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Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers picketing the company at Heathrow yesterday, despite the bad weather and police threats to arrest them

Police Stop Gg Picket Outside Plant

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GATE Gourmet locked-out workers were stopped from picketing the Gate Gourmet plant yesterday by the Heathrow Airport police and by the British Airports...
Health workers fighting to save Grantham Hospital on the 5,000-strong march through Nottingham last month

GPs to operate in surgeries – Labour continues drive to undermine NHS hospitals

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Government plans to downgrade district general hospitals in favour of care in the community are being pushed forward with the announcement of plans to...

Coulson Crisis Deepens

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Downing Street Director of Communications Andy Coulson is under renewed pressure after it was announced yesterday that MPs will hold an emergency debate in...
Young NHS workers march against Tory government cuts

530 lifesaving cancer operations axed

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HUNDREDS of cancer operations were cancelled during the NHS winter crisis, meaning that for some patients, by the time they are treated, their cancer...

Daily Israeli ceasefire violations!

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HAMAS says that since the ceasefire agreement came into effect last month, Israel ‘has not ceased its daily and continuous’ violations. According to the statement...

ALL OUT ON THE 27th

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AT Gatwick, on Sunday morning, pickets at the South Terminal roundabout got tremendous support from passing motorists, coaches and lorries, and fellow airport workers,...
ESOL lecturers and students presented a 15,000-signature petition to Downing Street yesterday

DEFEND ENGLISH CLASSES! – says UCU and students

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TEACHERS and students from across London went to Downing Street yesterday, to present a mass petition against the attack on the right to learn...
Postal workers marched on Royal Mail head office in July demanding the resignation of Royal Mail chief executive  Adam Crozier

CWU TO LOBBY UNITE – stop managers scabbing!

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The Communication Workers Union (CWU) London Divisional Committee has called a demonstration at the Unite union’s head office in Holborn, central London, on Thursday. The...

‘Reinstatement For All – And No Victimisations’

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TALKS are taking place between Gate Gourmet management and the Transport and General Workers Union today. Locked out Gate Gourmet workers told News Line on...
Greek youth are very angry at the troika and the government’s policies that have created massive unemployment

Greek youth jobless reaches 64.9%

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THE unemployment rate in Greece increased to a record 27.60 per cent in May of 2013, up from 26.90 per cent in April of...

CWU pickets call for a general strike

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‘I’m 100 per cent for a general strike,’ Communication Workers Union (CWU) Capital Branch Assistant Secretary and BT Tower rep Darren Weller said yesterday...

£14,000 per year fast-track degrees!

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‘OUR universities must remain places of learning, not academic sweatshops,’ UCU general secretary, Sally Hunt warned yesterday. She was responding to the Tory plan to...

MACRON OUT! – demands 287,000 workers

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MORE than 287,000 people attended marches and clashed with police across France again on Saturday, wearing yellow vests to oppose tax rises on fuel...

MEDVEDEV WARNS GEORGIA –Insists US is still arming Saakashvili

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RUSSIAN President Dmitry Medvedev warned yesterday that Georgia’s leadership will ‘pay the price’ for its attack on South Ossetia one year ago. He also condemned...

‘WE ARE ALL GOING BACK TOGETHER’ – Gate Gourmet workers vow ‘no compromise’

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THE GATE GOURMET pickets were in a lively mood yesterday, full of determination that they were all going to get their jobs back in...

Sack AfD lecturer demand students

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‘STAFF and students will stand together and we will not stand down until he is gone,’ Jo McNeill from the lecturers union UCU said...

‘Work with whoever is elected’ urges Harman

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LABOUR MPs must ‘work with’ whoever is elected leader later this week, Harriet Harman has said pleading with Labour’s right wing not to split...
London firefighters demonstrating against mass sackings and emphasising that closing fire stations and cutting the service will cost lives

Vauxhall copter crash! – Emergency services save the day

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Two people were killed and 13 injured when a helicopter crashed into a crane on top of a tall building under construction in Vauxhall,...

Mexican forces attack caravan

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CHILDREN went missing yesterday as a US-bound caravan of refugees clashed with Mexican forces under instruction from President Trump to block them from entering...
TUC Congress delegates voting for co-ordinated strike action to defend jobs and pensions on Monday

‘We Will Defeat The Health Bill!’

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DELEGATES passed motion 51 on ‘Southern Cross and the Care Sector’ yesterday morning at the TUC. It called for ‘robust regulation’, ‘all care homes to...

Bring LT cleaners back in-house

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AS THE Omicron crisis grips the capital, Labour politicians yesterday called for public ownership of London Transport cleaning services. The MPs and peers made the...

