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NHS care to be shifted out of OUR hospitals!

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UNDER plans unveiled by the government, NHS care in England will be significantly shifted out of hospitals and into newly proposed ‘neighbourhood health centres’. Prime...
Junior doctors on the march last Saturday – they are furious at the government’s attempt to impose unsafe, unfair contracts

All Out With Junior Doctors

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‘WE NEED other unions who are being attacked by this government to take action,’ BMA junior doctors committee member Aislinn Macklin-Doherty told News...

Uni Strike Suspension Condemned!

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THE SUSPENSION of national strike action across 150 universities by the UCU lecturers union was condemned by a leading London member of the union...
Teachers, pupils and parents taking part in last Friday’s ‘Fair Funding for All Schools’ national mobilsation

Teaching Assistants face sack!

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THE GMB union will consult members in Brighton schools as to what action to take as 51 Teaching Assistant redundancies loom with many facing...
Syrian child, badly burned after a terrorist mortar attack on Damascus

Terrorists shell Ghouta escape routes!

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TERRORISTS based in the Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta have imposed a curfew during humanitarian pauses to prevent civilians from leaving the enclave, the...

‘Liberation of the people from France’s dictatorship’ – welcomed by the Niger trade unions

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THE UNION of Workers’ Trade Unions of Niger (USTN) has condemned the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the West African Monetary...
The YS March for Jobs called for a General Strike to bring down the coalition as it marched through east London on Sunday November 21

FIGHT MASS SACKINGS – 200,000 jobs to go in the next three months

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THE GMB has warned that 200,000 jobs will be cut by councils in England in the next three months. GMB national officer...

UK turning a blind eye to refugees

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THE UK is turning a blind eye to suffering on its doorstep by failing to protect vulnerable refugees, who have been displaced by conflict,...
RMT Southern rail guards and supporters lobbying parliament last November demanding that guards must be kept on the trains

RMT Calls National Protest

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THE RMT will hold a national protest outside Parliament at noon next Wednesday, 26th April, to mark the one year anniversary of RMT industrial...

COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT – the decision to suspend Palestinian aid

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The decision to suspend aid to the UN Palestinian refugee agency by several Western countries is a ‘collective punishment’, UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini said...

No Xmas Wages For 600 Workers

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THE collapse of construction firm Clugston has halted work on Newcastle University’s new £39m extension and £25m sports centre. Clugston, which employs more than 600...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers picketing the TGWU office in Hillingdon yesterday demanding that they get their promised hardship pay. On the right mrs Mundy is forced to struggle into the office on crutches following a knee operation in order to register

Pay Up Hardship Money

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MORE Gate Gourmet locked-out workers went to the Hillingdon Transport and General Workers Union Region One office yesterday to register their claim for February’s...

Blair Loses Torture Appeal

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‘The Court of Appeal yesterday handed down a landmark judgment about the torture and abuse of Iraqi civilians in detention with UK Armed Forces...

Musa Ibrahim Reports From Libyan War Fronts

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MUSA Ibrahim, spokesman for Colonel Gadaffi, gave an interview to the Syria-based Al-Ra’y TV on the evening of September 18. He said: ‘We...
BA cabin crew entering their mass meeting at Kempton Park, yesterday mid-day, where no decision was taken to ballot for strike action

Unite Goes For New Peace Talks With Walsh

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UP to 2,000 British Airways cabin crew attended a BASSA meeting at Kempton Park near Heathrow Airport yesterday, which heard that the leadership of...
A strong and cheerful mass picket at Chase Farm Hospital on Christmas Eve morning – more than ready to occupy the hospital in the event of closure

Trafford A&E closure plan

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THE Trafford strategic programme board has announced its support for closing the A&E at Trafford General Hospital, the hospital from which Nye Bevan launched...
PCS and NASUWT members marching in defence of their pensions on November 30 – they will not accept what they regard as a completely unfair tax

Another Unfair Tax!

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Trade unions yesterday condemned the Cameron government’s just-announced decision to press ahead with increasing the pension contributions of public service workers from April 2012. Teachers...

Jaguar workers–three day week until Xmas!

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JAGUAR workers have been put on a three-day week until Christmas! This affects as many as half of the two thousand workers at its...
Ambulance staff were among the many health workers lobbying MPs to defend public services last month

999 Ambulance Crisis

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‘Paramedics don’t have referral skills. ‘Andy Burnham is not redefining the health service and Patricia Hewitt got her facts wrong last year when she...
Planned STP cuts mean maternity services at Horton Hospital in Banbury are due for closure, endangering mothers’ & babies’ lives

‘Slash, Trash and Privatise!’ STPs put patients’ lives at risk

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‘IT IS CLEAR that patients’ lives are being put at risk, but the solution is not to slash, trash and privatise through the NHS...
Students at Goldsmiths College in New Cross, south London, march to defend the NHS

NHS must remain free! – says RCP

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‘STOP reorganising the NHS, increase NHS funding, and commit to an NHS free at the point of delivery,’ demanded the Royal College of Physicians...

