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GATE Gourmet locked-out workers yesterday won big support from UNISON members at Hounslow Civic Centre. Paul Gibbons, a student social worker, said: ‘I get irritated...

Patient safety and the future career prospects of many thousands of junior doctors could be further jeopardised within the next two weeks, warned the...

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...

US Republican presidential candidate John McCain, due in London next week to meet premier Gordon Brown, has said in advance of the visit that...

Living conditions for Palestinians in Gaza are at breaking point, Karen Abuzayd, head of the UN Relief and Works Agency warned yesterday. She said...

A KENSINGTON and Chelsea council meeting on Thursday evening erupted into anger as Tory council leader Nick Paget-Brown shut the meeting down five minutes...

Yesterday’s High Court ‘torture verdict strongly condemned the UK government for complicity in US crimes’, said legal charity Reprieve. Lord Justice Thomas and Justice...

HUNDREDS of key NHS workers, employed by the giant outsourcing company Serco, will stage a two week strike across Barts Health NHS Trust in...

Prime Minister Blair and Gordon Brown, together with Work and Pensions Secretary Hutton, will today announce a new, savage attack on lone parents and...

Disabled people occupied the Central Lobby of Parliament yesterday against the abolition of their Independent Living Fund (ILP). They attempted to storm parliament itself,...

‘STAND up to Hunt,’ is the message from the Society for Acute Medicine who have thrown their full weight behind next week’s junior doctors’...

‘WE’VE been screwed for too long. It’s time to stand up for ourselves and call for the BMA to support industrial action.’ This defiant statement...

GROWING numbers of private sector tenants are turning to Citizens Advice after facing eviction despite being up to date with their rent, the national...

THE RMT has called a National Rail Strike on Tuesday June 21st, when over 50,000 railway workers, including Network Rail, 13 train operating companies...

FOUR hundred and fifty jobs are to be axed at the BBC, it was announced yesterday. The cuts include the closure of the Victoria Derbyshire...

THE government must not use ‘transformation’ plans as a cover for further cuts to the NHS, says the British Medical Association. Responding to a...

THE LONDON Fire Brigade yesterday issued a statement that over the last five years there have been 438 fires in London in factories,...

TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak has confirmed that he will extend the furlough scheme across the UK until the end of March. Sunak said the scheme...

The British Medical Association (BMA) Central Consultants and Specialists Committee (CCSC) is meeting today at BMA House, Tavistock Place, London. One of the resolutions before...

A DEMONSTRATION in Wakefield will be held today into the delay by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) on whether it will launch a...

UNISON said yesterday that it was truly shocked by the scale of job losses and call centre closures announced by NHS Direct, warning that...

Camden Unison held a demonstration outside Haverstock School, north London yesterday in support of the school’s Unison shop steward William Westwell who has been...

‘The plan to make patient data available to private companies is all about using the NHS as a treasure trove for profits for private...

TEN British military officers are to be sent to Libya to train Libyan counter-revolutionaries along with a number of French officers. Foreign Secretary Hague announced...

‘NO to martial law! Strike down the dictatorship! Open the gate!’ demonstrators shouted outside South Korea’s Parliament last night after President Yoon Suk Yeol...

Tens of thousands of protesters flooded into Cairo’s Tahrir Square yesterday, demanding the immediate removal of the Egyptian military regime. As the square filled up...

US President Joe Biden affirmed last night that a two-state solution was the ‘only real solution’ to the war in Gaza and the Palestinian-Israeli...

A NEW RMT hotline exposes 33 examples of Govia Thameslink cancelling trains due to ‘staff shortage’ or other excuses when a full crew of...

The 1,200 striking workers at the Grangemouth oil refinery yesterday made it clear they are determined to defend their pensions. Unite members walked out of...

‘I WORK in A&E and I have the feeling that we will actually get women coming into A&E to have their babies and it’s...

GATE GOURMET locked out workers were back on the hill yesterday after their successful mass picket on Sunday. Lakhinder Saran said: ‘Our mass picket was...

THE NASUWT and NUT teachers’ unions’ annual conferences at the weekend voted to resist the spread of academies and free schools. Both conferences carried votes...

CWU representatives yesterday concluded a two day briefing in Bournemouth on the Business Transformation 2010 agreement reached between the CWU executive and Royal Mail. On...

DELEGATES at the Trade Union Congress in Manchester yesterday voted unanimously for Composite Motion 3: Grenfell Tower. The motion condemns the tragedy where...

TORY government plans to boost the number of trainee nurses in the wake of the Francis report into Mid Staffs are failing, the Royal...

DELEGATES at the TUC Congress in Liverpool yesterday, voted unanimously for Motion 75 Qatar to strip Qatar of the World Cup. The motion ‘Calls on...

DIRECTOR of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, said that Christmas Eve was one of the most difficult nights in Kamal Adwan Hospital...

UNIFOR National President Jerry Dias, speaking during a press conference, has asked for all Canadians and Americans to boycott all General Motors vehicles that...

OVER 200 people demonstrated outside the doctors’ union BMA head office in central London yesterday to protest against the ban on Dr Swee Ang...

REPEATED catastrophic failures at an NHS trust meant that more than 200 babies may have died and that many others were left with life-changing...

BARNET Unison, members of Unite Community and local supporters were out on strike all over the north London borough yesterday in defence of public...

Yesterday Royal College of Nursing (RCN) General Secretary Beverly Malone condemned the government’s latest scheme to keep overseas junior nurses out of Britain. Responding to...

AS the Health and Social Care Bill undergoes its third reading, 400 GPs have signed a letter calling for a massive campaign to secure...

‘Tamil Tigers Lift the Banner! Tamil Tigers Lift the Banner!’ This is what young Tamil workers chanted having just prevented the police from...

The Jean Charles de Menezes Family Campaign issued a statement yesterday claiming a victory in their fight for the full truth about the police...