DEVON NHS PCT CRISIS! – all 5,000 employers offered offered voluntary redundancy
All five thousand Devon Primary Care Trust (PCT) employees across the county have been sent a letter offering voluntary redundancy as a cost-cutting measure....
Tower Hamlets Day Of Action Called
Striking lecturers at Tower Hamlets College in East London yesterday called on other trade unions and colleges to join their Day of Action next...
HEAVY CASUALTIES! – Thirteen Israeli soldiers killed and twelve wounded in Bint Jubayl
Hezbollah fighters yesterday inflicted heavy casualties on Israeli forces in fierce fighting in the town of Bint Jubayl two miles north of the...
‘LICENCE TO PRINT MONEY’ – £1.8bn for consultants as thousands sacked
The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) this morning accused the government of giving management consultants a licence to print money at the taxpayer’s...
Greek Workers March Against Police
Throughout Saturday night thousands of youth attacked banks and department store buildings as well as police stations in Athens and in many other Greek...
GENERAL STRIKE ON DECEMBER 9th – when parliament votes on fees rise
THE Young Socialists Students Society yesterday called for a general strike on December 9th when the House of Commons will be voting on increasing...
RMT CALL FOR GENERAL STRIKE – to confront Trade Union Act!
THERE was an RMT call for a general strike to confront the Trade Union Act and all anti-union laws at at the TUC Congress...
Replacement workers were brought into Gate Gourmet transport department
GATE Gourmet managers yesterday continued to present their witness statements on the third day of the sacked Gate Gourmet workers employment tribunal in...
‘WORKERS RISING UP!’ – ATUA National Secretary tells conference
‘WE NEED a general strike to bring the government down and go forward to a workers government and socialism.’ This is what All Trades Union...
Don’t stop our hardship payments demand locked-out GG workers
Locked out Gate Gourmet workers were on the picket line in the open air at Heathrow Airport yesterday. They were angry that the leaders of...
BA PENSIONS CRISIS ‘HIGH NOON’ – warns GMB trade union
The GMB trade union warned yesterday of a ‘high noon’ over British Airways (BA) pensions crisis and the big cuts it wants to make. Ed...
‘ON OUR WAY TO VICTORY’ say Gate Gourmet workers
LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers were yesterday campaigning outside the Transport and General Workers Union regional office in Hillingdon, near Heathrow Airport. On Saturday the...
ST HELIER STRIKE WARNING – after Trust debt leaps to £41 million
Epsom and St Helier Hospitals, two busy Surrey General Hospitals with bustling Accident and Emergency Departments, are to be replaced by a single hospital...
Mubarak ‘steps down!’ – swept aside by the revolution
President Hosni Mubarak has stepped down and fled from the capital, Cairo. Vice-President Omar Suleiman announced on Egyptian state television yesterday afternoon: ‘In these grave...
Defiant Locked Out Gate Gourmet Workers Picket Tgwu Office
‘OUR anniversary march and rally in Southall on Sunday August 20 is very important. ‘We will show our unity and strength and we want everyone...
UK back to Victorian times
OXFAM warned yesterday that the ‘UK could return to inequality levels not seen since Victorian times’. Government rhetoric about ‘making work pay’ – used to...
No Benefit Cuts!
campaigners lobbied the House of Lords yesterday demanding ‘no going back to Dickensian days’. They also chanted ‘Defend Child Benefit for all’, ‘Oppose all benefit...
BA Pensions Ballot!
Details emerged yesterday of a deal, yet to be agreed by workers, which means the end of final salary pensions at British Airways. The TGWU...
Hackney Bus Workers Want Decent Pay!
BUS workers were in high spirits yesterday on the second Friday out of four consecutive Fridays of strike action over low pay and management...
FBU Angry Over Cuts
FIREFIGHTERS joined members of Unison and GMB trade unions yesterday in an angry lobby of a London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority (LFEPA) meeting...
UNIONS MAKE TERMINAL 5 DEAL – but refuse to reveal the details
Trade union officials were yesterday giving out mixed messages about a new staffing levels agreement with British Airways for the move to Terminal 5...
Bovingdon Battle!
HERTFORDSHIRE fire crews are appalled at the way two community action groups in Bovingdon and Radlett are being treated by local politicians over the...
Greek riot police condemned!
THE leaders of the Greek journalists and photoreporters’ trade unions have demanded that the police leadership stops its violence against press workers and releases...
