Greek General Strike Called For Next Wednesday
THE Greek right-wing government have intensified their ‘reforms programme’ as trade unions are preparing a general strike set for next Wednesday 12 December. Last...
Tax Hikes & Cuts Come In
TODAY, April 1, the first day of the new financial year, a barrage of vicious cuts and hikes come in attacking the living standards...
ROYAL MAIL SHARES ISSUE SHELVED – We’ve won a victory says London Region CWU
‘The Royal Mail employee shares scheme shouldn’t be shelved, it should be scrapped altogether,’ Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) London Regional Secretary John Denton told...
Cameron won’t fire Hunt
RUPERT Murdoch was questioned at the Leveson Inquiry yesterday about meetings held with prime minister Cameron before and after News Corporation’s June 2010 takeover...
‘READY TO STRIKE’ –angry Wolverhampton NHS Trust workers reject over 300 job...
UNISON yesterday backed ‘extremely angry’ members at New Cross Hospital, Wolverhampton, who have voted in a consultative ballot for strike action in defence of...
Assange High Court Victory
Julian Assange, head of Wikileaks, won a victory at the High Court yesterday with its ruling that he has the right to appeal to...
Inquiry Into Mi5 Death Squads In North Of Ireland
AN INVESTIGATION is being launched which will examine the activities of an MI5 agent known as ‘Stakeknife’ who has been linked to 50 murders...
‘Under Immense And Continuous Stress!’ – Doctors Tell Bma
IN TESTIMONIES provided to the BMA, one doctor said that ‘we are under immense and continuous stress’. While another doctor said: ‘What has been...
‘THE WHOLE COUNTRY IS CASUALISED’ – Woodley admits TUC responsibility
Delegates voted unanimously for Composite 3: ‘Agency Workers’ at the TUC Congress yesterday calling for ‘legislation to outlaw discrimination against agency workers’. It called on...
Luton workers given 10 minutes to sign away rights
WORKERS attending the last night shift at the GM van plant in Luton on Thursday reacted with anger when they were given individual letters...
STAND FIRM! Airport trades unionists urge Gate Gourmet workers
LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers got great support yesterday as they campaigned at the TGWU office in Hillingdon to defeat the sell-out Compromise Agreement. Mohammed...
Growing Anger Over Threat To Chase Farm
‘You have to fight for what is right’, Chase Farm Hospital worker Paulette Wright told News Line at the North East London Council of...
Blair’s Market – For Both Health And Education
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...
Cameron advisor ‘a criminal’
PM’S QUESTIONS were yesterday centred on Cameron’s ‘profound apology’ for hiring Coulson as his press officer. Labour leader Miliband opened by saying: ‘For four years...
14 Marines Killed In Al-Anbar
Fourteen US Marines and their civilian translator were killed by a roadside bomb blast in north-western Iraq early yesterday. The Marines were killed...
‘CALL A PUBLIC SECTOR STRIKE’ – says London CWU rep
FIVE thousand Royal Mail workers in north, east and south-east London are striking today, after voting overwhelmingly in ballots to fight ‘executive actions’ by...
BANKS QUARTER PER CENT RATE CUT – Bosses warn ‘economic climate is worsening’
Yesterday’s Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) decision to cut interest rates from 4.75 per cent to 4.5 per cent, provoked worried reactions. The...
‘Bring Down The Tories!’
OVER 200 workers and youth marched to the 44th News Line anniversary rally yesterday afternoon with flags flying and slogans calling for the Tory-led...
COVER UP! – no action over the killing of journalist Terry Lloyd
The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) yesterday condemned the British state’s refusal to prosecute US Marines over the ‘unlawful killing’ of ITN journalist Terry...
GM defer Open Vauxhall choice – as GM Luton workers are kept in dark
With just five weeks until the German elections, Chancellor Merkel yesterday expressed her anger and frustration at the failure last Friday of General Motors...
REJECT THE DEAL! – CWU rep urges at Gate Gourmet anniversary rally
‘Reject this agreement and carry on with the industrial action,’ Billy Colvill, CWU rep from south east London, yesterday urged the union’s postal executive,...
Bush And Blair Pledge ‘war On Terror’ Will Continue
At least thirty-three people were killed and hundreds more injured after a series of explosions hit the London Underground network and a double-decker bus...
