Croydon NHS demands Covid sick pay!
WORKERS at Croydon Hospital are staging a protest on January 31st to demand Covid sick pay. Porters and cleaners at the south London hospital are...
Truss Quits – TUC Must Call A General Strike To Kick Out The Tories!
PM TRUSS resigned yesterday afternoon after a meeting with the Chairman of the Tory MPs backbench 1922 Committee, Sir Graham Brady. Making her announcement, she...
MASS PICKET OF HIGH COURT – as Chagos Islanders fight Blair Appeal
TWO hundred Chagos Islanders and their supporters descended on the Court of Appeal in London yesterday, demanding that the court upholds their right to...
50,000 Greek Workers March For Palestine
OVER 50,000 students, youth and workers marched through the Athens city centre last Saturday to the American Embassy and then to the Israeli Embassy. They...
January conference for locked-out Gate Gourmet workers
DEFIANT Gate Gourmet locked out workers were standing on the picket line in the freezing cold yesterday determined to win their jobs back and...
‘FIGHT FOR EVERY JOB!’ say Gate Gourmet pickets
ANGRY Gate Gourmet strikers told News Line yesterday that Transport and General Workers’ Union head of civil aviation, Brendan Gold, had visited them on...
‘STUDENT COMMUTERS’ Poorer students forced to live at home and commute
STUDENTS from poorer backgrounds are being forced to become ‘student commuters’, living in their home town and then commuting back and forth on a...
Entire families being evicted!
BARNET tenants are holding a ‘Fun Day’ tomorrow to highlight the community they are at risk of losing if Annington Homes continue to evict...
‘DISENFRANCHISED!’ – Workers dumped as Labour supports Tories
Labour’s support for the Tory-LibDem coalition’s public sector pay freeze leaves public sector workers ‘disenfranchised’, the leader of the biggest trade union and biggest...
Bandit capitalism goes bust
THE UNITE trade union is demanding an urgent meeting with Ernst & Young, Interserve’s administrators, after Friday’s announcement that the company is being forced...
NEWS LINE ANNIVERSARY RALLY: SUNDAY 2nd DECEMBER
The News Line Anniversary Rally takes place on Sunday December 2nd from 2-6pm at Skeel Lecture Theatre, Queen Mary university, Mile End, London E1 For...
Gatwick Airport Faces Default!
GATWICK Airport is in talks with bank lenders to try to avoid defaulting on multi-million pound loans, as Covid restrictions contribute to huge losses. The...
Gp Head Slams ‘Listening’ Stunt
THE GPs magazine Pulse has revealed that both the Royal College of GPs (RCGP) and the BMA’s GP Committee have been excluded from the...
Willetts resign! Demand UEA students
Hundreds of students at University of East Anglia (UAE), Norwich held a mass protest against the visit of Universities Minister Willetts on Thursday. UAE Student...
Unite supports the pro-Palestine boycott movement against Israel
UNITE has declared its support for the pro-Palestine Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against the Israeli regime, condemning the new legislation barring institutions...
‘Don’t cut our bursaries!’ say student nurses
‘BURSARIES or bust! Jeremy bite the dust!’ chanted over a thousand student nurses as they marched to Downing Street on Saturday in their campaign...
Malkinson Accuses Manchester Police Of ‘Cover-Up!’
ANDY MALKINSON, 57, a man who was wrongfully convicted and jailed for rape, has shockingly revealed that he may be required to pay thousands...
Nearly 100 Palestinians Killed In Israeli Air Raids
‘ISRAEL is the one who started this when they assassinated (commander of Hamas’ military wing) Ahmed Jabari. Hamas didn’t start the issue,’ Hamas political...
Slashing Winter Fuel Payment is a death sentence!
trade unions and charities yesterday slammed as a death sentence for millions of pensioners, government plans to slash the annual Winter Fuel Payment by...
Tanks and commandos storm al-Shifa Hospital
ISRAELI occupation forces (IOF) stormed Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City at dawn yesterday, kidnapping dozens of injured, displaced people, forcing them outside undressed, blindfolded...
DEFEND HINCHINBROOKE HOSPITAL – 1,300 doctors, nurses, and health workers’ jobs at stake
Doctors, nurses and health workers will take to the streets with local people today, Saturday 4 October, to defend the future of Hinchingbrooke Hospital,...
THE POLICE ACTED LIKE ARMED ROBBERS – they will do it to another family...
THE two brothers released without charge after the massive state terror operation in Forest Gate told a press conference yesterday how they thought they...
