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‘We’ll picket until we get our jobs back’

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GATE Gourmet workers on the picket line at Heathrow Airport yesterday, said their lobby of the TUC General Council on Wednesday had been...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet pickets on Saturday morning read news of British Airways’ threats to make more sackings to boost profits

Blunkett Quits The Cabinet

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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

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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 Carving Up West Bank

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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...

Stop Gate Gourmet Sell-Out!

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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...
Locked out Gate Gourmet workers lobbying the TUC on Monday demanding action to win their jobs back seen here speaking to GMB general secretary PAUL KENNY

NURSES TAKE LABOUR TO COURT! –to stop the privatisation of NHS Primary Care Services

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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

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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

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GATE Gourmet workers who have been selected for compulsory redundancy angrily spoke to News Line over the weekend about letters they had received explaining...
TGWU leader TONY WOODLEY has  to listen as Gate Gourmet workers denounce the sell-out deal negotiated with the company

ISRAELI PLANES BOMBING GAZA – Mofaz rules out Palestinian state for years ahead

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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

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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’

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‘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!

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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

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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

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‘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’

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‘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

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Respect MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, George Galloway has thrown down a challenge to the US Senate homeland security committee to charge him...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers lobbying the TUC demanding action to win their jobs back

No compulsory redundancies say Gourmet workers

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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

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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...

Reinstatement For US All Say Gourmet Workers

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MOST of the locked out Gate Gourmet workers who have received compulsory redundancy letters by special delivery during the past few days went...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers lobbying the TUC Gongress last month demanding action to win their reinstatement

NHS CRISIS – hits Chase Farm, North Middx & Grantham

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The leading orthopaedic surgeon at Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield has handed in his notice after 30 years in the NHS, because ‘all managers...

‘WE NEED NEW LEADERS’ – say Gate Gourmet workers

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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...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers picketing yesterday morning on the hill near the factory

NO TO A ROTTEN COMPROMISE! sayGate Gourmet workers

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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 workers yesterday – determined that they will return to work together

‘A TERRIBLE INJUSTICE’ – CPS finds Stanley murder to be ‘resaonable’

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‘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...

Gate Gourmet anger over attack on BA stewards

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GATE Gourmet workers were very angry yesterday when they heard that BA has decided that three BA shop stewards are to face disciplinary...

DEFIANT SADDAM – refuses to recognise stooge court

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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

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‘We are calling for the whole airport to come out, not just to support us but to defend themselves,’ Jaswinder Phal told News Line...

‘WE WANT OUR JOBS BACK’ say Gate Gourmet workers

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Locked out Gate Gourmet workers insisted to News Line yesterday they want their jobs back. On the picket line at Heathrow Airport Jarnail, said: ‘I...

BLAIR MUST ANSWER FOR WAR LIES say Military families against war

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Rose Gentle, Susan Smith, Peter Brierley and Karla Hewett, whose sons and brother died in the Iraq war, set up a 24-hour Peace Camp...

Gate Gourmet ‘Blacklist’

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LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers are angry that they are being told by the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) to hold on and...

US Bombers Kill 70 Iraqis

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US warplanes and helicopter gunships have carried out punishment raids on two villages near Ramadi, killing at least 40 Iraqi civilians. In a statement yesterday,...

Five US Marines Killed

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Five US Marines were killed by a roadside bomb in Ramadi, western Iraq, on Saturday, the US military said in a statement yesterday.   Their armoured...

120-strong Gate Gourmet picket

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THERE was a large picket of about 120 sacked Gate Gourmet workers yesterday. Daljit said: ‘We are waiting to see if British Airways sign ...

NO MORE WAITING – demand Gate Gourmet workers

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GATE Gourmet pickets said yesterday they were fed up with waiting. They poured scorn on a Transport and General Workers Union plea to British Airways...
Gate Gourmet workers on the picket line yesterday determined to win their jobs back

‘We reject compulsory redundancies’ – say Gate Gourmet workers

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GATE Gourmet workers were on the picket line at Heathrow Airport yesterday, determined to win their rights, having been told on Wednesday that British...

MPs SLAM BLANKET BANS – Blears refuses ‘evidence’

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PARLIAMENT is being taken ‘into very dangerous and damaging waters,’ Labour MP Alan Simpson said yesterday. He was speaking after the Blair government presented MPs...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers yesterday at Heathrow – determined to reject any deal which includes compulsory redundancies

Gate Gourmet Deal ‘Worthless’

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‘The deal done between the TGWU and Gate Gourmet is worthless, I’m going to apply to an Employment Tribunal for unfair dismissal,’ Mr A...

‘UNCOVER POLICE LIES’ – demands the de Menezes family

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‘JEAN Charles did not run from the police. He was unjustly assassinated on the London metro,’ the brother of Jean Charles de Menezes said...

‘Gate Gourmet Can’t Get Away With This!’

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Yesterday was the beginning of the third month since the more than 700 Gate Gourmet workers were locked out at Heathrow Airport. Speaking on the...

HOSPITALS WILL CLOSE! –warn BMA and Audit Commission

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THE British Medical Association yesterday challenged the Blair government to say what will happen to chronically ill or emergency patients, ‘if the local hospital...

Big Picket At Gate Gourmet!

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THERE was one of the biggest turnouts on the picket line at the Gate Gourmet dispute yesterday, with more than 200 locked out workers...

Union Leaders Helping Bosses Say Gourmet Workers

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angry Gate Gourmet workers told News Line over the weekend that they want their union, the TGWU, to provide them with information on who...

WAR CRIMINALS! –Scott Ritter compares Bush and Blair to Nuremberg Nazis

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‘HE broke the law. He engaged in an illegitimate war of aggression that history has condemned,’ former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter said yesterday,...
Patricia da Silva Armani, Jean Charles’ brother Giovanni de Menezes and Alex Pereira at yesterday’s press conference in London

‘THEY ARE PLAYING WITH OUR LIVES’ say Gourmet pickets

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GATE GOURMET pickets were angry yesterday that they have still not been told who is to be offered their jobs back, or who is...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers at Heathrow yesterday with JOERGEN LINTE (3rd from left) a Gate Gourmet worker from No 3F Airport Workers Union in Copenhagen

UNLAWFUL! Law lords condemn Clarke’s terror plans

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Home Secretary Clarke’s plans to give police powers to hold people for 90 days without charge has been condemned as ‘unlawful’ by Law Lord,...
MARIA OTONE DE MENEZES, mother of Jean Charles addressing the packed London meeting on Monday night

‘THIS IS A LIE’ – Iran condemns Blair weapons allegations

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PRIME Minister Blair yesterday repeated allegations that Iran had a hand in the deaths of British troops in Iraq. Speaking at a joint press conference...