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‘We continue to believe that stock transfer is fraught with financial hazards,’ Unite said yesterday after it was announced that Plymouth council tenants have...

‘STRESS testing’ by the Bank of England (BoE) is to disguise the ‘chronic weakness’ of the UK banking system, a new report from the...

Epsom and St Helier Hospitals, two busy Surrey General Hospitals with bustling Accident and Emergency Departments, are to be replaced by a single hospital...

Yesterday human rights group Liberty called on Foreign Secretary Jack Straw to seek assurances in the next 14 days from the USA that it...

FOOD bank donations have soared 1,000% in response to the ‘utterly vile’ Mail on Sunday attack on food banks, a charity revealed yesterday. The Trussell...

RUSSIAN President Dmitry Medvedev warned yesterday that Georgia’s leadership will ‘pay the price’ for its attack on South Ossetia one year ago. He also condemned...

LOCKED-OUT Gate Gourmet workers are on the picket line today, determined to win victory this year. The airline catering company at Heathrow sacked over 700...

GATE GOURMET locked-out workers won a victory yesterday, when they successfully carried out their picket at the Gate Gourmet plant front gate, despite a...

Charities Oxfam, Action Aid and Christian Aid said yesterday that Bush’s pledge to double US aid to Africa was too little, too late. Action Aid...

MPs WILL seek to bring forward legislation to stop Brexit this week, Labour’s shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer has said. He said the plan...

Throughout Saturday night thousands of youth attacked banks and department store buildings as well as police stations in Athens and in many other Greek...

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble said yesterday that the Merkel government was seeking clarity from General Motors on plans for Opel. This came on the...

A LEADING CWU (Communication Workers Union) representative in the Midlands yesterday said a national strike was needed to tackle ‘all our difficulties’. Malcolm Brundrett, CWU...

Chase Farm Hospital Accident & Emergency and Maternity departments must close, the government’s emergency services tsar Professor George Alberti has said. Save Chase Farm campaigners...

The GMB trade union yesterday condemned the huge profits being made out of the poorest customers by gas and electricity companies. New watchdog Consumer Focus,...

THE YS March for Jobs set off yesterday from Coventry after winning great support when they stayed there on Saturday night. Coventry Unison’s branch administrator,...

MOSCOW – In an interview to the Ekho Moskvy radio station as part of the St Petersburg International Economic Forum, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov...

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...

LOCKED-OUT Gate Gourmet workers are calling on the whole trade union movement to support their conference in London on January 29th. On the picket line...

Five US Marines were killed by a roadside bomb in Ramadi, western Iraq, on Saturday, the US military said in a statement yesterday.   Their armoured...

SUPPORT for occupation was rock solid at the monthly North-East London Council of Action picket of Chase Farm Hospital, which was joined by over...

Striking lecturers at Tower Hamlets College in East London yesterday called on other trade unions and colleges to join their Day of Action next...

OVER three million people fear missing rent or mortgage payments this January because of ‘sky high housing costs’, putting them at risk of...

‘WE want people to march with us on May Day,’ Gate Gourmet locked-out worker Parmjit Baines said yesterday. She was on a campaign team that...

HUNDREDS of thousands of teachers, university workers, civil servants and transport workers are striking in the biggest strike day in more than a decade...

IN a major climbdown the BBC trade union leaders have suspended, ie cancelled, next week’s 48-hour BBC strike and will be holding a meeting...

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...

Britain was yesterday accused of ‘caving in to the Saudis’ after the House of Lords overturned the High Court’s ruling that the government broke...

FORMER senior military commanders are runnng a campaign to strengthen the British army for a war in Syria. The former head of the armed forces...

US Defence Secretary Robert Gates on Wednesday hinted at the prospect of a faster withdrawal of US troops as he urged Iraq’s Arab and...

THOUSANDS of postal workers across the UK will be striking and demonstrating on Friday, July 17 against continuing cuts and executive action by...

AN EMERGENCY resolution on the Gate Gourmet dispute is to be heard at the TUC conference in Brighton next week, TGWU full-time officer, Oliver...

MORE South African platinum miners came out on strike yesterday at the Royal Bafokeng Platinum mine outside Rustenburg, in the North West. They gathered...

‘I don’t feel I should apologise,’ said Hayes and Harlington Labour MP John McDonnell yesterday after being ordered out of the House of Commons...

‘WE have got more and more support for our fight to get our jobs back’, locked out Gate Gourmet worker Palmjit Bains told News...

THE London Ambulance Service (LAS) announced yesterday that it plans to cut 890 jobs over the next five years. The LAS, which is making £53...

‘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...

Public Interest Lawyers (PIL) last Friday, 5 February, lodged papers to commence a judicial review on behalf of 66 Iraqis claiming torture and abuse...

Postal workers and their families staged a protest outside the giant Mount Pleasant International Mail Centre in north London yesterday lunchtime, against the planned...

UNITE union officers met with General Motors bosses on Thursday, to discuss the future of the company’s Luton plant. The 1,400 workers at the Kimpton...

FOLLOWING a meeting held yesterday between Royal Mail and the CWU, a Joint Statement was agreed that means detailed discussions will take place on...

BUS workers across London are on strike today over an escalating battle over pay. The 24-hour strike is over the refusal of London’s 18 bus...

AN Athens court has declared ‘illegal’ the 48-hour national strike of the Wind telecom company workers but the strike went ahead on Wednesday and...

THE Royal College of Physicians, the BMA and all the leading medical organisations yesterday demanded the immediate withdrawal of a sudden, and ‘blatantly...

SOME 700 London Underground cleaners scheduled to strike for a living wage and basic working conditions from 6pm today have received a welcome boost...