATO gangsters to murder the Libyan leadership headed by Colonel Gadaffi.’ He called them...
THE AMERICANS HAVE FLED! – reports Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi
‘THE AMERICANS fled,’ a senior Iranian military adviser reported yesterday, and have withdrawn more than 1,000 kilometres from Iran’s borders. Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi, a...
Construction workers submit 10% pay claim
TRADE UNIONS led by Unite, have submitted a pay claim to the Construction Industry Joint Council (CIJC) seeking a 10 per cent pay increase in...