Unite urges BA staff to accept pay cut

0
THE UNITE union has sent a ‘GSS UPDATE 17 SEPT’ to its below-wing ground staff members working at Heathrow to try and persuade them...
BA cabin crew celebrating their High Court victory in May condemned BA management ‘bullying’

Resume BA strike action–urge cabin crew

0
‘WE WANT the strike action reinstated immediately and extended, so that we can defeat Walsh’s union-busting operation once and for all,’ British Airways Stewards...

Abu Ghraib Contractor Producing Drones For Usa

0
THE defence contractor which reached a settlement with alleged victims of torture in the notorious prison of Abu Ghraib is now again at the...

2,450 sacked by email – 214 Dorothy Perkins, Wallis and Burton shops shut

0
TORY PM Johnson must wait until there are fewer than 1,000 Covid infections a day before lifting lockdown, NHS bosses and scientists have warned. The...
Nurses on the march against any pay cap – they are certain to make their point very forcibly at September’s EGM

Nurses fury over pay deal! – EGM called for September 28th

0
THE RCN Council has called an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) which will take place on 28/09/18 at 11.00 am at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre,...

STRIKE ACTION SPREADS TO 68 UNIS – more than 50,000 staff mandated to strike

0
STRIKE action at UK universities spreads to 68 institutions today as more than 50,000 staff are mandated to strike and well over a million...

Stormont Crisis – Sinn Fein, Robinson Clash

0
By John Coulter, Irish Political Journalist ANOTHER Stormont crisis looms in the North, but is this latest ‘storm’ merely clever sabre rattling or the warning...
Striking Lewisham Southwark College lecturers are determined to win a pay rise after years of no increments

Lewisham College 2-day strike Lecturers on poverty pay

0
‘THE MONEY’S there. We want our share!’ said striking lecturers at Lewisham Southwark College in southeast London yesterday morning. Members of the University and...

Parliamentary Democracy RIP! – Stewart wants a ‘Citizens Assembly’

0
BORIS Johnson came under fire yesterday for boycotting last night’s Channel 4 debate between the candidates for the Tory party leadership and the position...

‘IT’S GOING TO BE PAINFUL!’ Cuts must start this year – King to Osborne

0
Bank of England governor Mervyn King yesterday warned that the next few years are ‘going to be painful’ and that ‘markets would expect a...

Lancs biomedics refuse shift work – as part of month-long strike

0
BIOMEDICAL scientists, who have been on the frontline of Covid-19 testing at a Lancashire NHS trust, will stop doing night, weekend and late shifts...

Brown Rejects Withdrawal Timetable

0
Gordon Brown has ruled out setting a timetable for the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq, saying they still have ‘an important job to...
Council workers on the picket line in Norwich during the one-day public sector general strike over pensions in March this year

Council Unions Want 5% Rise

0
More than 1.5 million local government workers are to ask for a five per cent pay rise in the new year. Three trade...
LINDSAY COOKE, from ‘Mums4Medics’ making her point outside Portcullis House, Westminster, yesterday

7 Treatment Centres Axed

0
Public sector union UNISON yesterday welcomed a government move to scrap six projected private treatment and diagnostic centres. As well, the Department of Health (DoH)...
Over 10,000 workers and their families took part in the annual Tolpuddle Martyrs Anniversary March on Sunday, remembering the famous struggle by Dorset agricultural labourers for trade union rights, and expressing their anger at the crisis-ridden Tory coa

Net Closes In On Cameron

0
PRIME Minister Cameron came under increasing pressure yesterday to follow the two top London police officers who have quit in the past two days,...

Tories Introducing Emergency Powers!

0
THE TORY government will introduce ‘Emergency Powers’ tomorrow, Tuesday, which are to be voted on in the House of Commons on Thursday, Health Secretary...

The prince and the oligarch

0
AN investment bank, led by an oligarch who collaborated with Prince Charles on charity work, managed a network of offshore companies moving billions out...

NO CHOICE BUT TO STRIKE! – teachers ready for national action

0
THE two largest teachers’ unions, the NASUWT and the NUT, representing nine out of ten teachers, yesterday announced two more regional strikes, rallies and...
Greek workers march during the General Strike against austerity measures – they are ready for revolution in 2012

‘SACRIFICES NEEDED IN 2012’ – EU workers are told by leaders

0
German Chancellor Merkel, in her sombre New Year message yesterday, warned 2012 will be worse than 2011. Merkel said Europe was experiencing its ‘most...
Teachers dressed up as Greek army officers along with the emblem of the military junta of 1967-74 outside the Greek Parliament, after the Greek government’s decision to put teachers under the ‘state emergency civil conscription’ laws’

Greek Teachers Fight Conscription!

0
Over 15,000 teachers and their supporters responded to the call issued by the Executive of the State Secondary Teachers’ Trade Union OLME and staged...

‘we Are Marching Forward To Victory’

0
THE locked out Gate Gourmet workers held their mass picket of the TGWU regional office in Hillingdon yesterday, marking the deadline for signing the...
GPs and their supporters with their main banner showing that they are determined to fight to maintain and defend the NHS

‘GPs will have to strike to save our surgeries!’

0
OVER 200 patients, health professionals, union members and campaigners marched through east London yesterday against cuts to GP surgeries which threaten the closure of...

