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‘Student nurses are frustrated, angry and disillusioned because of the difficulties they face finding jobs as deficits bite,’ said UNISON, the UK’s largest health...

THE FBU has revealed that firefighters dealt with more incidents, more fires and saw more fire deaths last year than for most of the...

POSTAL workers from the Greenford Mail Centre, one of the biggest in the country, are coming to the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers’ first...

THE NHS is facing a ‘substantial financial problem’ which politicians are ignoring in the election campaign, its former head, David Nicholson warned yesterday. Warning of...

THE commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has warned of the ‘nightmare’ facing Israel after the Tel Aviv...

‘WE WILL defend our members against any and all attacks,’ Unite General Secretary Sharon Graham declared yesterday, in response to Tory Business Secretary Kwasi...

The UN Security Council has voted unanimously to impose sanctions on Colonel Gadaffi and the Libyan authorities. Security Council members on Saturday night voted for...

‘ONE by one, David Cameron has broken all the promises he made on the NHS. It is now struggling with his toxic medicine of...

LOCAL authorities say Israeli occupation forces have pushed deeper into Gaza City in open violation of the ceasefire, expanding the so-called ‘yellow line’ and...

DRASTIC cuts to the NHS are being planned to meet a budget cut of £15-20 billion, with even bigger spending cuts expected in the...

If Metronet do not guarantee our members’ jobs, wages and conditions, and pensions by Wednesday night, we will name strike dates, said the leaders...

THE RMT national rail strike is back on. A 24-hour strike has been called for Thursday the 4th of June and a 48-hour strike for...

government proposals to cut teacher training to just six months were condemned by unions yesterday as consigning the ‘vision of a world class education...

The government is to inject another £3bn into Northern Rock, Chancellor Darling said yesterday. As the nationalised bank announced a loss of £585.4m in the...

Hundreds of occupying Waterford Crystal workers, members of the Unite trade union, will be joining today’s national demonstration in Dublin. It has been called by...

LABOUR refused to demand Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s resignation yesterday, following the revelation that he held a party in his Downing Street garden...

WITH Congress adjourned for the weekend, US President Obama was holding last-minute talks with Republican and Democratic leaders at the White House yesterday evening...

‘WHEN bus services are axed, it isolates communities,’ Unison warned in launching a new campaign to save local bus services. ‘We are living in isolation!’...

Firefighters in Suffolk were angry yesterday as the Ministry of Defence and the Armed Forces set out to break their strike actions against plans...

THERE were powerful picket lines outside hospitals around the country yesterday as junior doctors began a 72-hour strike against Tory attacks on the NHS...

THE Arab League; the Quartet of the United States, the United Nations, the European Union and Russia; Israel and the Palestinian Fatah movement are...

TORY Chancellor Osborne, in his Autumn Statement delivered to parliament yesterday, launched war on the unemployed, students, youth and the state pension. Rather than announcing...

THE floods crisis in central and western England continued yesterday with tens of thousands of homes stranded without water and electricity supplies. Up to...

AT 5.30AM yesterday about 50 armed riot police stormed the striking steel workers’ pickets at the Hellenic Steel plant in Aspropyrgos, about 25 km...

GP LEADERS yesterday handed in a 16,000-strong petition from patients to Downing Street demanding ministers act urgently to help GP practices under threat of...

THE UK Supreme Court yesterday rejected WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s appeal of the decision to extradite him to the US, where the WikiLeaks co-founder...

‘Unions stand ready to oppose the attacks on workplace rights contained in the Beecroft Report,’ a TUC spokesman told News Line yesterday. ‘Attacking workers’ rights...

LABOUR Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer beat the war drums at the Scottish Labour Party Conference in Glasgow yesterday. He said that ‘we can’t cling...

THOUSANDS of firefighters are marching on Westminster today against government cuts to the fire and rescue service and attacks on their pensions. Coachloads of firefighters...

‘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,...

HEAD of NHS England, Simon Stephens, has angered millions of workers with his suggestions that pensioners’ free bus passes and their triple-lock pension arrangements...

THE TORY government’s claim that it is injecting an extra £10bn into the NHS in England over the next five years is simply ‘misleading,’...

TORY government plans to boost the number of trainee nurses in the wake of the Francis report into Mid Staffs are failing, the Royal...

LOCKED OUT Gate Gourmet workers received their monthly hardship payments of £228.80 from the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) yesterday. ‘We received it today...

MORE than 6,000 trade unionists and NHS supporters marched through Leeds last Saturday afternoon against Tory government cuts and the privatisation of the NHS...

Both US President Barack Obama and the Republican leader in Congress John Boehner raised the spectre of a market crash today if the political...

BORIS Johnson has insisted he will stay in office, despite a growing Tory revolt against his leadership. At Prime Minister’s Questions, he said he had...

THE PCS civil service union yesterday announced that members across the UK will be walking out for a third day of strike action on...

‘WHEN will the Prime Minister and others be investigated by the police for alleged corporate manslaughter and why did they not follow the example...

DOCTORS at the British Medical Association Special Representative Meeting yesterday morning voted unanimously to oppose the government’s Health and Social Care Bill, and demand...

CHILD refugees languishing in squalid conditions in camps in Calais without their parents or any family member to look after them urgently need...

FOURTEEN-hundred workers at the Grangemouth oil refinery in Scotland face the sack at 6pm today if they refuse to sign a wage- and conditions-cutting...

THERE were three sets of NHS workers on strike at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel yesterday, the domestic and catering workers, the pathologists...

THE UK unemployment rate has surged to its highest level in over three years to 4.5% in the three months to August, compared with...