£8.3bn spent on Afghan war – 500 more troops to be sent
Prime Minister Brown yesterday announced another 500 UK troops are being sent to Afghanistan. In a statement to MPs in the House of Commons on...
26 FE colleges to strike – recall TUC & call a general strike urges...
Staff at 26 Further Education (FE) colleges will take ten days of strike action starting on Monday 26 September demanding ‘a significant pay rise’,...
Labour Split Threat
EX-HOME Secretary Alan Johnson threatened a Labour split yesterday if Labour Party members voted to have Ed Miliband as Labour Party leader. He claimed the...
Blair Loses Torture Appeal
‘The Court of Appeal yesterday handed down a landmark judgment about the torture and abuse of Iraqi civilians in detention with UK Armed Forces...
Met Police Guilty In de Menezes Killing
THE Cousin of Jean Charles de Menezes, Erionaldo da Silva said yesterday: ‘I have spoken to Jean Charles’ mother Maria, in Brazil and she...
NHS CRISIS – hits Chase Farm, North Middx & Grantham
The leading orthopaedic surgeon at Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield has handed in his notice after 30 years in the NHS, because ‘all managers...
‘Reinstatement For All – And No Victimisations’
TALKS are taking place between Gate Gourmet management and the Transport and General Workers Union today. Locked out Gate Gourmet workers told News Line on...
‘We’re here for battle with our union’
‘WE’RE here to meet the general secretary Tony Woodley regarding the mis-handling of the dispute with an anti-union employer, ICTS UK,’ sacked Belfast International...
‘The whole airport must come out’ demand Gate Gourmet workers
‘THE whole airport must come out to win our jobs back and to defeat the victimisation of BA workers who took sympathy strike action...
Renationalise Harland & Wolff!
AFTER the Scottish government announced they will nationalise Ferguson Marine shipyard, trade unions are calling on the UK government to safeguard jobs and skills...
Four Weeks On Hunger Strike
Dramatic events are unfolding in Athens as the 287 immigrant workers’ hunger strike completes four weeks today, Monday, 21 February. Four hunger strikers have been...
TORTURE CONTINUES! ‘IT’S NOT ALL OVER’ – states Binyam Mohamed
‘Many remain in those torture chambers’, just-returned Guantánamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed said in a statement read out at a London press conference...
Palestine erupts!
ISRAELI police clashed with Palestinian worshippers inside Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound yesterday. Palestinian guards of the mosque said dozens of Israeli officers raided the compound,...
Greek Port Workers Strike
GREEK port workers staged a 100% solid national strike on Thursday against the privatisation plans of the SYRIZA (Coalition of the Radical Left) and...
KEEP PROFITEERS OUT OF THE NHS – says BMA and Unison
The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday condemned moves to allow a private company to take over the running of Hinchingbrooke NHS hospital in Huntingdon,...
Unilever Pensions Strike
UNILEVER workers are standing firm despite strong-arm tactics by the employer designed to destroy their resistance to plans to end their final salary pension...
GATE GOURMET WORKERS DEMAND TUC ACTION – ‘to win all our jobs back’
A LARGE number of sacked Gate Gourmet catering workers from Heathrow were on their way to Brighton to lobby the Trades Union Congress early...
‘Killings on a daily basis’ in Libya
Over forty Libyans demonstrated at Downing Street on Thursday evening to express their anger at the British government’s role in the war on their...
‘Stop state-sponsored racism!’ – Take ‘hate vans’ off the streets
DOREEN Lawrence, the mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence, has asserted that ‘racial profiling’ is being used in immigration police stop-and-check operations. She spoke out...
French Rail Strike Action Continues
French transport unions yesterday extended their nationwide strike for another 24 hours, after bringing the train, bus and metro services to a halt on...
‘I’LL SEE YOU IN COURT’ – Galloway challenges Senate witchhunters
Respect MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, George Galloway has thrown down a challenge to the US Senate homeland security committee to charge him...
‘ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!’ – tens of thousands to march through Dublin
Hundreds of occupying Waterford Crystal workers, members of the Unite trade union, will be joining today’s national demonstration in Dublin. It has been called by...
KEEP CHASE FARM OPEN – No to polyclinic, urges picket
PASSING cars tooted their horns, as campaigners shouted ‘No polyclinics – save our hospitals’ outside Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield yesterday. The north-east London Council...