‘We are not going to let our local NHS services be decimated!’ says Save...

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THE SAVE Southend NHS Campaign has learnt from separate senior hospital sources that staff at Southend ITU (Intensive Therapy Unit) have been told there...
RMT general secretary MICK CASH and his assistant STEVE HEDLEY were adamant that in the interests of its passengers the rail industry must be renationalised

RMT Protest At Rail Rip-Off Fares

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REGULATED rail fares will increase by 3.6% from January 2018 it was announced yesterday, as the Retail Prices Index (RPI) figure for July was...

UK Threatened By Global Shocks – Says Bank Of England Report

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The UK economy is under threat of collapse from ‘global shocks’, and has no real independence and little room for manoeuvre. This subordination of...
Sacked Visteon workers outside the Enfield factory yesterday

Angry Visteon Workers Reject Offer!

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‘WE ARE deeply insulted and more determined than ever to carry on the fight,’ Enfield Visteon factory Unite convenor Kevin Nolan told News Line...

Evacuate within 24 hours or else face Israeli invasion – US & Israel tell...

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ISRAEL has ordered residents of Gaza City to evacuate the area within 24 hours, in what is viewed as a precursor of a ground...
Health workers, trade unionists and youth marching to defend the NHS on its 63rd birthday in July this year demanded ‘Scrap the Health Bill!’

NHS TO BE 49% PRIVATE! – workers and poor to be shown the door

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THE HEALTH and Social Care Bill has been revised to allow nearly half of foundation hospital income to be raised from private patient beds...

Resident doctors fighting Labour attacks on the NHS!

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RESIDENT doctors leaders declared their determination to defeat the Labour government’s continuing attacks on jobs and pay when they appeared on BBC Radio yesterday...
Over 7,000 firefighters took part in the recent national demonstration in Liverpool to support the Merseyside FBU dispute

Further Mersey FBU strike dates

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MERSEYSIDE fire crews will be taking a further two four-day blocks of strike action. The first four days will start at 10.00am on 28...

Israel rejects ceasefire and pledges to flatten Gaza City

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ISRAEL has rejected another new ceasefire proposal that would have halted its genocidal war on Gaza, warning instead that it will flatten Gaza City...

118 sites face privatisation demolition or ‘regeneration’ 8,000 London council homes under threat

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ONE hundred and eighteen council housing sites in London are facing privatisation, demolition or ‘regeneration,’ which will mean, according to council responses to a...

‘We need a general strike!’ – strong call from picketing nurses

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THE TORY government issued a calculated insult to thousands of striking nurses yesterday as the Royal College of Nursing held national strike action for...
Rail workers lobbying the House of Commons yesterday to defend their pensions

Blair Refuses To Name Day!

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Prime Minister Blair yesterday refused once again to name the day when he will begin the transfer of office to his successor, who is...

Blair Profiles Poor For Special Measures

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PRIME Minister Blair yesterday revealed his plan to use the same profiling techniques that are being used to identify ‘terrorists’ to identify...

Fox-Gove Brexit Surrender

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THE TORY Brexiteers are starting to split with a number moving to support PM May and a Customs Union with the EU. The UK...
Jaguar car workers demanding the Browns Lane Coventry factory stays open – another 5,000 jobs are facing the axe

Jaguar to axe 5,000 jobs

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JAGUAR Land Rover (JLR) announced yesterday it is cutting up to an eighth of its 40,000 strong UK workforce with up to 5,000 car...

High risk of harm on shift due to nurse shortage – RCN conference...

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A QUARTER of registered nurses say that their number is so far below what is required that there is now a ‘high risk’ of...

Shares And £ Collapse

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Share prices and the pound were battered yesterday after the publication of official figures showed that the UK economy shrank for...

Restore All Funding To Palestine – Says Tuc Congress

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THE TUC Congress in Brighton yesterday voted unanimously for Composite Motion 16: Palestine, which calls ‘on the British government to maintain all funding to...
RCN members marching on a TUC demonstration – they are demanding that the NHS is properly financed and thousands of new nurses are brought in to the NHS and trained

Rcn Warning Over NHS Cash And Nursing Crisis

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COMMENTING on Tory Health Secretary Hunt’s plans to cap charges for NHS agency staff, Janet Davies, Chief Executive & General Secretary of the RCN...
BMA members marching in central London against the Health Bill – the BMA has now demanded that Lansley resign

LANSLEY RESIGN! – BMA demands

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DELEGATES at the BMA representatives meeting in Bournemouth yesterday called for Health Secretary Lansley to resign against the advice of their leadership. Motion 22 from...

Gate Gourmet Strikebreak At Stansted

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The GMB trade union yesterday condemned the use of Gate Gourmet-employed catering workers as strike breakers at Stansted Airport. Security workers who scan luggage at...