Public support for nurses rising!

0
PUBLIC support for a nurses strike has risen six months after first industrial action. A new poll by YouGov for the Royal College of Nursing...
The Young Socialists lobby of the TUC Congress  yesterday afternoon showed delegates that youth would never submit to being cheap labourers and were demanding a general strike to bring down the coalition

‘Deliver General Strike’ urges PCS leader Godrich

0
TUC delegates at the opening of the Congress in Brighton yesterday supported the Young Socialists lobby which demanded ‘Youth Demand a Future, Youth Demand...

GMB warn of furlough cliff edge

0
‘INSTEAD of driving us off a furlough cliff edge later this year, the government should provide continued support for employers,’ the GMB union said...

‘The Police Have Tried To Silence US!’

0
OVER 3,000 people massed around the Clapham Common bandstand on Saturday afternoon for a vigil in respect of Sarah Everard who was abducted and...

14 Marines Killed In Al-Anbar

0
Fourteen US Marines and their civilian translator were killed by a roadside bomb blast in north-western Iraq early yesterday. The Marines were killed...

THORNBERRY FAVOURS ‘PEOPLE’S VOTE’ – unless May agrees to ‘Six Tests’

0
LABOUR’S SHADOW foreign secretary Emily Thornberry joined hands yesterday with resigned Tory Transport Minister Jo Johnson in declaring for a second referendum to reverse...

Al Shifa hospital runs out of fuel today!

0
THE al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza’s biggest hospital, will run out of fuel today, or tomorrow at the latest, with 35,000 men, women and children crammed...

Labour Is Planning Big Welfare Cuts!

0
LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves is planning to initiate a new regime of widespread welfare cuts, throwing thousands of sick, disabled and mentally ill off...

Labour Right Wing Plans For Two Parties!

0
TORY MP Andrew Bridgen yesterday claimed that Labour MPs who expect Jeremy Corbyn to retain the leadership of the party by winning...
The Royal College of Midwives taking strike action last year for the first time in their history

‘NO COMPROMISE ON SAFE STAFFING LEVELS’ says RCN

0
HOSPITALS have been told by the Tory government’s regulator to only fill job vacancies that are ‘essential’, raising fears amongst midwives, doctors and nurses...

Tnt–2,000 Jobs Threat

0
WHISTL, formerly known as TNT, has suspended its door-to-door delivery service in London, Liverpool and Manchester and is threatening to sack 2,000 workers, it...

Johnson puts UK military at the disposal of Zelensky!

0
TORY PM Johnson visited the Ukrainian capital on Saturday and walked through the deserted streets of Kiev alongside President Volodymyr Zelensky, flanked by machine...

Starmer Volunteers To Work In The National Interest!

0
LABOUR Party leader Sir Keir Starmer volunteered yesterday to ‘work with the Prime Minister in the national interest.’ Appearing on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show,...
Demonstrators stage a protest in Trafalgar Square demanding the release of Binyam Mohamed from Guantanamo Bay

TORTURE EXPOSED! – Binyam Mohamed case sent to Attorney General

0
Lawyers for Guantánamo prisoner Binyam Mohamed yesterday welcomed news that the UK government has referred his case to the Attorney General. The Home Office is...

WORKERS BRING DOWN CAMERON –with massive vote against EU

0
YESTERDAY British capitalism was rocked to its core as the consequences of the massive Brexit vote to leave the EU emerged. Tory leader Cameron...
Athens University administration workers and their children marching on Saturday

7th week on strike for Greek admin workers

0
ADMINISTRATION workers at eight Greek universities are continuing their strike for the seventh consecutive week against the government’s plan to sack some 1,500 of...

Murdoch ‘unfit To Manage’

0
RUPERT Murdoch ‘is not a fit person to exercise the stewardship of a major international company’, the Parliamentary Culture Committee reported yesterday. The committee was...

Tories post-election cuts being planned!

0
THE UK Treasury has told senior Whitehall officials that a post-2015 election government will have to make £25bn-£30bn worth of spending cuts. Cuts are being...

700,000 London families plunged into fuel poverty

0
THREE quarters of a million families in London will be plunged into fuel poverty after energy bills spiral by as much as 50% in...
Striking firefighters at Holloway Fire Station, Hornsey Road on the picket line yesterday mid-day

Government is provoking firefighters strikes!

0
FIREFIGHTERS taking strike action this weekend are angry that a leaked letter reveals that the government consciously provoked the action rather than negotiate...
Demonstration in May this year for the release of Babar Ahmad – Home Secretary Charles Clarke has recently ordered his extradition to the US on trumped up terror charges which carry a death sentence

Gate Gourmet Admits 3-Stage Deal Defeated!

0
GATE GOURMET, the firm that locked out over 700 of its workers in a pre-planned onslaught on August 10, admitted yesterday that the locked...
Greek workers battle with riot police

Greece under Franco- German occupation!

0
THE European Commission has formed an enlarged Task Force of over 100 German and French technocrats to oversee the implementation of the conditions attached...
UCU strikers fighting to defend their pensions were joined by students yesterday on a lively march through central London

Strike Until We Win! – Lecturers

0
OXFORD and Cambridge lecturers joined a three thousand-strong march in central London yesterday called by the London Region UCU on the 13th day of...