£1,000 a year pay cuts! – threat to Cambridgeshire FBU
CamBridgeshire Fire Brigades Union (FBU) warned yesterday that firefighters are ready to strike following a pay row which will see their wages being slashed...
50 Italian Doctors Dead!
THE DEATHS of more than 50 doctors from Covid-19 in Italy must serve as an ‘urgent warning’ to British government on PPE supply. The BMA...
APPALLING CAPITA FAILURE! –fails to send screening letters to 48,000 women
THE BMA has criticised the ‘appalling’ failure by health privateer Capita to send cervical screening letters to up to 48,000 women. It has written...
Vital local council services collapsing
VITAL local services are collapsing, council workers have warned in a new survey conducted by their union, Unison. Unison warned that Tory cuts have...
STOP NHS CLOSURES – say lobbying NHS hospital groups
HEALTH workers and campaigners descended on Parliament from many parts of the country yesterday, to defend their hospitals. ‘My hospital is under threat. It’s a...
‘NO SPARE CAPACITY IN HOSPITALS’ warns BMA
PATIENTS are suffering as pressure on the NHS reaches a historic high, the BMA warned yesterday. Tthe publication of NHS England’s ‘winter health check’...
Cabinet Minister Gove Broke The Law Rules The High Court!
THE HIGH Court has ruled that the Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove broke the law by acting with ‘apparent bias’ in handing a £560,000...
Israel prepares for war against Hezbollah
THE ISRAELI military yesterday launched a large-scale exercise, involving ground forces, naval vessels and aircraft, simulating a war against Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement. The multi-day...
22 GP PRACTICES BEING BANKRUPTED – GPs MARCH TODAY
TODAY, GPs and their supporters will be marching through Tower Hamlets to demand proper funding of GP surgeries, which are threatened with closure due...
‘We Don’t Want To Work For An Academy’
THERE was a big turnout of over 60 striking NEU (National Education Union) members and supporters on the picket line outside The Village School...
Junior Doctors Strike Ballot Makes Hunt Think Again!
THE THREAT of industrial action by England’s 50,000 junior doctors has forced Tory health secretary Hunt to think again over plans to impose a...
2,450 sacked by email – 214 Dorothy Perkins, Wallis and Burton shops shut
TORY PM Johnson must wait until there are fewer than 1,000 Covid infections a day before lifting lockdown, NHS bosses and scientists have warned. The...
Yashika Deportation Stopped!
THE Home Office’s forced deportation of 19-year-old female Mauritian student Yashika Bageerathi was stopped yesterday after Air Mauritius refused to fly her. Yashika, who remains...
Youth Services Devastated
ANOTHER round of council cuts is set to devastate services for young people in London, with more than £1 million of cuts planned for...
Tories slash another £250m from social care!
FRAIL and vulnerable people will go without the care they need, the union Unison warned yesterday, after the Tories slashed social care funding by...
Serco hospital workers are set to strike!
PATIENTS at the Royal London hospital in Whitechapel, East London, are facing the prospect of ‘food chaos’ later this month, after workers employed by...
‘Defend GP Practices’ – BMA
THE BMA and GPs have condemned the way that NHS England and Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) are treating GP Practices. Dr...
Kensal Rise library picket!
Save Kensal Green Library campaigners are maintaining their round-the-clock presence outside their local library. Outside the library yesterday morning campaigner Phil O’Shea explained: ‘This campaign...
Hospital numbers ‘could get scary!’ – admits Professor Chris Whitty
‘COVID hospital numbers could get scary!’ Professor Chris Whitty said yesterday, adding that the UK is ‘not out of the woods yet’. ‘People should act...
‘VICTORY TO THE DOCTORS AND THE RAIL WORKERS!’ – RMT’s Mick Lynch tells BMA...
ON SATURDAY, the BMA held a rally to launch its campaign for Pay Restoration. Balloting opened for strike action on 9th January and votes...
‘Real value’ of pay in freefall
THE ‘REAL VALUE’ of pay is in freefall, collapsing by 3% between April and June, according to the latest report from the Office for...
Relentless killing of starving Gazans!
AT LEAST 16 Palestinians, including seven aid seekers, were killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza yesterday as the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued their...
