3 Days Of Junior Doctors Strike Action
THE BMA has today confirmed the dates and details of possible industrial action by junior doctors, following a decision by BMA Council, the body...
A MAJOR ATTACK ON TRADE UNIONS – Lobbying Bill set to become law
AFTER the House of Lords accepted the Lobbying Bill by just one vote the bill is now set to become law. The TUC Congress 2013...
Whipps Cross 3-Day Strike!
Nearly 300 porters, cleaners and switchboard staff employed by Rentokil Initial, based at Whipps Cross Hospital in East London, will be on strike again...
US doctors stand against genocide!
UNITED States Capitol Police have arrested several members of the medical advocacy group Doctors Against Genocide, who had gathered to hold a press conference...
PFI ‘drives cuts and closures’ says BMA
The Private Finance Initiative ‘will burden local health economies for decades’ and drive forward cuts and closures, the British Medical Association (BMA) warned this...
FULL SUPPORT! – pledge the TUC and trade union leaders
‘NO to redundancies!’ ‘We want our jobs!’ ‘We want justice!’ shouted over 300 locked out Gate Gourmet workers yesterday inside the TUC Congress in...
FBU Condemns Strike- Breaking Force!
‘London Fire Authority are paying £12m over five years for what is in effect a strike-breaking force. ‘We are unequivocally opposed to it, it’s a...
£18m wage cut for mid-Yorkshire NHS Trust
Up to 1,100 NHS jobs are to be axed at Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS trust, in a bid to cut the pay bill by...
54,000 youth DNA tested!
POLICE take a DNA sample from a child every ten minutes in England and Wales, figures obtained by the Howard League for Penal Reform...
‘Say No’ To Academies
ONE of the largest chains of academies in England is to be stripped of the control of ten schools, the Department for Education (DfE)...
GMB ‘Coach and horses’ victory
THE GMB trade union yesterday won its first victory in the battle over trade union rights at Asda, on the eve of a five-day...
‘DON’T RETURN US TO SLAVERY!’ – migrant workers demonstrate
HUNDREDS of migrant domestic workers will be gathering in Old Palace Yard, Westminster at 11.00 am this Sunday to demonstrate against the government’s proposed...
Tube workers out solid again
Picket lines were mounted at depots and stations across London yesterday as RMT members walked out for the second time this week in their...
Defeat For Greek Government!
THE Greek coalition government’s presidential candidate right-winger Stavros Dimas received the votes of just 160 parliamentary deputies last Wednesday night in the first round...
BA profits £1.47bn–cabin crew outraged
STRIKING British Airways mixed fleet cabin crew were outraged yesterday by the announcement of £1.47 billion profits for BA for the last financial year,...
50% rise in lorry driver deaths – exposed by Unite research
UNITE has called for urgent reforms into how the deaths of workers and members of the public killed and injured in road accidents...
White goods cause 60 fires a week Silent march for Grenfell today in London...
‘THE GOVERNMENT is failing to get unsafe products out of people’s homes as new fire figures reveal that faulty washing machines, tumble dryers...
RCN Opposes Health Bill
THE UK government has ignored a catalogue of warnings about the nursing workforce crisis since 2016, a new report from the Royal College of...
DEFEND MAIL CENTRES – with strike action across the country
Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) leaders yesterday condemned Royal Mail’s announcement of major automated sorting centre closures affecting Liverpool, Oldham, Bolton, Stockport and Crewe...
Greek Students March Against Privatisation
TENS of thousands of students have been participating in a series of rallies and demonstrations all last week throughout Greece, protesting against the right-wing...
Towers Threatened With Collapse
TWO tower blocks on the Broadwater Farm estate in Tottenham are at risk of a ‘catastrophic collapse’. After the horrific Grenfell fire, which left so...
GLOBAL CATASTROPHE – US Treasury and IMF chief warn Obama
THE US Treasury Department and the IMF have warned that if the US does not resolve its current crisis, it will unleash a global...
BA ‘Rambo’ Walsh Returns To Talks
MASSIVE, worldwide support for the British Airways cabin crew yesterday forced BA boss Walsh back to the negotiating table with the Unite union. Aviation unions...
