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GPs in Harrow are up in arms against plans to close down health centres and combine GP practices into large units, turning them...

CWU members working in Royal Mail are facing the greatest threats to their jobs and conditions in the entire history of the postal service. With...

All along the A40, road hauliers and truckers, parked up their big machines and made their way to Marble Arch to warn Gordon...

Plans to bring one of the world’s most advanced health scanners to Edinburgh risk creating a two-tier NHS, senior health economist, Professor Allyson Pollock,...

The Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) Postal Executive has put forward an emergency motion for possible strike action by Mail Centre members for debate at...

‘My personal view is the unions should be up in arms over the number of beds lost in the NHS,’ East Surrey UNISON official...

PILOT’S union BALPA told News Line yesterday it will be campaigning to change European law after withdrawing from its High Court challenge to a...

SOUTH-EAST London Council of Action joined with local residents to stop the eviction of young people from homes on the Heygate Estate in Elephant...

Unemployment is set to increase sharply this year, economists have warned, after a Bank of England report showed more firms were looking to axe...

Delegates at this year’s Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) national conference yesterday voted overwhelmingly for a strike ballot of 280,000 members working across...

‘WE ARE calling on everyone to march with us through Enfield on Saturday, July 26th. Workers of Enfield won’t allow this government to close...

THE moment of truth is fast approaching for action to be taken to stop the closure of Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield, north...

A number of Labour MPs have tabled an amendment to the government’s Counter-Terrorism Bill in a bid to block plans to extend pre-charge detention...

OVER a hundred Chagossians attended the annual general meeting of the Chagos Islands Community Association in Crawley last Saturday afternoon and early evening. They re-affirmed...

BALPA (the British Airline Pilots Association) is going to the High Court in London on Monday to fight a British Airways (BA’s) strike ban. BALPA...

President Sarkozy threw down the gauntlet to the teaching unions immediately after the hugely successful national strike and demonstrations on Thursday. He shocked union...

The CWU postal workers union yesterday slammed a call from government appointed regulator Postcomm to privatise Royal Mail. CWU general secretary Billy Hayes said: ‘This...

Liberty Director Shami Chakrabarti and Public Interest Lawyers solicitor Phil Shiner yesterday welcomed an announcement by the Secretary of State for Defence of an...

Prime minister Brown signalled more attacks on workers, the sick, unemployed and disabled people in his speech to MPs yesterday, outlining the government’s draft...

the Brown government’s health insurance and ‘age-tax’ plans announced on Monday were condemned as privatisation and ‘a punishment for growing old’ yesterday. ‘Health insurance means...

Speaking yesterday to charities, NHS workers, trade unions and local government leaders, prime minister Brown announced the publication of a consultation document on ‘options...

Eight out of ten doctors believe healthcare services for older people are not good enough, according to a British Medical Association (BMA) survey...

LEADING people at the centre of the three Blair governments have published their memoirs for big cash payments, knowing full well that...

On the 60th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe) last Thursday, agriculture minister Dr Mohammed Al-Agha strongly criticised international institutions for not...

THE government yesterday sought to head off an eruption of demonstrations and occupations against the closure of wards, A&Es, and maternity, children’s and...

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith yesterday announced a new state crackdown on working class youth and their parents. She said announcing ‘Operation Leopard’: ‘It’s exactly the...

The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday announced a national ‘Support your Surgery’ campaign to defend and promote NHS GP services in England. The BMA warned:...

Two million UK workers are ‘trapped in a continual round of low-paid and insecure work where mistreatment is the norm’ according to the findings...

THE Sadr City region of Baghdad is facing a humanitarian catastrophe with tens of thousands of residents cut off from clean water, food and...

UNRWA, the United Nations’ agency for Palestinian refugees, yesterday evening suspended its operations in the Gaza Strip citing a shortage of fuel. The suspension means...

Border and Immigration Agency mass raids to round up alleged illegal immigrants were yesterday condemned as a publicity-seeking ‘cynical approach by government’ by GMB...

More than 90 per cent of final year midwifery students are struggling to find a job, a new survey published today by the Royal...

UK agencies yesterday called on members of the Mid-East Quartet meeting in London (the US, EU, Russia and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon) to put...

Four thousand workers and youth marched for socialism through central London on May Day yesterday. Led by the May Day Organising Committee banner there were...

VACANCY freezes and fears of redundancy and downgrading are continuing to plague the NHS as it heads for a £1.8bn surplus, a Royal College...

HAULIERS hit by record fuel prices and taxes converged on Westminster in their lorries on Tuesday, to demand an immediate rebate to save them...

MAY DAY MANIFESTO By the News Line Editorial Board THE NEWS LINE editorial Board sends its May Day greetings for the year 2008 to the workers...

‘I think, good on the striking workers at Grangemouth,’ said Simon Gough, from A E Gough and Sons in mid-Wales, as more than 100...

Workers on the second day of their two-day strike over pensions at the giant Grangemouth oil refinery in Scotland yesterday remained defiant and determined...

The 1,200 striking workers at the Grangemouth oil refinery yesterday made it clear they are determined to defend their pensions. Unite members walked out of...

Angry delegates at the British Medical Association (BMA) Junior Doctors Conference in central London on Saturday voted for action to restore free accommodation for...

Sunday’s two-day strike by 1,200 workers at Grangemouth oil refinery will go ahead, said Unite joint general secretary Tony Woodley yesterday. Speaking before addressing a...

OVER 20,000 striking teachers, college lecturers and civil servants from every London borough marched through the centre of the capital yesterday, with marches and...

Hayes and Harlington Labour MP John McDonnell yesterday called for the 10p tax rate to be restored in full. He was speaking after Prime Minister...

‘The abolition of the 10p tax rate has dealt a body blow to millions of low paid workers,’ UNISON General Secretary, Dave Prentis said...