CALL A GENERAL STRIKE! – as Royal Mail gets injunction declaring CWU strikes...
POSTAL workers yesterday reacted furiously to news that Royal Mail had won an injunction at the High Court banning the next...
Hamas-US in direct talks!
THE White House has confirmed that the United States has engaged in direct negotiations with Hamas regarding American captives held in Gaza, despite Washington’s...
CWU rally rejects pensions blackmail!
‘This is just the start of the battle,’ declared Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) deputy general secretary Dave Ward at a mass rally in...
Kherson workers occupy – call for workers councils
The labour collective occupying the Kherson engineering factory has issued a decree appealing to the ‘Workers of Ukraine’. The decree says: ‘We understand that we...
GPs opposing Tory Health Bill
A survey of East Sussex GPs has found that more than 70 per cent of them fear patient care will suffer when changes to...
Great support for Southall WRP candidate!
THE Elect Hassan Zulkifal WRP Ealing Southall campaign got great support on Southall Broadway yesterday. Heathrow Airport worker and GMB member Kutesh Sashikint said: ‘I...
Sadr Aide Arrest
‘We are angry. This is a kind of revenge’, the spokesman for anti-occupation Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said yesterday after US troops and Iraqi...
NHS Crisis: 82 ‘Ghost Wards’ Contain 1,400 Empty Beds
YEARS of savage Tory cuts to the NHS have created the unprecedented situation where there are not even enough staff to run wards. It...
‘NO REGRETS’ SAYS GOLDSMITH – over halting Fraud Office inquiry
Former Attorney General Lord Goldsmith yesterday called on the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) not to re-open its corruption probe into the 1986 so-called ‘Al-Yamamah’...
Hunt rationing healthcare!
The BMA yesterday accused Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt of rationing health care. Hunt has announced a £250m drive to eliminate ‘unacceptable’ 12-month waits, with more...
HUGE ANGER! – in Belfast over ‘Roayal Mail bullying’
BELFAST postal workers, in the second week of their unofficial strike, said there is ‘huge anger’ over what they described as Royal Mail ‘bullying’. Rank...
Action Is Needed To Defend Royal Mail Jobs And Pensions
CWU members working in Royal Mail are facing the greatest threats to their jobs and conditions in the entire history of the postal service. With...
Busworkers Demand Fair Pay And Fair Treatment
BUS drivers across London and Crawley, working for First Bus, Metroline and Metrobus, are staging a 24-hour strike today, demanding a fair pay rise...
Heads Denounce Ofsted ‘Bully Boys’
Head teachers yesterday denounced Ofsted’s ‘bully boy tactics’ and sent a strong message to the chief inspector (HMCI) of schools, Sir Michael Wilshaw, in...
Dire warnings for Europe!
BILLIONAIRE financial speculator George Soros warned yesterday that the German economy is going to totter in the Autumn, when the crisis will ‘come to...
Bombardier Workers Lobby Parliament
TWO hundred Bombardier workers and their supporters descended on parliament yesterday to urge the Tory coalition ‘to save British train manufacturing’. The government has already...
‘We are all very angry with BP!’
OVER 150 people attended a public meeting organised by the Tar-Sands Network in east London on Tuesday night, in preparation for today’s lobby of...
Trump Ignites A World Trade War
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has launched a world- wide trade war, declaring he will impose a 25 per cent tariff on all steel imports...
Gate Gourmet anger over attack on BA stewards
GATE Gourmet workers were very angry yesterday when they heard that BA has decided that three BA shop stewards are to face disciplinary...
BIG WAGE AND JOB CUTS IN NORTH – warns TUC
WORKERS in England’s Northern region are up to £4,264 worse off per year since the Tory-led coalition came to power. The Northern TUC 10-Point Plan...
One Hour Training For Serco Breast Cancer Screeners
THE CANCER breast screening scandal has been exacerbated by news that the call handlers on the hotline set up by health secretary Jeremy Hunt...
‘No option but to escalate!’ says Doctor Malawana
THOUSANDS of junior doctors joined more than 140 picket lines across England yesterday to protest against the imposition of a new contract. Junior doctors took...