Two Koreas ‘Cease All Hostile Acts!’

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HAILING a ‘new era of peace’, North Korea leader Kim Jong-un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, sealed their talks on Friday with a...

Inflation Lets Rip!

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Inflation rose to 4.8 per cent in March, according to the latest RPIX index – which includes all items excluding mortgage interest payments. The latest...
Nurses determined to save their hospital marching in Nottingham last September

No Action Over NHS Spiralling Deficits

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The Labour government has decided to put on hold a decision to scrap the ‘double whammy’ NHS accounting rules that are forcing hospital trusts...

UN Finds Israel Is Committing Genocide In The Gaza Strip!

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A UNITED Nations investigation has found that Israel committed acts of genocide in the Gaza Strip, systematically targeting reproductive healthcare facilities as part of...
London FBU Strike Actions!

London FBU Strike Actions!

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London firefighters have voted overwhelmingly for strike action in a dispute over changes to shift patterns, and have decided to begin their campaign with...

NSL car park workers–2-day strike

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THE NSL parking services workers of the GMB trade union started a two-day strike yesterday for the London Living Wage. News Line joined them on...

FOODBANK USE ROCKETS! – huge demand for emergency food supplies

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THE number of emergency food supplies given out by Farnborough Foodbank has risen by 5.27% in the last year. Farnborough Foodbank is part of The...

Royal Mail Xmas Strikes Against Mass Sackings

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NEW Christmas strikes have been called against the destruction of postal workers’ livelihoods Following further attacks on the terms and conditions of postal workers, the...

More aid seekers slaughtered in Rafah

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ISRAELI regime forces killed at least 78 Palestinians, including several aid seekers, in bombing attacks across the Gaza Strip yesterday. Palestine’s Safa news agency reported...

11,355 Children Killed In Zionist Genocide

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THE Gaza Health Ministry has published a report detailing the name, age, gender and identification numbers of tens of thousands of people killed by...

GMB warn of furlough cliff edge

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‘INSTEAD of driving us off a furlough cliff edge later this year, the government should provide continued support for employers,’ the GMB union said...

BANK’S XMAS BOMBSHELL! – 5% interest rates are on the way

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Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) member Paul Fisher dropped a Christmas bombshell yesterday. He revealed that the Bank’s policymakers would like to see...

THIRD YEAR OF WAGE FREEZING! – time to bring down coalition

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Yesterday, local government employers confirmed that they are to impose a pay freeze for the third year running on 1.6 million council workers. Unison, Unite...

Hamas never agreed to surrender all its weapons during ceasefire talks

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A SENIOR Hamas official has said the Palestinian resistance group never agreed to surrender its weapons during indirect ceasefire talks that brought a pause...
CWU pickets at the Peckham Delivery Office yesterday morning

London Postal Strike 100%

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LONDON delivery offices took all-out strike action yesterday in the ongoing battle by postal workers to defend jobs in Royal Mail. The Communication Workers Union...

Israeli occupation forces and colonists escalate attacks on the West Bank

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Israeli occupation forces and colonists have escalated their attacks across the occupied West Bank, injuring Palestinian civilians, destroying agricultural land, and intensifying efforts to...

Scores of people killed in Israeli air strikes!

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SCORES of people, including many women and children, were killed in Israeli air attacks on two UN-run schools in northern Gaza on Saturday –...
Palestinian youth prepare to set fire to piles of tyres on yesterday’s massive ‘Great March of Return’ on the Gaza border

Lethal force used against Palestinians

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LETHAL force was used again yesterday against unarmed Palestinians demonstrating on the Gaza border as Israeli forces open fired, killing two Palestinians. Thousands of protesters...

No To Cheap Labour Teachers!

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TWO TEACHING unions have strongly criticised a minimum wage internship for teachers run by Stranmillis University College in Belfast. The NASUWT said the scheme should...

‘BMA playing with fire’ over 7-day working

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THE BMA yesterday published a paper on seven-day services which supports calls for more NHS services to be available for patients throughout the week. Commenting...

1.1m households can’t afford to pay for heating!

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1.1 MILLION households who cannot afford to heat their home to a comfortable level are in work, according to a new report by the...

Blair’s Market – For Both Health And Education

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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...
SHARON HOLDER of the GMB and WARREN TOWN of the Society of Radiographers both warned that another below inflation wage ‘increase’ would be answered with indusrtrial action

PAY UP! – or face strike action warn NHS trade unions

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THE overstretched and undervalued NHS workforce will not accept another below-inflation pay deal next year, trade unions representing over 1.1 million staff said yesterday. UNISON...

PRIVATE CLINICENTA NHS CONTRACT SUSPENDED – after two patient deaths

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‘The BMA has long voiced concerns about the Independent Sector Treatment Centre programme,’ a British Medical Association (BMA) spokeswoman told News Line yesterday. She was...