Rice Visit To Blackburn Cancelled

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Fears of massive anti-war protests forced the cancellation of yesterday’s planned visit to Blackburn by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Rice had planned to...
Determined BA cabin crew on the picket line at Heathrow yesterday

Cabin Crew Determined To Win

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STRIKING British Airways cabin crew made it clear yesterday that they are determined to win their struggle in defence of jobs, wages and conditions,...
Fuel protest convoy arriving in London in the year 2000 – the government is planning to use the army against a tanker drivers strike next month

No Army Strikebreaking!

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Army drivers are being trained as strikebreakers in the event of a national tanker drivers strike which is expected to be called...

FBU oppose firefighter ‘super cops’

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‘WE REMAIN opposed to any attempt to turn firefighters into law enforcement, either in Devon and Somerset, or elsewhere in the country,’ Dave Green,...

Government Is Wasting Money On Free Schools – Say Teachers

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TEACHING unions yesterday condemned the Tory-led coalition government’s free-school policy, as more than half a million families were discovering which primary schools their children...

‘EU let thousands drown in Med’ – Lawyers submission to International Criminal Court

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THE EUROPEAN Union must be hauled before the International Criminal Court (ICC) and prosecuted ‘for crimes against humanity’ after letting ‘thousands of refugees drown...

UK Threatened By Global Shocks – Says Bank Of England Report

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The UK economy is under threat of collapse from ‘global shocks’, and has no real independence and little room for manoeuvre. This subordination of...
RMT rally outside Clapham Common Tube yesterday morning insisted that Glen Hart will be defended against any attempt at victimisation by management

Tube workers rally to defend RMT activist

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AN RMT demonstration outside Clapham Common underground station yesterday called for the dropping of disciplinary charges against RMT member Glen Hart. Speaking to News Line...
Trade unionists marched in their hundreds of thousands to defend the NHS and all public services in London on March 26

Child Heart Op Crisis!

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Opponents of a proposal to end child heart surgery at the Royal Brompton Hospital, west London, expressed their concerns at a public meeting on...
Local NUT members came to support CWU pickets at the Greenford Mail Centre in West London yesterday morning

‘we All Need To Strike Together’

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THE second series of strikes in the national postal dispute commenced yesterday morning, with Mail Centres walking out at the start of three days...

Israel & US starves PLO of funds

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AHMAD Majdalani, of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Executive Committee, has warned that Israel is attempting to destroy the Palestinian Authority through more financial...

UNARMED MAN SHOT IN CHEST – after 300 police raid east London home

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‘They shot an unarmed man who was trying to protect his family at four o-clock in the morning.’ This is how friends of the 23-year-old...

SA miners strike spreads –as murder charges provisionally dropped

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SOUTH AFRICAN prosecutors yesterday ‘provisionally’ dropped murder charges against 270 miners, 34 of whose colleagues were shot dead by police last month. Many of the...

HIGH ALERT IN BASRA! – tensions after tank attack ‘rescue’

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British troops in Iraq were on high alert yesterday for fear of further clashes as tensions continued over the rescue at tank-point of two...

More than 30 Labour MPs oppose Starmer’s assault on benefits – 4.5 million...

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KEIR Starmer and Rachel Reeves are facing the most significant internal revolt since taking office, as more than 30 Labour backbenchers prepare to oppose...

‘This Summer’s Exams Should Be Regraded’ – Nut

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FOLLOWING the GCSE results fiasco, the National Union of Teachers is demanding the regrading of all results. Kevin Courtney, Deputy General Secretary of the NUT,...

‘Seize Passports’ Says Police Chief!

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MET POLICE chief Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe said yesterday that he backs a call to seize the passports from Britons who go abroad to...
Picket line of parents, teachers and pupils at the Alec Reed Academy in Northolt, during their strike over bullying and harassment

‘Resist and you’ll be sacked!’ – anti-academy heads are being told

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EDUCATION Secretary Gove is ‘irrepairably damaging children’s education’ says Dr Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL). Speaking at the...

FBU ‘will Strike Against Wage Cuts’

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AROUND 100 members of the Fire Brigades Union from across London lobbied talks at ACAS yesterday, where FBU leaders warned the employers they would...

The return of the racketeer landlord! – over one million tenants are suffering says...

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NEW research released today has revealed that in the last year alone over a million – or one in eight – private renters across...

Fierce fighting in Jabalia refugee camp

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FIERCE fighting is taking place in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza as Palestinian soldiers battle Israeli troops after they launched another deadly...

UK £120bn banking shortfall!

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THE Bank of England has warned that the biggest banks and building societies operating in Britain face a £120bn shortfall in their finances. In a...

Record top grades for private schools – huge social gap in education

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THE FORMER schools ‘catch-up tsar’, Sir Kevan Collins, says he is worried about the vast gap in in the just announced A-level results between...