‘WE WANT OUR JOBS BACK’ say Gate Gourmet workers
Locked out Gate Gourmet workers insisted to News Line yesterday they want their jobs back. On the picket line at Heathrow Airport Jarnail, said: ‘I...
SHOOT-TO-KILL POLICY STAYS And more innocents may die says Commissionair Blair
‘I feel unsafe,’ Alex Alves Pereira, the cousin of the unarmed Brazilian, Jean Charles de Menezes, killed by the Met police, told News Line...
‘SIMPLY NOT ENOUGH!’ – Nurses reject Brown’s 2% pay offer
Angry nurses are ready to refuse to do unpaid overtime if they don’t get a pay rise of at least three per cent, the...
Ealing Anger At Strike Sellout!
EALING Parking Service workers are angry at the way in which their strike has been sold out. Unite Branch Secretary Harjinder Nagi told News Line...
THE NHS IS IN DANGER! – warns BMA Council Chair Nagpaul
THE NHS is in danger of being overwhelmed by a surge of both Covid-19 and non-Covid cases, a new British Medical Association (BMA) survey...
‘Where were the bells-tolls for Grenfell?’
THE Coordinator of Justice 4 Grenfell Yvette Williams demanded yesterday, ‘Where were the bell-tolls for Grenfell?’ She contrased the bell tolls and the rush of...
Nursing Staff Are Quitting NHS Pensions To Make Ends Meet!
NURSING staff are quitting their NHS pensions to make ends meet as the cost-of-living crisis bites. The number of staff opting out of the NHS...
BA Effectively Sacks 42,000!
UNITE yesterday welcomed a Scottish parliament motion lodged by Neil Findlay MSP drawing attention to the crisis facing BA workers. The company has served BA...
BA Steward Sacked!
British Airways (BA) yesterday sacked Mark Fisher, one of the three Transport and General Workers Union shop stewards disciplined for organising an unofficial strike...
SACK HUNT! –80,000 sign petition for action
A PETITION to remove Tory Health Secretary Hunt from his post is already heading towards the 100,000 mark. Some 80,000 people have signed a petition...
‘Imposing Pay Deal The Last Straw!’
TODAY at the CWU conference postal section, an emergency motion for strike action will be presented. This motion comes after the imposition of the wage...
100 TORY MPs READY TO REBEL
THE TORY civil war is continuing with reports yesterday that as many as 100 Tory MPs are preparing to rebel against PM...
Straw Rejects Ban On Rendition!
THE government has rejected demands for new laws against ‘extraordinary rendition’: the practice of kidnapping and flying detainees to secret sites around the world,...
Strike Rocks Bbc!
Thousands of journalists across the BBC walked out at midnight Thursday in the first of two 48-hour strikes in protest at plans to devalue...
Replacement workers were brought into Gate Gourmet transport department
GATE Gourmet managers yesterday continued to present their witness statements on the third day of the sacked Gate Gourmet workers employment tribunal in...
Unions Go For One-Day General Strike!
THE PCS trade union is having a consultative ballot asking members to back its ‘We all need a pay rise campaign.’ This calls for a...
Hunt pledges sanctions against benefit claimants
‘A CONSERVATIVE government believes those who can work should work, so sanctions will be applied more rigorously to those who fail to meet strict...
‘Give Venezuela back its gold!’
‘BANK of England you’ve been told – Give Venezuela back its gold’ chanted a 60-strong picket line outside the bank yesterday lunchtime....
3 MPs–CRIMINAL CHARGES!
THREE Labour MPs and one Tory peer will face criminal charges over their expenses, Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Keir Starmer announced yesterday. MPs Elliot...
Opposition leaders meeting to stop Brexit breaks up! – Javid insists on 31st...
LABOUR moved a step closer to forming a national government yesterday with the Scottish and Welsh nationalists, the Liberal Democrats and the Greens all...
Corbyn Attacks ‘No Deal’ Brexit At Tuc Conference!
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn made a ‘project fear’ speech at the TUC in Brighton yesterday, in which he described a No-Deal Brexit as a...
89 Prison Suicides In 2015
EIGHTY-NINE people took their own lives in prisons during 2015 as the suicide rate behind bars remained at an alarmingly high level, figures...
