RCN OPPOSES ‘RELENTLESS’ NHS ‘REFORM’ – UNISON Health Conference to demand action
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...
Don’t Expel Indian Doctors
THE Royal College of Physicians, the BMA and all the leading medical organisations yesterday demanded the immediate withdrawal of a sudden, and ‘blatantly...
‘SLAVE-DRIVING GATE GOURMET’ says Jarnail Singh, locked-out workers branch secretary
GATE Gourmet locked-out workers’ branch secretary Jarnail Singh condemned the company for ‘slave driving’ yesterday. He said: ‘They made their plans a long time ago...
Health Cuts Continue
Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton, Somerset, yesterday became the latest to announce cuts in the face of mounting NHS deficits. Taunton and Somerset NHS Trust...
OCCUPY PEUGEOT – says ATUA National Secretary
Workers threatened with the sack at the Peugeot plant in Coventry voted at mass meetings yesterday morning for strike action to defend their jobs...
‘WOODLEY SHOULD RESIGN OVER GATE GOURMET’ says RMT member
A team of locked-out Gate Gourmet workers campaigned on Southall High Street yesterday. They spoke to Warish Singh an RMT member from Earls Court tube...
Hounslow UNISON supports Gate Gourmet workers
GATE Gourmet locked-out workers yesterday won big support from UNISON members at Hounslow Civic Centre. Paul Gibbons, a student social worker, said: ‘I get irritated...
HALT NHS JOB LOSSES! says RCN
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) will be holding a national rally in Westminster on May 11th ‘to voice opposition to the government’s...
BARNET NHS CRISIS – faces £31m cuts in 2006-07
Hospital trade unions and patient groups are demanding that the management of Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust come clean on their plans...
2,500 march in Berne to support Gate Gourmet workers
OVER 2,500 people marched in support of the locked out Gate Gourmet workers last Saturday in the Swiss capital of Berne. The march was...
US Defends Israeli Gaza Onslaught
The United States has blocked a UN Security Council statement aimed at putting pressure on Israel to stop its daily murderous military strikes on...
‘parent Power’ To Defeat Trusts
The leaders of Britain’s biggest teachers’ union, the National Union of Teachers, are appealing to ‘parent power’ to defeat the government’s ‘trust schools’...
‘I WOULD DO THE SAME AGAIN’ says Flt Lt Kendall-Smith
An RAF doctor found guilty yesterday of disobeying orders at a court martial after he refused to serve in Iraq, is to appeal against...
Unions Pensions Surrender
LOCAL government trade union leaders yesterday called off this month’s planned pensions strikes and accepted Deputy PM Prescott’s abolition of the Rule of 85...
Blair ‘To Proceed’ – 100,000 NHS Jobs Axe Predicted
Prime Minister Blair yesterday told hospital trust executives at a Downing Street meeting that his NHS privatisation ‘reform’ programme will proceed. That was his message...
Threat To Arrest Pickets
GATE GOURMET locked-out workers had their picket stopped yesterday at the main gate of the Heathrow plant by the Heathrow Airport police and the...
Revolutionary Mass Action Defeats Chirac And Villepin
FRENCH Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin was yesterday forced to make a dramatic climbdown by withdrawing the hated CPE (Contrat Premiere Embauche) for youth. The...
Police Stop Gg Picket Outside Plant
GATE Gourmet locked-out workers were stopped from picketing the Gate Gourmet plant yesterday by the Heathrow Airport police and by the British Airports...
US READY TO BOMB IRAQ – but Straw rejects Hersh warning as ‘nuts’
Yesterday two warnings were given as to the critical situation in Iraq and of US plans to use tactical nuclear weapons against Iran. Award-winning US...
2,000 Nursing Posts Lost Last Month
Student nurses are being used to plug staffing gaps as NHS trusts axe thousands of qualified nurses in the face of government-induced deficits, the...
Action Needed To Defend NHS
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS plans to axe 720 healthcare workers across three hospitals, out of a 4,500 workforce, in a bid to save £30...
Locked-Out Gate Gourmet Workers Picket The Tgwu
TWENTY Gate Gourmet locked-out workers picketed a meeting of TGWU sacked Gate Gourmet shop stewards at the Hillingdon regional office yesterday. Most of the shop...