‘Summary Powers!’
Prime Minister Blair yesterday unveiled his viciously anti-working class ‘Respect Action Plan’ at a press conference. Announcing his ‘ActionPlan’ Blair said: ‘Anti-Social Behaviour law imposed...
Unison delegates want action
UNISON members are gathering at the union’s national delegate conference in Manchester today, determined to defend their jobs, pay, pensions and public services. They will...
PLYMOUTH HOUSING TRANSFER – ‘fraught with dangers’ warns Unite
‘We continue to believe that stock transfer is fraught with financial hazards,’ Unite said yesterday after it was announced that Plymouth council tenants have...
1,800 will spend Christmas in an immigration detention centre!
UK GOVERNMENT figures show that over 1,800 people in Britain will spend the Christmas holiday incarcerated in immigration detention centres, prompting calls to end...
Greek Workers March Against Merkel!
OVER 60,000 workers and youth in angry and militant mood participated on Tuesday afternoon at a rally in front of the Vouli (Greek parliament)...
‘If Iran is attacked it will be all-out war!’ – warns Zarif
IRAN’S foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif warned yesterday that any attack on his country after a series of missile strikes on Saudi Arabia’s oil...
Week-long Ealing Medirest strike going strong!
THERE was a strong picket of 80 striking GMB domestic workers, porters and caterers at Ealing Hospital yesterday morning. The workers were in their fourth...
NO CONFIDENCE IN HUNT! BMA votes for repeal of Health & Social Care Act
ANGRY doctors yesterday delivered a vote of No Confidence against Tory Health Secretary Hunt. Doctors at the British Medical Association’s (BMA) Annual Representative Meeting (ARM)...
NHS CRISIS – SEND THE PATIENTS TO INDIA says Hewitt
TRADE unions yesterday slammed plans for NHS trusts to make money out of India. This came after the former disgraced Labour health secretary Patricia Hewitt...
Keep Mount Pleasant Nursery Open
Postal workers and their families staged a protest outside the giant Mount Pleasant International Mail Centre in north London yesterday lunchtime, against the planned...
Inflation Up To 5.2%
inflation hit 5.2% in September, the highest rate since 1992, rising from 4.7% in August, according to the government’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) figures...
Hezbollah Battles Zionists
Hezbollah resistance fighters killed two Israeli soldiers and wounded seventeen others as a massive Israeli invasion force was halted on the outskirts of Bint...
NHS Trust withholds rent over fire safety – Patients evacuated from two wards
CORNWALL Partnership Foundation Trust is withholding rent payments to NHS Property Services to force it to take urgent action over fire safety. Patients have had...
Gate Gourmet Pickets Join Terminal 5 Strikers
WHILST out campaigning yesterday, Gate Gourmet workers, now locked out for almost six months, spoke out very angrily about the unsigned letter just received...
Trust Boss Quits Over Dangerous Targets
The British Medical Association yesterday repeated concerns about government targets that ‘compromise patient safety’, in the wake of the resignation of United Lincolnshire Hospitals...
XAVIER GOURMET LOCKS OUT 200 WORKERS – says workers must claim their money from...
A GATE Gourmet supplier locked out 200 workers in Heston, one mile from Heathrow Airport, yesterday. Xavier Gourmet, which was trading up until seven months...
King And Darling Take Panic Measures!
‘A painful adjustment faces the global banking sector over the next few months as losses are revealed and new capital is raised to repair...
BROWN’S 2.5% VAT CUT – borrowing to be increased by £150bn
Chancellor Darling is set to announce a 2.5 per cent cut in Value Added Tax (VAT) from 17.5 per cent to 15 per cent...
Worthing NHS Cuts Opposed!
Two Worthing Hospital intensive care consultants have produced their own ‘Fit for whose Future?’ report, opposing plans to axe the hospital’s emergency services. Dr Richard...
Over Five Years In The Black Hole Of Bagram
‘These two men have been held in appalling conditions for five years, and for all that time the British government chose to do nothing,’...
Angry ARM turns on BMA leaders
BMA leaders narrowly escaped censure for their lack of leadership during the struggle against the Health and Social Care Bill yesterday, when 44% of...
Sacked Athens cleaners daily pickets
THOUSANDS of workers and students rally every evening to the ERT building (State TV and Radio corporation) in an Athens suburb demanding the withdrawal...