Suspend Ofsted inspections demands teachers union NEU – Exams for 2021 cancelled in Wales...
‘SUSPEND Ofsted inspections’ demanded Dr Mary Bousted, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union (NEU) yesterday, responding to Ofsted’s second report into the...
Maduro condemns us energy war
VENEZUELAN President Nicolas Maduro says the United States has declared an ‘electric energy war’ against his country amid a widespread blackout that has left...
‘NO DEAL WITH EU’ –demand Greek workers & youth
THOUSANDS of workers and students took part in marches held in several Greek cities last Thursday evening against any agreement which will continue the...
Vaccines for 12-15s – boosters for 50+ says Johnson
‘I WANT to set out our plan for Covid this winter and in many ways the situation we face is even more challenging than...
Gate Gourmet Workers Battle On
LOCKED-OUT Gate Gourmet workers were campaigning yesterday for their mass picket next Sunday 22nd January between 11am and 1pm and their conference in London...
‘IF THERE IS NO LEGISLATION ON MONDAY – SEIZE SHIPS ON TUESDAY’ – John...
OVER 500 trade unionists gathered outside the RMT headquarters on the waterfront in Dover, yesterday with red RMT flags and union banners after 800...
Public Sector pay freeze ‘A kick in the teeth for millions!’ say GMB
PUBLIC SECTOR employees, many of whom are essential Covid-19 workers, should not be subject to a continuing pay freeze from a government that has...
NHS FRONTLINE SERVICES CUT! says Royal College of Nursing
Almost 10,000 NHS posts in England, the equivalent of a large teaching hospital, have been earmarked for cuts, the Royal College of Nursing revealed...
Angry Visteon Workers Reject Offer!
‘WE ARE deeply insulted and more determined than ever to carry on the fight,’ Enfield Visteon factory Unite convenor Kevin Nolan told News Line...
Attempt to bring in strike ban bill defeated
AN ATTEMPT yesterday by the Tories to introduce a bill which would ban the right to strike in critical services, was overwhelmingly defeated...
HOUSING CRISIS! Middle classes will be on the streets
HOMELESSNESS is spreading to the middle class, homelessness charity Crisis is warning, as mass sackings of public sector workers along with the government’s onslaught...
33 INSURGENTS FREED – in daring raid near Baquba
Iraqi insurgents freed 33 of their comrades in a daring pre-dawn raid on a puppet authority jail north of Baghdad yesterday. At least 18 puppet...
Sinn Féin win 37 seats in Irish election!
SINN Féin was celebrating the results of the Irish elections yesterday which saw them as the second biggest party, winning 37 seats – an...
SUNAK’S FLEXIBLE FURLOUGH! – to bring in wage and job cuts & part-time working
‘THE FURLOUGH scheme can not continue indefinitely,’ Tory Chancellor Sunak said yesterday at the Downing Street daily briefing, announcing that by September, the employer...
CWU BT Group to ballot all members for action!
THE Telecoms & Financial Services Conference voted yesterday to serve legal notice to BT Group of the union’s intention to ballot all appropriate members...
Angry firefighters call for much bigger action!
FIREFIGHTERS throughout England and Wales walked out of their fire stations at noon yesterday at the beginning of the Fire Brigades Union National Pensions...
Strikebreakers are being organised for the teachers strike!
NATIONAL Union of Teachers (NUT) representatives yesterday condemned the government’s drive to organise strike-breaking during their national strike on March 26.
In revised ‘advice on...
115,000 postal workers out today!
115,000 postal workers are out today in a 24 hour strike for a ‘dignified, proper pay rise’, the Communication Workers Union (CWU) said yesterday. Members...
HEADING FOR MAJOR CRISIS! – says BMA’s ‘London’s NHS on the Brink’
Hospital services in London will be closed and down-graded as healthcare in the capital heads towards ‘a major financial and organisational crisis’, a...
Japan Shut Down
Japan’s nuclear crisis intensified yesterday as authorities raced to combat the threat of multiple reactor meltdowns, while investors feared a share market crash. More than...
Binmen win legal action! – Labour Council ordered to withdraw redundancies
THE UNITE union yesterday called on Birmingham city Labour council to honour the ACAS agreement and resolve the Birmingham bin dispute after the High...
Fury at Labour’s attack on disabled
DEMONSTRATIONS are taking place outside Parliament from 1.00pm today, and in towns and cities around the country, as the Labour government seeks to pass...
Closure Threat To ‘failing’ NHS Trusts!
The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday expressed concern over the threat of closure hanging over a number of NHS hospitals. This followed data published yesterday...