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‘DEFEAT this Tory onslaught by calling national strike action,’ Chigwell Aslef Chairman Bill Rogers said yesterday in response to the Tory government’s threat to...

JAPAN, France, and the United States are reportedly set to hold joint military drills for the first time in May next year, as part...

The Serco-led public-private partnership which runs London’s St Thomas’ and Kings College hospitals’ path labs, GSTS Pathology, has run into trouble having made a...

Defence secretary Des Browne yesterday said he takes ‘full responsibility’ for decisions which allowed the fifteen UK sailors and marines held by the Iranians...

JUNIOR doctors across Wales began a three day strike over pay yesterday and continue until tomorrow, after almost every junior doctor (98%) who took...

ANY attempt to use a new ‘Ofsted-style’ hospital inspection regime to justify closure of any South-West London hospital will be ‘vigorously fought,’ leading local...

SCOTLAND Yard is to be investigated over its failure to deal with an allegation of two acts of indecent exposure by a serving police...

THE crisis in primary care was the topic of an open microphone discussion at the LMC GPs conference in York yesterday morning. Speaker after...

THE sacking of nearly 800 staff was announced yesterday at NHS Direct – the NHS helpline created by the Blair government in 1997. The mass...

Resident doctors and their supporters were on the picket line at St Thomas’ hospital on the first day of their five days of strike...

DOCTORS will take strike action in defence of their NHS pension scheme on Thursday June 21st, the BMA confirmed yesterday, following an overwhelming YES...

Staff and students at London Metropolitan University will protest from 4.00pm on Monday in their ongoing fight to save over 550 jobs. Members of the...

AROUND 15,000 junior doctors are about to find themselves without training posts if Modernising Medical Careers (MMC) and the new Medical Training Application Service...

‘The way things are going they are going to wrap everything up – they are covering up everything,’ the cousin of murdered Brazilian Jean...

The Tories are demanding the Cabinet Office state whether or not Culture Minister Tessa Jowell has breached the ministerial code of conduct over her...

Prime minister Cameron has broken the coalition’s pledge to increase funding for the NHS, both Labour and the Institute of Fiscal Studies have warned. Labour’s...

LAMBETH College UCU (University and College Union), resumed their strike action yesterday against the imposition of inferior work contracts, by Lambeth College management. This week’s...

GREEK local government along with college and university administrative workers are continuing with occupations, strikes and demonstrations against the government’s mass sackings plans. On...

‘It’s an astonishing level of support you are giving to the union, you care about the service you are giving to the public, you...

‘WE WERE forced to bury them in a mass grave,’ al-Shifa Hospital Director Mohammad Abu Salmiya reported yesterday as he announced that 179 people,...

The US government is heading for a massive $10 trillion budget deficit over the next decade, analysts warned yesterday after the White House projected...

ISRAEL’s continued assault on Gaza has killed at least 89 Palestinians in the past 24 hours, including 31 people seeking aid, and injured 513...

FIRE Brigades Union reps met yesterday to prepare for a national strike ballot over changes to the firefighters’ pension scheme. The FBU National Conference begins...

PUBLIC SECTOR employees, many of whom are essential Covid-19 workers, should not be subject to a continuing pay freeze from a government that has...

‘WE BELIEVE that the blame for the Russian Il-20 aircraft tragedy lies entirely with the Israeli Air Force,’ Russian Defence Ministry spokesman Major General...

EALING Hospital workers, patients and visitors yesterday called for an occupation by the trade unions to stop the closure of the hospital’s...

IN RESPONSE to the drowning of 27 people in the Channel on Wednesday, Tory Home Secretary Priti Patel yesterday pushed her Nationality and Borders...

THE National Union of Teachers (NUT) annual conference in Brighton yesterday voted unanimously for the scrapping of the Tory ‘Prevent Strategy’. Delegates condemned the government’s...

OVER 50 people picketed a meeting of Lambeth Primary Care Trust (PCT) yesterday, in opposition to the closure of the renowned Emergency Clinic at...

‘MAKE October 1st the start of a general strike,’ said All Trades Unions Alliance (ATUA) National Secretary Dave Wiltshire yesterday, after the ASLEF and...

MEMBERS of the United Steelworkers union working for the British multinational utility company National Grid in the US state of Massachusetts will be flying...

ON THE eve of today’s Budget, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber warned that if the number of Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA) claimants increases...

MORE than two million people in the Gaza Strip are besieged by hunger, thirst, disease and fear and obtaining meals has become an impossible...

ON A DAY when 750,000 public sector workers struck to defend their pensions, 70,000 of them marched through London with banners flying, determined to...

Haringey, Barnet and Enfield Primary Care Trusts agreed yesterday that Option One will be carried out in relation to Chase Farm Hospital – that...

THE News Line Editorial Board sends its May Day greetings to the working class and the youth of the world. This year’s May Day is...

WORKERS erupted in celebrations across the US on the news that Amazon workers forced the tech giant to recognise a trade union in America...

OVER 200 Gambians and supporters marched from Parliament to the Commonwealth Headquarters in Pall Mall calling for the ousting of President Alhaji JJJ Jerehmeh...

‘SIGNIFICANT numbers’ of child refugees must be ‘promptly taken in by the UK and cared for’ a Parliamentary committee has demanded. The UK’s European Union...

Public services often fail to consider the special needs of older people, who are being treated like ‘second class citizens’, Age Concern said yesterday. It...

Sixty health workers including thirty nurses are to lose their jobs at North Devon District Hospital in Barnstaple as the NHS Trust seeks to...

NEW RESEARCH by ActionAid, Public Services International, and Education International warns that the International Monetary Fund’s demands to cut public sector employee costs undermine...

Eight mental health workers and their families, who live in the Chase Farm hospital residences, face eviction. The trust has issued eviction notices for these...

THE GMB union has demanded assurances from the new owners of Asda over the future of over 100,000 workers as the supermarket chain was...