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Sacked Visteon workers, retirees, and a delegation of sacked Gate Gourmet workers lobbying Unite head office yesterday

UNITE LOBBIED – by sacked Visteon and Gate Gourmet workers

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Over 80 sacked Visteon workers, Visteon retirees and a delegation of sacked Gate Gourmet workers lobbied the Unite union head office in Holborn, central...

Russia accuses the West of using sanctions to steal its gold and foreign exchange...

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RUSSIA has accused Western countries of using sanctions to steal the country’s gold and foreign exchange reserves amid the raging war in Ukraine. Asked about...

Tory plan to replace school meals with ‘25p breakfasts’ slammed!

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TORY plans to replace free school lunches with free ‘breakfasts’, costed at 25p, for primary school children have been lambasted by the...

Leicester faces localised lock-down!

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HOME SECRETARY Priti Patel yesterday warned that the city of Leicester may be facing a localised lockdown after a rise in coronavirus cases. She said...
Labour leader CORBYN marching with steelworkers in London in May

Labour Right Wing Ready For Breakaway!

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150 LABOUR MPs are plotting to form a breakaway party codenamed ‘Continuity Labour’ when Jeremy Corbyn wins the leadership battle. Pontypridd Labour MP Stephen Kinnock...

Mortgage holders and public sector workers to be hit and hit again – say...

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PRIME Minister Sunak made clear in his interview on the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme yesterday morning that mortgage holders and public sector...

Greek hospital stoppage

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GREEK state hospitals workers and doctors are fighting back against a government vaccination law which has led to unpaid ‘suspension from work’ of some...

3rd Day of Palestinian hunger strike!

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OVER 100 Fatah-affiliated prisoners in Israeli jails entered their third day on hunger strike yesterday, prisoner representatives said. The 120 prisoners, all held in Nafha...
Young workers marching in London to defend the NHS on May 18 – are part of the movement of millions of workers who are ready to take action to defend their wages and jobs

Unions reject NHS wage freeze

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HEALTH unions have warned that the coalition government’s moves to withdraw a previously announced 1% pay rise for all NHS staff next year are...

COUNCIL WORKERS 2% PAY INSULT – as inflation rises to 4.6%

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COUNCIL worker unions angrily rejected a 2 per cent wage cut pay offer yesterday, as inflation hit 4.6 per cent, the highest in 16...

Labour lets May & Gove off the hook!

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THE LABOUR opposition let both Tory Education Secretary Michael Gove and Home Secretary Theresa May off the hook by failing to call for their...

Living Standards collapsing! – as disposable income plummets

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LIVING standards are collapsing for the majority of people in Britain today, with individuals having less disposable income to spend on average in the...

‘TUC MUST ACT’ to win dispute says John McDonnell Labour MP

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GATE Gourmet strikers are travelling to the TUC Congress in Brighton on Monday demanding action to win their dispute from the TUC not...
Sacked Gate Gourmet workers marching through Southall on the first anniversary of their dismissal

Replacement workers were brought into Gate Gourmet transport department

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GATE Gourmet managers yesterday continued to present their witness statements on the third day of the sacked Gate Gourmet workers employment tribunal in...
Students from the University of Arts London have occupied Central St Martin’s College since Thursday last week

‘We support LSE occupation!’

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OVER 100 defiant occupying students at the University of Arts London (UAL) were joined by students from the LSE occupation and other universities and...

ROYAL FREE BED CUTS! – 100 beds and a number of wards to go

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London UNISON health convenor Geoff Martin yesterday slammed plans by the Royal Free Hospital NHS Trust to slash up to 100 beds and close...

Met Police take charge of regime change op!

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THE METROPOLITAN Police have thrown a spanner into the works of the rapidly developing crisis in the Tory government and party. There is now confusion...
BMA members marching in central London against the Health Bill – the BMA has now demanded that Lansley resign

LANSLEY RESIGN! – BMA demands

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DELEGATES at the BMA representatives meeting in Bournemouth yesterday called for Health Secretary Lansley to resign against the advice of their leadership. Motion 22 from...

General Strike Shuts Down Greece

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GREEK workers last Thursday staged a massive and militant general strike against the right-wing government of Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis, elected a year ago. Record...

French Workers March To Bring Down Macron

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FRENCH protesters downed tools and marched once again in Paris and other cities yesterday. They have been galvanised by President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to ram...
Unite leading a demonstration to mark the 63rd anniversary of the NHS in July this year

SCRAP THE BILL! – and the Board says Unite

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‘The NHS Commissioning Board and the Health Bill should be scrapped’, a Unite spokeswoman told News line yesterday. She was responding to the news that...
Marchers in Hammersmith on October 6th demanding no hospital closures and no privatisation of NHS services

No private ambulances!

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THE local community, backed by Unison, has launched a campaign to stop the privatisation of the patient transport service (PTS) within Greater Manchester. At a...
Health workers demonstrating against cuts outside Kingston Hospital in March this year

£1bn NHS underspend

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Public sector union UNISON yesterday called for a ‘fresh start’ in response to a forecasted £983m surplus in the NHS. Mike Jackson, Senior National Officer...
Media workers demand indefinite general strike

Media workers demand indefinite general strike

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GREEKjournalists, printers, technicians and media office workers staged a 100 per cent successful national strike on Monday against wage cuts and mass sackings, demanding...

