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AT A STORMY packed meeting of some 300 delegates on Monday the Greek Public Workers Confederation ADEDY decided to call a national 24-hour strike...

‘WE WANT the strike action reinstated immediately and extended, so that we can defeat Walsh’s union-busting operation once and for all,’ British Airways Stewards...

‘THE TUC and its affiliates must fight for the policy they voted for, to increase the minimum wage to £10 an hour,’ Bakers Union...

AN AMBULANCE staff shortage has reached such a critical point, GPs warn, that very young and elderly patients are dying before getting to hospital. This...

UNEMPLOYED youth are to be conscripted into ‘boot camps’ or face being thrown off benefits and onto the streets, in a ‘vindictive’ new Tory...

AL-AWDA Hospital in Tel al-Zaatar, northern Gaza, has issued an urgent appeal to international humanitarian bodies after an Israeli airstrike ignited a catastrophic fire...

CAMPAIGNING in Firth Park, Sheffield, yesterday morning, the Mike Driver Vote WRP campaign said, ‘We got great support from everyone, with many agreeing with...

JUNIOR doctors are being left in charge of A&Es for entire shifts without a single senior doctor on the ward, new figures have revealed,...

Prime Minister Blair yesterday outlined new draconian measures to deport or jail people judged to be ‘glorifying terrorism’. He said ‘intensive meetings across government’ had...

The United States government is torturing inmates at its Guantanamo Bay concentration camp on the tip of Cuba, and it should be shut down. That...

FORD has almost doubled the amount of job losses to hit car workers in the UK; now as many as 3,100 face the sack...

The Bank of England yesterday mortgaged £11 billion more of taxpayers’ money to shore up the big UK banks, as bank bosses held talks...

GENERAL Practice in the North of Ireland is close to collapse with the General Practitioners Committee (GPC) seeking to collect enough undated resignations to...

The arrogance of Metroline’s boss in talks with the Transport and General Workers Union, coupled with the failure to move sufficiently on pay, means...

WORKERS at Heathrow Airport Ltd (HAL) are launching three 24-hour strikes over plans to fire and rehire its 4,000 workers on vastly reduced pay...

Civil rights organisation Liberty yesterday urged the government not to give police powers to arrest demonstrators for ‘offensive’ chants and/or slogans on placards. This followed...

THE EU and the UN called for an official probe into mass graves at hospitals in Gaza, where hundreds of bodies have been discovered,...

ACROSS the UK, hundreds of thousands of public sector workers were on strike yesterday against government plans to make them work longer and pay...

ASKED if he would take the blame if Britain votes to leave the EU tomorrow, Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn replied: ‘I’m not going...

OVER 100 workers, students and youth attended the News Line Anniversary Rally at the Wheatsheaf Community Hall in Vauxhall, south west London on Saturday...

TORY PM Johnson was joined by head of NHS England Simon Stevens at a joint press conference yesterday afternoon in which they reported 492...

‘THE US economy is haemorrhaging jobs at a pace and scale never before recorded,’ Scott Anderson, chief economist at the Bank of the West...

‘It’s shameful the way Gate Gourmet workers have been treated by both the company and the union,’ Hounslow local government UNISON assistant branch secretary...

THE NHS is planning ‘previously unthinkable’ cuts to try to balance the books, according to a survey conducted by NHS Providers, which represents NHS...

IN a speech in Telford yesterday, Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the Labour Party, urged that ‘his government’ should be judged on the ‘real change’...

‘LIVES will be at risk’ if Manchester is targeted again by terrorists because a specialist fire service unit has shut, a watchdog warned yesterday. Concerns...

A Royal College of Nursing (RCN) survey of senior nurses, released yesterday, says 13,000 NHS job losses have been announced in the last six...

WALTHAMSTOW’S WRP election premises were opened on Thursday evening to a loud cheer from campaigners and supporters who had gathered outside the shop. Workers Revolutionary...

PALESTINIAN child prisoners detained by Israeli authorities in recent months have indicated an upsurge of flagrant violations against them during and after detention, including...

Three RAF servicemen were killed on Thursday in one of the daily mortar attacks on their base in Basra, southern Iraq, spokesman Major Matthew...

THE Royal College of Nursing (RCN) is today (Thursday 30 December) raising the alarm over morale, sickness absence and the prospect of rising vacancies...

‘OUR fight is continuing and so is our picket,’ locked out Gate Gourmet worker Parmjit Bains told News Line yesterday. ‘We have rejected the Compromise...

IN THE WAKE of the collapse of Carillion, another outsourcing giant, Serco has taken over 15 healthcare contracts at a bargain basement price in...

FURTHER welfare cuts and tax rises ‘must be on the cards’ to make the government’s numbers in the Autumn Statement add up, the Institute...

Youth unemployment is set to more than treble over the next two years, research group, the Centre for Cities predicts in a report published...

GATE Gourmet locked-out workers are holding their monthly mass picket at the Beacon Roundabout, Beacon Road, near Heathrow Airport, Terminal Four from 11am to...

PRESIDENT Francois Hollande has said a vote by UK MPs against involvement in military strikes on Syria has not changed France’s resolve to take...

‘WE WANT support from the whole airport and wider,’ striking BA mixed fleet cabin crew member and Unite rep Charly Bacon said yesterday. She was...

ELEVEN colleges launched three days of strike action yesterday morning after rejecting a 1% pay offer which, when inflation is taken into account, is...

CALLUM MacLean, Ineos Grangemouth chairman, was exultant yesterday as he told the media that Unite the union had agreed to a three-year pay freeze,...

Prime Minister Brown yesterday announced another 500 UK troops are being sent to Afghanistan. In a statement to MPs in the House of Commons on...

UBER Eats and Deliveroo drivers are now joining McDonald’s, TGI Friday’s and Wetherspoons workers in a day of strike action tomorrow to demand a...

THE Tory Party Conference opened in a massive crisis in Birmingham yesterday, after two top Tories resigned from their positions in the preceding two...

STRUGGLING families are losing out on hundreds of pounds a year as a result of changes to child benefit over the past decade, said...

‘It is too soon to tell how far the disruption in financial markets will impair the availability of credit to companies and households,’ said...