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THREE thousand five hundred car workers’ jobs are to be axed as Japanese carmaker Honda announces this morning that it is to shut down...

‘GENERAL Practice is cracking,’ Dr Richard Vautrey, GP committee UK chair, told the BMA Annual Representative Meeting in Brighton yesterday, highlighting the closure of...

The number of people in the UK whose homes were repossessed last year rose by 21 per cent, to 27,100, compared to 22,400 in...

‘THIS is the biggest gathering that I can remember of solicitors, barristers, probation staff and the many people we represent,’ solicitor Paul Harris told...

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

‘Reinstate Sian’ demanded a lobby, by over a dozen female firefighters and supporters, of the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority (LFEPA) yesterday....

HUNDREDS of barristers demonstrated outside courts in Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Leeds, London and Manchester yesterday, on the second day of their indefinite strike. Over 100...

HOSPITAL doctors at the BMA Consultants Conference yesterday voted with just three against to ‘ballot the consultant membership regarding all forms of industrial action’...

BRITISH Airline Pilots Association (BALPA) chief negotiator Pete James bought his ticket yesterday for the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers anniversary rally in Southall...

PRIVATE equity raider, the Texas Pacific Group has sold airline catering company Gate Gourmet to bankers Merrill Lynch. Gate Gourmet, which is based in the...

Chancellor Darling admitted yesterday that ‘of course’ he knew that abolishing the 10p tax rate would affect five million low-paid workers. However, in an interview...

THE ROYAL College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday announced the dates for the indicative ballot for strike action demanding a 12.5% pay increase. The ballot opens on...

FIRE Brigades Union reps met yesterday to prepare for a national strike ballot over changes to the firefighters’ pension scheme. The FBU National Conference begins...

MASSES of Egyptians flooded into Cairo’s Tahrir Square yesterday, responding to the calls for a million-strong march to demand the removal of President Mubarak. Simultaneously,...

Sunday 14 October, 2-8pm Southall Community Centre Merrick Road, Southall (nr Southall station) Beat Gate Gourmet & other cheap labour bosses! Support our cases for racial discrimination against...

OVER 1,500 people marched on Saturday to oppose Lambeth Council’s closure of five of the ten libraries in the borough. The people from Carnegie...

‘I HAVE never seen, in the whole world, a hospital, which is meant to save people’s lives, which is meant to treat pregnant women...

‘We call on all trade unionists and anti-war campaigners to support this good cause, Chagos Islands Community Association chairwoman, Hengride Permal, said yesterday. ‘We need...

THE Young Socialists March for Jobs and Free State Education marched from Wolverhampton to Birmingham yesterday. And last night they were staying at the Irish...

MORE than 130,000 homeless children will be living in temporary accommodation this Christmas in Britain, according to estimates by the homeless charity Shelter. In...

‘IF I’m told I’m to be made compulsorily redundant I will not accept. I’m fighting for reinstatement and will not give up my claim...

Bus drivers have backed a call for a major cut in their driving hours. At a conference in Eastbourne organised by the Transport and General...

OVER 700 trade unionists, former miners and determined supporters, demonstrated on Saturday in Sheffield to back the Orgreave Justice Campaign’s call for a full...

GMB officers are seeking permission for a strike ballot after pay talks broke down covering 175 GMB members employed as domestics and hostesses by...

IRAQI President Saddam Hussein, seized by US occupation forces after the invasion of the country, yesterday refused to recognise the authority of the court...

METRO BANK’S shares have crashed after reports it is seeking to raise millions to bolster its finances. The bank’s shares sank 27% in early trading...

YESTERDAY’S 24-hour strike by 200 Aslef members working out of London’s Waterloo Station was 100 per cent solid and will be repeated tomorrow, Aslef...

OVER 200 patients, health professionals, union members and campaigners marched through east London yesterday against cuts to GP surgeries which threaten the closure of...

Five Israeli soldiers were killed yesterday afternoon as ferocious resistance by Hezbollah fighters held off their attempts to advance into southern Lebanon. Hezbollah also said it...

THE FAMILY of Jean Charles de Menezes yesterday vowed to continue their struggle for justice, and while denouncing the conduct of the coroner at...

THE US economy will fall off the ‘fiscal cliff’ when automatic spending cuts and tax increases kick in at the beginning of next year,...

‘It’s true we have had people who got themselves into difficulty and ministers been dismissed. We’ve had huge problems on this front,’ Prime Minister...

STRIKE action took place yesterday across the three campuses of Middlesex University with lecturers and staff picketing every entrance against the threat of 300...

THE vast majority of doctors believe the Tory-LibDem coalition government’s health policies threaten the future of the NHS, finds a poll for the BMA. The...

‘WE ARE calling on everyone to march with us through Enfield on Saturday, July 26th. Workers of Enfield won’t allow this government to close...

YESTERDAY, on Al- Quds Day, thousands of people took to the streets of London in a powerful march orchestrated by the Justice for Palestine...

‘Long-term unemployment has doubled, not because of a sudden increase in work-shy scroungers, but as an inevitable result of economic policies based on cuts...

Postal workers at the CWU Conference in Bournemouth said yesterday they are ready for a fight to defend their jobs, wages and the postal...

TGWU leader Tony Woodley told the mass meeting of locked out Gate Gourmet workers yesterday afternoon that the sell out deal he has negotiated...

We are very sad to announce the sudden death of John Breen on Monday 15 February. He was a lifelong member of what became, SOGAT,...

THE NATIONAL Union of Students (NUS) threw its weight behind the biggest ever wave of strikes on university campuses yesterday. The NUS pledged its solid...

A coachload of fifty Swindon striking hospital workers yesterday descended on the London Headquarters of Carillion in Euston with shouts of ‘Respect at work! They...

At the last minute yesterday afternoon, the Transport and General Workers Union called off today’s 48-hour strike by British Airways cabin crew. The TGWU...

‘As ordinary trade union members are fighting for their jobs they must have a leadership with a policy of “not one job sold, not...

PRESIDENT Poroshenko has retracted his earlier statement regarding a ‘permanent ceasefire’ in eastern Ukraine, which followed a phone call between the Russian and...