AIMING FOR VICTORY – say Gate Gourmet locked-out workers
LOCKED-OUT Gate Gourmet workers are campaigning every day for delegations to attend their conference in London on Sunday January 29, whilst at the same...
Two British soldiers killed in Sangin Valley
Two British soldiers were killed in action in Afghanistan on Monday night, the Ministry of Defence confirmed yesterday. A third soldier is in a critical...
Eviction Proceedings Denied By Southwark Council
SOUTHWARK Council denied that it had started eviction proceedings yesterday against tenants of the Heygate Estate in Elephant and Castle, south London. A ...
‘Hospitals don’t have the capacity to cope’ says BMA
HOSPITALS ‘do not have the capacity to cope’ said the British Medical Association (BMA) in response to Emergency Medicine Journal findings about longer waits...
Living Standards collapsing! – as disposable income plummets
LIVING standards are collapsing for the majority of people in Britain today, with individuals having less disposable income to spend on average in the...
Ert Fight At Critical Stage
THE occupation of the Greek State TV and Radio network building HQs (ERT) completed eight days and nights on Tuesday and has entered a...
FORD PLANNING CLOSURES – in Belgium, Germany and the UK
FORD is planning to close its plant in Southampton which makes the Transit van and employs 500 workers. A meeting between Ford’s management and unions...
US threatens Ukraine intervention if conflict escalates
AMERICAN and allied forces may directly intervene in the ongoing Ukraine conflict against Russia even without a threat to any member of the US-led...
Israeli forces continue lethal Gaza operation
ISRAELI forces continued lethal operations in Gaza and intensified repression across the occupied West Bank yesterday amid repeated ceasefire violations in the Strip and...
Storms And Floods Batter Gaza!
HUNDREDS of displacement tents across Gaza were flooded from Thursday night into Friday morning as a powerful winter storm battered the besieged enclave, worsening...
No Compensation For A Wrongly Accused ‘Highjacker’
A pilot wrongly accused of training the 9/11 hijackers has lost his fight for compensation for his ordeal. Lotfi Raissi was detained for nearly...
Labour vows to fight for Remain!
LABOUR is now promising to campaign for Remain in any new EU referendum against ‘no deal or a damaging Tory Brexit’. The shift in Labour’s...
Greek Police Assault Teachers’ Leaders
Greek trade union leaders have called a general strike today after armed riot police furiously attacked teachers union leaders on Monday with batons and...
NHS JOBLESS GROWS – as Department of health sees no crisis
THREE-QUARTERS of newly-qualified nurses are unable to find jobs because trusts are freezing recruitment, the RCN (Royal College of Nursing) said yesterday. The (RCM) Royal...
Rough Sleeping Doubles!
HOMELESSNESS charity St Mungo’s revealed yesterday that 129 rough sleepers died in London since 2010 – an average of one a fortnight – while...
Musa Ibrahim Reports From Libyan War Fronts
MUSA Ibrahim, spokesman for Colonel Gadaffi, gave an interview to the Syria-based Al-Ra’y TV on the evening of September 18. He said: ‘We...
‘BUILD ALLIANCE TO FIGHT ATTACKS!’ – Prentis urges health conference
‘WE will build alliances needed to fight future attacks’ Dave Prentis, the Unison leader, told its Health Conference in Brighton yesterday. Addressing health workers, including...
94.5% yes for post strike – CWU leaders run away!
COMMUNICATION Workers Union (CWU) members in Royal Mail have beaten the anti-union laws for the third time in less than three years delivering a...
Serco strikers want national demo!
‘THERE needs to be a national demonstration. British Airways, the Bank of England, and Serco workers, we are all on strike because we have...
Unis already raising fees to £9,250
UNIVERSITY tuition fees in England will rise to £9,250 per year from 2017 and the increase could apply to students who have already started...
Call NHS Day of Action! – urges consultant surgeon
HEALTH unions yesterday slammed the government’s announcement of six new Private Finance Initiative (PFI) hospital projects costing £1.5 billion. Not only will the schemes...
SPEED UP DEPORTATIONS –May demands of EU!
HOME Secretary Theresa May has called for an overhaul in the EU asylum rules saying the bloc must speed up deportation of ‘economic migrants’...