Free Palestine! No war on Iran! – demand 350,000 on London march

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OVER 350,000 workers, students and youth marched through central London from Russell Square to Downing Street on Saturday, in one of the largest demonstrations...

GATE GOURMET TACTICS! – GMB accuses Airfield Services

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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...

BMA & RCN condemn Starmer’s NHS ‘Plan for Change’

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PRIME Minister Starmer delivered a speech in a Surrey hospital yesterday morning describing his proposed transformation of the NHS into a largely digital service,...
LINDSAY COOKE, from ‘Mums4Medics’ making her point outside Portcullis House, Westminster, yesterday

7 Treatment Centres Axed

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Public sector union UNISON yesterday welcomed a government move to scrap six projected private treatment and diagnostic centres. As well, the Department of Health (DoH)...
Pickets outside Chase Farm Hospital yesterday morning

KEEP CHASE FARM OPEN – No to polyclinic, urges picket

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PASSING cars tooted their horns, as campaigners shouted ‘No polyclinics – save our hospitals’ outside Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield yesterday. The north-east London Council...
ROSE GENTLE (centre, right) leading the group from Military Families Against the War to the Cenotaph

Hounslow Unison To March With Gg Locked-Out Workers

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THE Hounslow local government Unison branch banner will be with the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers banner on the TUC May Day march through London...
Protesters in central London demanding the capping of rents and the building of council houses

RENTS OUT OF CONTROL! –families cutting food to pay the rent

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HOUSING charity Shelter yesterday described the rental market as ‘out of control’ as letting group LSL revealed the average rent paid by private tenants...
Palestinian youth prepare to set fire to piles of tyres on yesterday’s massive ‘Great March of Return’ on the Gaza border

Lethal force used against Palestinians

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LETHAL force was used again yesterday against unarmed Palestinians demonstrating on the Gaza border as Israeli forces open fired, killing two Palestinians. Thousands of protesters...
Angry Visteon workers demanding their pensions outside Downing Street yesterday afternoon

‘We want our pensions’ – Visteon workers tell Downing Street

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‘We are grateful to the union for their support today, but we have to say “We are not here for the hell of it”...

‘If you can work you must work’ – Kendall

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‘UNDER this Labour government, if you can work you must work,’ Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall told the House of Commons yesterday. Launching the...

Unite rejects cutting NHS ‘sick notes!’

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GOVERNMENT proposals to force GPs to sign fewer sick notes for workers have been rejected by Doctors in Unite, which represents GPs and doctors...

Shapps makes ‘disgraceful threats’ to rail workers jobs

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TRANSPORT secretary Grant Shapps threatened rail workers’ jobs yesterday by saying: ‘Rail strikes will drive passengers away and threaten rather than protect rail workers’...
Sacked Gate Gourmet workers lobbying the Trades Union Congress earlier this week, demanding reinstatement

Terror Laws Used Against Unions

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TUC Delegates passed Motion Seven on EU Attacks on Trade Union Rights yesterday, which the TUC General Council supported with reservations. The Fire...
A section of the two million-strong demonstration in London on February 15 2003 on the eve of the war against Iraq

Campbell Defends All Of The ‘dodgy Dossier’

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ALASTAIR Campbell yesterday defended ‘every single word’ of the notorious ‘sexed up’ dodgy dossier of September 2002, that was used by a desperate Blair...

BA SUSPENSIONS ‘TEST OF THE UNION’ say Gate Gourmet workers

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THE GATE Gourmet mass picket at Heathrow airport was visited by Transport and General Workers Union General Secretary Tony Woodley and the union’s General...

Royal London Hospital Serco strike!

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WORKERS employed by outsourcing giant Serco, who work in the company’s back-of-house catering department at the Royal London hospital in Whitechapel, will stage a...

PROSECUTE P&O FERRIES – RMT condemns Tories for refusal to act

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SEAFARERS union RMT has written to the Secretary of State for Transport, Grant Shapps, to demand a meeting to discuss the government’s failure to...

African-American farmers lost $326bn worth of acreage in the 20th century

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AFRICAN-American farmers lost roughly $326 billion worth of acreage during the 20th century, adding to the racial wealth gap in the United States, a...
The front of yesterday’s march against the savage cuts to disability benefits by the Tory-LibDem coalition

HANDS OFF THE DISABLED – Coalition warned

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A LIVELY demonstration of over 5,000 disabled people, chanted: ‘Cuts Kill, Kill the Cuts!’ as they marched to Parliament yesterday. At a rally on the...

‘Generalised strike action!’ – urges bakers union leader

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‘THIS anti-union legislation has to be answered by unified, generalised strike action from the entire trade union movement.’ Bakers Union leader Ronnie Draper was responding...

Battle To Save Ward At Ludlow Hospital

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Campaigners angry over plans to axe services at a community hospital in Shropshire will be confronting health officials at a public meeting tomorrow. Residents...

Legal Action Against French Police State Violence

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THE family of a 73-year-old French woman injured in a police charge at a protest are taking legal action. Geneviève Legay fell and hit her...

2,018 babies taken into care

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A HUGE rise has taken place in the number of babies taken by social services from ‘Troubled Families’. Figures compiled by the University of Lancaster...