WE WANT ALL OF OUR JOBS BACK insist Gate Gourmet workers
GATE Gourmet workers are very angry that their union, the TGWU, is still urging them to sign the Compromise Agreement deal negotiated with the...
Three More US Marines Killed
Three more US marines were killed in western Iraq on Monday, the US military confirmed yesterday. All three, from the 2nd Marine Division, were taking...
Another mass picket at Gate Gourmet
THE mass picket of over 100 Gate Gourmet workers at Heathrow Airport yesterday were angry at capitalist press revelations that at least two of...
WORKING CLASS MUST TAKE POWER! – WRP General Secretary Frank Sweeney tells the News...
‘The only way to solve the problems facing the working class today is for the working class to take state power and smash...
‘LISTEN TO US OR ELSE!’ – US & France warn Syria
THE US and France yesterday threatened Syria with sanctions. They accused Syrian President Assad of failing to cooperate fully with the UN investigation into the...
TGWU leaders still pushing ‘compromise agreement’
LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers were very angry on the picket line at Heathrow Airport yesterday when letters from the TGWU solicitor advising them...
Mass Picket At Gate Gourmet
There was a big picket of over 200 locked out Gate Gourmet workers at Heathrow airport yesterday. Locked out worker Ramesh told News Line:...
BLAIR MUST GO – says RMT
RMT rail union general secretary Bob Crow repeated a call for Blair to go yesterday in the wake of Wednesday’s Terrorism Bill defeat. Crow said:...
TGWU register 735 tribunal cases
THERE was a mass picket of over 200 locked out Gate Gourmet workers at Heathrow airport yesterday. Senior shop steward Mr Dhillon told News...
NO TO 90 DAYS! – Blair and police suffer major defeat
‘BLAIR should go’, said former Labour minister Glenda Jackson yesterday after a rebellion by 49 Labour MPs saw the government defeated by 322-291 votes...
‘MORE COPS WON’T SOLVE ANYTHING’ – say defiant French youths
‘More repression means more destruction’, said defiant French youths yesterday, in answer to the state-of emergency announced by Interior Minister Nicholas Sarkozy. They said curfews...
Gate Gourmet workers support French strikers
Locked out Gate Gourmet workers, on their picket line at Heathrow Airport yesterday, spoke out in support of the French airport workers who are...
Locked-out workers demand action as French unions strike against BA
GATE GOURMET workers were yesterday calling for action to win their jobs back while, at the same time, BA was opening up a second...
POLICE KNOW BEST! – Blair’s message for House of Commons
Prime Minister Blair yesterday attacked MPs for opposing the police demand for powers to hold people for 90 days without charge. Blair told his monthly...
TGWU must defend BA shop stewards say GateGourmet workers
‘We have rejected the deal between the TGWU leaders and Gate Gourmet and put in for our employment tribunals. ‘The TGWU and TUC leaders...
‘The Gaza Strip Has Turned Into A Huge Prison!’
AMID Palestinian ‘deep frustration’ with Israel’s ‘refusal to coordinate in good faith’, an EU delegation arrived on Saturday in Rafah to station security cameras...
‘WE WILL FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTS’ says Gate Gourmet Branch Secretary
‘THE union solicitor is filing our cases for employment tribunals. The cases must be filed before 90 days, we’ve waited for the company to...
DEEPCUT INQUIRY ‘A FARCE’ says father of dead soldier
The Surrey Police re-investigation into the deaths of recruits at the Deepcut army barracks ‘was a farce’ Private Geoff Gray’s father, also named Geoff,...
HOME OFFICE CAN’T STARVE REFUGEES – Law Lords reject Blunkett’s law
Homeless charity Shelter and the Refugee Council yesterday both welcomed the Law Lords’ unanimous rejection of the controversial law pushed through by former Home...
‘We’ll picket until we get our jobs back’
GATE Gourmet workers on the picket line at Heathrow Airport yesterday, said their lobby of the TUC General Council on Wednesday had been...
Blunkett Quits The Cabinet
Announcing Blunkett’s resignation as Work and Pensions Secretary to MPs yesterday, Prime Minister Blair made it clear he had been ready to defy...
Gate Gourmet Workers Confront Woodley And Barber
GATE Gourmet workers lobbied the TUC General Council in central London yesterday. They brought their banner: ‘Justice for the Sacked Gate Gourmet Workers’ and...
Stop Gate Gourmet Sell-Out!