Blair Threatens To ‘Close The Book’ On Ulster Power Sharing
The British and Irish governments yesterday set a November 24 deadline for north of Ireland politicians to agree to work together in a restored...
TGWU again refuses GG hardship payments
LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers were yesterday angry that the TGWU leaders have once again refused to allow them any hardship pay. This is despite...
China Threat To US Dollar
Fears that China intends to reduce the amount of US government bonds it holds as part of its foreign exchange reserves, shook the US...
Israeli Missile Attack On Gaza
Yesterday afternoon, Israeli military forces attacked Gaza from the land, sea and air. Aircraft launched two missile strikes against the Palestinian presidential headquarters in Gaza...
Strike till CPE is withdrawn
More than 2,000 students meeting outside the entrance of Jussieu university in the centre of Paris yesterday afternoon voted virtually unanimously to strike until...
Welsh NHS Cuts!
‘We are very concerned for our members and our communities,’ Wales UNISON head of health Dave Gallaghan told News Line yesterday. He was responding to...
‘Impossible to avoid long strike’ at Delphi
UAW President Ron Gettelfinger and Vice President Richard Shoemaker have issued this statement on Delphi’s announcement that it will file Section 1113 and Section...
SOCA SECRET AGENCY FORMED! – links former spies, police, customs and immigration services
‘Britain’s FBI’, the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) – which combines former MI5 and MI6 spies with former ‘specialists’ from the police, customs and...
Labour Adds 10% To NHS Deficits
From today, NHS organisations are to be charged ten per cent interest on money they borrow when they run up deficits. The NHS Bank, run...
The Mujahideen Will Win Says Carroll
US authorities were still guarding freed hostage Jill Carroll in Iraq on Friday, after insurgents released her from nearly three months of captivity and...
Rice Visit To Blackburn Cancelled
Fears of massive anti-war protests forced the cancellation of yesterday’s planned visit to Blackburn by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Rice had planned to...
‘A SLAP IN THE FACE FOR SENIOR DOCTORS’ – awarded just 1% ‘wage rise’...
THE British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday said it was astonished at the vindictive and petty treatment of consultants by the government awarding them a...
WHITEWASH! – families denied access to press conference
Yesterday Geoff Gray refused to accept the conclusion of the ‘independent review’ into four deaths at Deepcut barracks, that his son committed suicide. Gray, whose...
1.5 Million Take Strike Action
YESTERDAY’s massive one-day strike stopped whole regions of the UK, but is only the start of the campaign, local government workers warned. Striking local government...
Revolution In France
IT is Tuesday, 3.00pm in Paris and people are still pouring into Place D’Italie for the start of the latest massive anti-government demonstration by...
SECOND CLASS CITIZENS! – elderly being mistreated
Public services often fail to consider the special needs of older people, who are being treated like ‘second class citizens’, Age Concern said yesterday. It...
Disaster At Royal Free
ROYAL Free Hospital bosses have been putting doctors under pressure to accept as much as ten per cent pay cuts as part of a...
UNITY IN ACTION – German & British Gate Gourmet workers picket Texas Pacific
TWENTY SIX Gate Gourmet strikers and supporters from Düsseldorf, Germany, arrived in London yesterday to join Gate Gourmet locked-out workers from Heathrow. They met at...
WORK TILL YOU’RE 65 – BA unveils pensions plan for pilots
British Airways announced yesterday it has drawn up ‘a proposal to clear the £1 billion past service actuarial deficit in its New Airways...
Gg Dusseldorf Strikers In London Today
GATE Gourmet locked-out workers, at Heathrow Airport, are welcoming Gate Gourmet striking workers, from Dusseldorf Airport in Germany, to London today. The British Gate Gourmet...
‘Great support for march’
GATE Gourmet locked-out workers are getting great support for their march through Hounslow on Saturday. Saturday’s march assembles at 1.00pm (see advert on this...
PAY CUTS & JOB CUTS! – Civil servants and nurses condemn budget
Chancellor Gordon Brown delivered his 10th Budget yesterday featuring more tax cuts for the rich and pay cuts for the working class. Opening his speech...
Gg Locked Out Workers Punished For Tribunals
TWO Gate Gourmet locked-out workers went to the TGWU London South East and East Anglia Regional Office in north London yesterday, to ask for...