Corbyn, McDonnell on their knees
LABOUR leaders Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell yesterday delivered abject apologies for the party’s defeat in last Thursday’s election, which saw them lose 59...
‘Death Of Patient Confidentiality’
Healthcare privateers and drug companies are to be given access to patients’ records and other NHS data under plans to be unveiled by prime...
Cameron Slapdown Over Syria!
‘WE recommend that the government does not bring to the House a motion seeking the extension of British military action to Syria,’ the Foreign...
‘FIGHT FOR JOBS!’ – London Met delegate tells Congress
THE TUC Congress in Liverpool was brought alive yesterday by a passionate call to fight for jobs with occupations by Mark Campbell of the...
Union Leaders Warn King
BANK of England Governor King’s insistence that nothing must be done to prevent the squeeze in living standards down to 1920s levels, has...
Grenfell – survivors and firefighters under attack
‘WE HAVE been appalled about the way in which the numbers of those who have died have been publicised all the way along,’ Yvette...
70% of medical students can’t afford necessities!
SEVEN out of 10 medical students cannot afford basic necessities, finds a BMA survey. An annual BMA poll found over two-thirds (70%) of 639 surveyed...
Strike-Breaking Regulations Ruled Illegal By High Court
MICK Whelan, general secretary of ASLEF, the train drivers’ union has spoken out after the Tory government suffered a major defeat in the High...
‘2 sisters’ sacked workers picket M&S
FIFTY-NINE sacked workers from the 2 Sisters poultry processing factory in Birmingham travelled to London yesterday, determined to win their jobs back. They demonstrated outside...
Israel bombs Jenin refugee camp!
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) launched a massive land and air attack on the West Bank city of Jenin yesterday, killing at least eight youths...
TOYOTA 10% WAGE CUT – praised by Unite trade union
Car manufacturer Toyota yesterday announced that production at its UK plants would be cut by ten per cent, with an associated cut in wages...
RCN calls 48-hour national strike
THE ROYAL College of Nursing (RCN) has announced a round-the-clock 48-hour strike from 8pm on Sunday 30th April to 8pm on Tuesday 2nd May,...
SAFETY RULES BROKEN says RMT leader Bob Crow
‘There was chaos on the Underground this morning,’ rail union RMT general secretary Bob Crow said yesterday. Commenting on the 24-hour strike by 4,000 RMT...
Smash The Health Bill!
‘HEALTH unions must now do what their members want and organise industrial action to defeat this bill,’ leading BMA member Anna Athow demanded yesterday. She...
Low interest rates spark new global economic crisis
LOW interests rates ‘risk sparking a new crisis’ across Europe, the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) warned in its annual report released yesterday. The BIS...
University Of Arts London Occupied!
STUDENTS at University of Arts London (UAL) are in indefinite occupation of London College of Communications (LCC) in Southwark to oppose Elephant & Castle...
‘We will not be intimidated’ –2,000 students march against police violence
A MASS of students over 2,000 strong rallied outside the University of London Students Union (ULU) on Wednesday, to protest the arrest of 41...
‘It’s Time To Dismantle The System!’ Tate Strikers Told
‘CORONAVIRUS is no reason to fire us!’ shouted over 150 strikers rallying outside the Tate Modern Gallery on Bankside yesterday afternoon. The strikers were marking...
ROYAL MAIL £50m OFCOM FINE!
COMMUNICATION Workers Union (CWU) deputy general postal secretary, Terry Pullinger, has reminded the communications industry regulator that its primary statutory duty is ‘to protect...
Coffey Tells Nurses 3% Is All You Are Getting!
THE RCN (Royal College of Nursing) responded with fury to Tory Health Secretary Therese Coffey’s declaration on TV yesterday morning that, regardless of whether...
87,000 More Jobs To Go – Gmb
The GMB union’s up to date list shows that a total of 87,374 posts are being made redundant at 107 councils across Britain. In...
Killing Continues Minutes After Ceasefire!
Israeli forces targeted a home in Gaza City early Monday, killing a young girl and injuring dozens of Palestinians just minutes after a humanitarian...
Greek anger over EU diktat
Greek workers and youth are infuriated with the leaked German government document which proposes that an EU ‘Budget Commissioner’ should be installed in Greece...