WE want the TUC to give us the support that they voted for at their TUC Congress. ‘They must help us to win our jobs...
Stop Carving Up West Bank
The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) has appealed to the international community to force Israel to stop carving up the West Bank into Bantustans. Meanwhile, Syria has...
NURSES TAKE LABOUR TO COURT! –to stop the privatisation of NHS Primary Care Services
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday began a legal challenge to government plans to privatise the NHS by abolishing the role of Primary...
Strong Picket By Gate Gourmet Workers
WELL over 100 locked out Gate Gourmet workers were picketing yesterday near to Heathrow airport. TGWU member Manny Odedra told News Line: ‘The people the...
Tuc Must Act To Win Our Struggle
GATE Gourmet workers who have been selected for compulsory redundancy angrily spoke to News Line over the weekend about letters they had received explaining...
ISRAELI PLANES BOMBING GAZA – Mofaz rules out Palestinian state for years ahead
ISRAEL has ruled out peace and even an interim accord with the Palestinian leadership and the Palestinian people, kicking the ‘peace process’...
‘STOP JUSTIFYING MURDER’ – De Menezes family urges Met Chief Blair
The family of Jean Charles de Menezes have reacted with horror at Met chief Sir Ian Blair’s attempted justification of his ‘Shoot-to-Kill’ policy. The 27...
‘the Unions Must Act To Win This Struggle’
‘WHEN we went to the TUC in Brighton last month, they voted unanimously to support our struggle now we need that support to be...
Amsterdam Horror!
THE European Group for the Rights of Prisoners (EORG) was demanding answers yesterday after at least 11 people were ...
‘Compromise deal collapsing’ say Gate Gourmet workers
HUNDREDS of locked out Gate Gourmet workers went to the TGWU regional office in Hillingdon yesterday to receive their ‘hardship’ payments and to question...
‘DOING THE DIRTY WORK FOR DICTATORS’ – Blair and Clarke accused
‘Is it our intention to do the dirty work for dictatorships all over the world?’ Labour MP John Denham challenged Home Secretary Clarke yesterday. Denham...
‘We’Re Not Signing Compromise Agreement’
‘WE are not signing the Compromise Agreement. It’s one big con. It’s daylight robbery. There’s no other word for it.’ ‘I sent in my application...
‘I’LL SEE YOU IN COURT’ – Galloway challenges Senate witchhunters
Respect MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, George Galloway has thrown down a challenge to the US Senate homeland security committee to charge him...
No compulsory redundancies say Gourmet workers
ON the picket line at Heathrow Airport yesterday Gate Gourmet workers told News Line that they were not going to accept compulsory redundancy. Mr Gurbaksish...
Blair’s Market – For Both Health And Education
Prime Minister Blair yesterday announced plans for a ‘system of independent, self-governing state schools’, and an education ‘market based on choice’, with changes being...
Reinstatement For US All Say Gourmet Workers
MOST of the locked out Gate Gourmet workers who have received compulsory redundancy letters by special delivery during the past few days went...
‘WE NEED NEW LEADERS’ – say Gate Gourmet workers
LOCKED-out Gate Gourmet workers were very angry on the picket line at the weekend after many of them had received special delivery letters informing...
NHS CRISIS – hits Chase Farm, North Middx & Grantham
The leading orthopaedic surgeon at Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield has handed in his notice after 30 years in the NHS, because ‘all managers...
NO TO A ROTTEN COMPROMISE! sayGate Gourmet workers
TGWU members on the picket line yesterday condemned the ‘Compromise Agreement, reached between Gate Gourmet and the TGWU leaders. Mr Sangha said: ‘The company...
Gate Gourmet anger over attack on BA stewards
GATE Gourmet workers were very angry yesterday when they heard that BA has decided that three BA shop stewards are to face disciplinary...
‘A TERRIBLE INJUSTICE’ – CPS finds Stanley murder to be ‘resaonable’
‘I feel a terrible injustice has been done to me and my family’, Irene Stanley, the widow of Harry Stanley told News Line yesterday. She...
DEFIANT SADDAM – refuses to recognise stooge court
Saddam Hussein yesterday insisted he was the president of Iraq, and refused to recognise the US appointed court, declining to give his name or...
BRING OUT THE AIRPORT – urge Gate Gourmet workers
‘We are calling for the whole airport to come out, not just to support us but to defend themselves,’ Jaswinder Phal told News Line...