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Prentis Warns Labour

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UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis yesterday pledged ‘our union will bring together an alliance of all public service unions’ to defend jobs and public...

Health Workers March On Downing Street!

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OVER 250 London NHS doctors, nurses and hospital workers demonstrated through the West End on Saturday, demanding a 15 per cent pay increase and...

College strikes

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‘WE ARE taking action as part of national co-ordinated action for a pay rise of at least 5%,' Julia Roberts, Lambeth University and College...

Labour’s Winter Fuel cut has plunged pensioners into poverty

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WORK and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall openly admitted on Tuesday that the Labour government cut the £300 Winter Fuel Payment to 10 million pensioners...

RMT ‘Will Fight Pay Cap!’

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RMT General Secretary Mick Cash yesterday warned Transport Secretary Grayling against trying to impose a ‘pay cap’ on railworkers. Transport Secretary...

‘Free Sudanese journalist Sadiq Rizaigi now!’ – NUJ

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‘SUDANESE generals must free journalist Sadiq Rizaigi now!’ the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) in the UK and Ireland demanded yesterday joining calls from...
GMB members working for NCP demanding union recognition yesterday outside the Dorchester Hotel in Park Lane

3i UNION BUSTERS – will be beaten says GMB

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‘DESPITE five days of strike action by 55 members of the GMB, NCP, owned by private equity group 3i, is refusing to recognise the...

May’s ‘Insulting’ Pay Offer!

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TWO million out of five million public sector workers are set to get a £2bn ‘below-inflation pay rise’ as one of PM May’s final...

Netanyahu orders 800 new settlement units!

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ISRAELI PM Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday approved 800 new illegal settlement units in the West Bank, determined to drive through the mass expansion while Trump...

Brown Coalition Bid – Ready To Go

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GORDON BROWN offered the Liberals a coalition yesterday evening, and his resignation as PM by the time of the Labour Party conference. Brown, speaking outside...

‘People are supporting our demand to reopen all closed NHS services!’

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‘PEOPLE are really supporting our cause to reopen all the closed services at Ealing Hospital,’ Ealing Southall WRP general election candidate Hassan Zulkifal said...

STAND TOGETHER!–RMT urges Southern rail staff

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THE RMT transport union yesterday called on Southern rail staff to stand together and reject a divisive and tainted company plan to destroy safety...

Australian doctors demand ‘humane stance’

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IN THE British Medical Journal today, a leading doctor is calling on the Australian government to stop constraining doctors in the care of asylum...

Iran drives US and Israel back!

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Iran’s top security body says the powerful Iranian military response as part of True Promise III forced the Israeli regime to halt its aggression unilaterally. The...

Ben-Gvir hands out weapons to illegal settlers!

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ISRAEL’s far right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has authorised personal firearm permits for residents of 18 additional illegal settlements in the occupied West...

Grenfell cladding companies ‘total neglect of safety’ – QC – ‘Flammable cladding must be...

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A BARRISTER for survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire told the public inquiry that a ‘total neglect of safety’ was at the heart of...
Irish workers on a ICTU demonstration show the high unemployment because of the  EU -IMF-ECB imposed cuts that are being carried out by the government

Ireland being robbed by EU

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DUBLIN – Niall Shanahan, Communications Officer of the Impact trade union, has blogged Irish workers that the repayment of Ireland’s bank debt ‘has already...

Doctors’ strike out solid for pay and to save NHS

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Resident doctors and their supporters were on the picket line at St Thomas’ hospital on the first day of their five days of strike...
NUJ and BECTU members during strike action against cuts at the BBC in May, 2005

READY TO STRIKE! – after BBC Director General announces 2,800 redundancies

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Broadcasting and journalism unions BECTU and the NUJ said yesterday they are bracing themselves for the launch of strike action to defend jobs and...

Israel Launches Air, Land And Sea Strikes Against The Palestinians In Gaza

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ISRAEL has launched air, land, and sea strikes, hitting a so-called safe zone in southern Gaza, where thousands of internally displaced Palestinians have sought...
Striking BA mixed fleet cabin crew on the picket line at Heathrow Airport yesterday during their latest 4-day strike over pay

BA profits £1.47bn–cabin crew outraged

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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,...
RMT Tube workers fighting London Underground’s plans to sack 800 workers are threatened by Tory coalition plans to provide free labour for employers

Forced Labour For The Unemployed

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Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith yesterday revealed plans to force unemployed benefit claimants into slave labour. TUC senior policy officer Richard Exell said...

Unions recommend Tata deal – despite pension cuts and no job guarantees

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UNITE, Community and GMB trade unions yesterday called on Tata steel workers at Port Talbot to vote ‘YES’ when the...
Striking Romec workers in Westminster yesterday

Royal Mail Engineers – Three Days Of Strike Action

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‘They are trying to destroy our home life with no discussion. It’s back to the bad old days – at the beck and call...
Young Socialists lobbied the TUC last year and were told that the TUC General Council were still discussing the practicalities of a general strike. They are marching to the TUC Congress in Liverpool from London starting on Tuesday August 19, this time the

Tuc Congress Must Call General Strike!