PLAN TO SLASH £85m FROM PUBLIC HEALTH

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‘CUTS like this signify a huge step backwards for public health, and will have a damaging impact on people’s health and wellbeing, inevitably costing...

TORY PARTY ‘IN THE GRIP OF THE DUP AND THE ERG’ – 3...

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THREE Tory MPs resigned yesterday to join the independent pro-EU group, set up by seven former Labour MPs who have now been joined by...
‘How do you sleep at night?’ is a good question when at least 46,211 children’s operations have been cancelled over the last four years

12,349 children’s operations were cancelled last year

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THOUSANDS of hospital operations for children are being cancelled every year owing to a lack of beds, staff and equipment in the NHS. NHS figures,...

NORTHERN GAZA CRISIS! – children suffering from the life-threatening drought & malnutrition

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In the northern Gaza Strip, a humanitarian crisis of alarming proportions is unfolding as infants grapple with the life-threatening consequences of drought and malnutrition. The...

LABOUR’S COLLUSION WITH TORTURE CONDEMNED –as Johnson, Miliband and MI5 chief launch witch-hunt!

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Legal charity Reprieve and rights group Amnesty, yesterday hit back at attacks by MI5 and the government on the Appeal Court judgement that revealed...
Sacked Gate Gourmet workers on the Unite March for Jobs last month where Unite leaders joined forces with ex-CBI boss Digby Jones

LDV van plant 810 workers sacked

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Birmingham-based vanmaker LDV was yesterday placed into administration by a court, threatening up to 850 jobs and thousands more in the supply chain. In addition...
Cadbury’s workers in London last December to fight for their jobs

MASSIVE JOBLESS RISE – greatest since 1992

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Responding to yesterday’s unemployment figures, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said: ‘Today’s figures show that unemployment is starting to accelerate and it now...

Corbyn launches election: ‘Remain in EU an option’

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LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn, in launching his party’s election campaign yesterday, reiterated Labour’s plan for Brexit which means renegotiating another deal with the European...
A section of the 2,000 strong picket of the Israeli embassy last Thursday which denounced Zionist terrorism

‘ARM US – SEND US TO GAZA!’ – chant Egyptian demonstrators

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EGYPT will continue to support Gaza against the attacks from the Israeli armed forces, President Mohamed Mursi reiterated yesterday as Israeli airstrikes continued on...
Striking PCS civil servants rally outside the House of Commons last Wednesday denouncing Osborne’s Budget

£9 bn of tax rises ahead – after next election says IFS

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TAX rises of up to £9 billion could be imposed on British households and businesses after the next general election in 2015, leading economic...
Unite members on strike over pay at the Bow garage of East London Bus group last November

Fight 40% Bus Cuts!

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LONDON Bus reps are meeting at the Unite union office at Woodberry, Manor Park, north London at 11am today, to plan coordinated action to...

NHS Is Reeling As Staff Sickness Grows

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THE NHS is reeling under the weight of staff absences, with the Royal College of Emergency Medicine warning that up to a quarter of...

Tories Big Council Losses!

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LABOUR PARTY leader Starmer said yesterday the Labour Party is on track to win the next general election, after taking control of key councils...

22% Youth Jobless!

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unemployment soared by another 48,000 to 2.67 million in the three months to December, the Office for National Statistics reported yesterday. The official unemployment rate...
Electricians were in a determined mood when they marched at Kings Cross yesterday morning and called for Unite to organise an immediate strike ballot

Strike Ballot Now! – Demand Sparks

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MORE than 300 angry electricians marched onto the Kings Cross Station concourse in central London yesterday, where they held an impromptu public rally. Union reps...

Nato Murders Gadaffi

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COLONEL Gadaffi was yesterday badly wounded by a NATO air attack on a convoy of vehicles outside the city of Sirte. It was...
Dave Prentis, the leader of Unison (left), with students from Hackney BSix College outside Downing Street yesterday

Hackney BSix College students lobby 10 Downing Street

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Students from BSix College in Hackney lobbied 10 Downing Street Wednesday morning to protest against the cuts to the EMA, along with Unison General...
ATEF (left) and MANSOOR (right) both said that they would come on the march from Ealing Hospital on May 2nd

Vote Wrp – Says Scott Dore Campaign

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NEW young members joined the Vote Scott Dore WRP campaign team in West Ealing on Saturday afternoon. Atef Azeb, aged 17, said: ‘I don’t like...

TORTURE NO CRIME! – no action against MI5

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The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS); will not prosecute an MI5 officer over the torture of UK resident Binyam Mohamed in Pakistan in 2002, Director...

Police Commissioner Michael has questions to answer over the death of two youths!

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DESPITE thousands of people having seen CCTV footage on the BBC of Kyrees Sullivan, aged 16, and Harvey Evans, aged 15, being chased on...