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‘TODAY’S huge strike of public sector workers expresses the great anger felt throughout the working class at the huge austerity cuts, including pay cuts,...
Gate Gourmet workers sacked by Texas Pacific condemn the sell-out of their struggle by TGWU leader Woodley at last year’s May Day demonstration in London

T&g Backs Sainsbury Family Against Texas Pacific Raiders

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The Transport and General Workers Union yesterday issued a statement backing ‘the Sainsbury family’s hostile position to the private equity bid for the supermarket...

Renationalise the railways – Demand unions as fares hike announced

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RAIL fares are to rise by 1.9% in England, Scotland and Wales it was announced yesterday, with unions, campaigners and Labour leader Jeremy...

Brixton Custody Death Anger

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‘All of us are shocked, numb, totally gutted,’ said an angry Samantha Rigg-David outside Brixton police station on Saturday following the death in custody...

Debt will bring ‘nasty surprises!’ – Chancellor Sunak gets a warning

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WITH MILLIONS of new Universal Credit claimants expected when the Tory ‘job retention’, or ‘furlough’, scheme ends over the next three months, the government...

Palestinian civilians murdered by Israeli artillery and air strikes in Gaza Strip!

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AN unconfirmed number of Palestinian civilians were killed and many more were injured last night in an ongoing Israeli genocide campaign involving airstrikes and...

‘Putting out forest fires with water pistols’

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‘LIKE putting out forest fires with a water pistol,’ is the way the GMB union branded the Taylor Review released yesterday which looked into...

SCRAP ‘RISKY’ NHS BILL – says Unison

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In a report published today, the House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts has warned that the reorganisation of the NHS in England could...
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust was planning to transfer porters, cleaning and catering staff into a subsidiary company. Strike action forced Wigan Council to abandon their plans

NO OUTSOURCING! – BMA slams NHS privatisation

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DOCTORS union the BMA is ‘strongly opposed to the fragmentation and privatisation of the NHS, which is divisive to hardworking NHS staff and could...

BANK’S XMAS BOMBSHELL! – 5% interest rates are on the way

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Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) member Paul Fisher dropped a Christmas bombshell yesterday. He revealed that the Bank’s policymakers would like to see...
Local residents joined the FBU/Justice for Grenfell march last June – soil in the area around the Grenfell Tower has been found to be toxic

Take action over toxins around Grenfell Tower – Lords

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‘WHAT steps will they take in response to concerns over the level of toxins found at the Grenfell Tower site and calls for survivors,...
Unite members were at the lobby in force

10,000 Lobby Against The Cuts!

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UP TO 10,000 workers and youth supported the TUC lobby of Parliament yesterday. Many told News Line that they want trade union action to put...
Nurses rally outside Downing Street demanding an end to cuts and for kicking privateers out of the NHS

‘Reject NHS Wage Cut Offer’– Gmb

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THE GMB is recommending that its members vote to reject the Tory government’s ‘jam tomorrow’ NHS pay offer. It says: ‘For long-serving NHS...
Postal workers and pensioners demonstrate against the closure of Borough Post Office in south east London

10,000 Bt Job Cuts!

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The Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) yesterday said that job cuts in BT ‘must not be met through compulsion’ and pledged it will ‘oppose any...

Junior Doctors Still Demanding 35%

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RESPONDING to yesterday’s recommendation from the Review Body on Doctors’ and Dentists’ Remuneration (DDRB) and the government’s acceptance of that recommendation, the BMA says...

Israel moves to starve the Palestinian people! – workers of the world must act...

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THE ISRAELI government’s move to revoke the licences of 37 international organisations operating in Gaza and the West Bank, including Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors...
FBU demonstration against Fire Service cuts

Fire Service stretched to the limit!

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A VERY STRETCHED fire service has been hard at work throughout New Year’s Eve and the early hours of New Year’s Day, the London...
Doctors stand up to the Home Office refusing to shop confidential information to immigration officials – they refuse to be used as border control – St Mungo’s however have co-operated with immigration squads who target homeless people for deportation

Immigration squads target the homeless

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WHILE helping identify homeless people at risk of freezing to death on the streets, homeless charity St Mungo’s has admitted to co-operating with ...
5,000 residents and NHS workers marched through Nottingham last Saturday demanding that the trade unions take action to defend the NHS

Come Out This Sunday To Stop NHS Logistics Privatisation

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‘If the government doesn’t halt the transfer of NHS Logistics to DHL immediately, then action must be taken by the whole trade union movement...
Yesterday’s picket of Chase farm Hospital with Unison Regional officer DEREK HELYAR (at left of banner)

Unison picket at Chase Farm Hospital

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Unison – the biggest health workers union – yesterday staged a picket of Chase Farm Hospital against the threat to close the hospital’s A&E,...

Tory war on welfare, trade unions must act

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Last week it was revealed that the number of people forced onto the new scheme by the end of next year is now estimated...