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THERE are now 37,821 nurse vacancies in the NHS, NHS England confirmed yesterday, releasing the latest data. This is a rise of 1,738 from the...

LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers expressed shock and anger at the treatment of two hundred Xavier Gourmet workers who found the gate to their...

YESTERDAY’S 8.00am Unite mass protest at the Port of Felixstowe to end bullying management culture and to defend union reps was postponed at the...

‘FORCE this British government to carry out the rightful decision to return us back to our beautiful islands and put an end to these...

The Greek Prime Minister Yiorghos Papandreou, speaking at a meeting of his party’s parliamentary deputies on Saturday, emphasised that ‘no-one likes emergency procedures but...

A FRESH European-wide banking crash has reared its head as the euro tumbled to a six-month low yesterday in reaction to the Italian crisis....

FRIENDS and family, concerned members of the North Kensington community and local campaigners joined forces on Saturday evening to demand justice for El, a...

THE Public and Commercial Services union has described the government’s imposition of further cuts to redundancy terms as a ‘despicable act of bad faith’...

LONDON Metropolitan University lecturers came out on strike yesterday, Wednesday 15th April, having warned the university they would do so, if the management refused to...

‘YOU have to stand up for what you think is right. It’s all about passenger safety. All the rules are being broken on a...

THE Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) voted unanimously yesterday to pursue its ‘ongoing trade dispute’ with the government, including taking ‘industrial action’. Moving the...

porters, theatre technicians, catering, cleaning and other NHS support workers, employed by private contractor Carillion at Great Western Hospital in Swindon, have voted by...

GATE Gourmet workers lobbied the TUC General Council in central London yesterday. They brought their banner: ‘Justice for the Sacked Gate Gourmet Workers’ and...

‘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...

UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis yesterday pledged ‘our union will bring together an alliance of all public service unions’ to defend jobs and public...

ROYAL Free Hospital bosses have been putting doctors under pressure to accept as much as ten per cent pay cuts as part of a...

‘WE ARE already at the height of the process of mapping the area that, according to the Trump plan, will become part of the...

Government plans for secret no-jury ‘pre-trial’ trials before ‘security cleared’ judges are ‘totally unacceptable’ Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn told News Line yesterday. He added: ‘All...

A delegation from the Chagos Islands Community Association (CICA) travelled from Crawley yesterday to attend a ‘Let Them Return’ meeting in the House of...

‘NATIONALISE all the energy giants,’ the Unite union demanded yesterday after BP announced enormous July-September profits of £7.1 billion, more than double the profit...

Southport and Ormskirk UNISON health branch has launched a campaign with other health unions, Amicus, GMB, TGWU, the RCN and RCM against 33 compulsory...

THIRTY-SIX trade unionists, including members of the GSEE (Greek TUC) general council, were attacked by the riot police with tear gas and truncheons and...

GATE GOURMET workers were yesterday calling for action to win their jobs back while, at the same time, BA was opening up a second...

CHIEF Inspector of Schools Michael Wilshaw has criticised the heads of some academy chains for being paid vast salaries, up to £225,000 a...

WITH Congress adjourned for the weekend, US President Obama was holding last-minute talks with Republican and Democratic leaders at the White House yesterday evening...

‘TO provide certainty,’ Tory PM Theresa May said yesterday, ‘I can confirm today that the government will put the final deal which is agreed...

HOSPITAL  consultants in England will go on strike on 20th and 21st July if their ballot, which closes at the end of June, is...

THE Bank of England is to extend its Quantitative Easing (QE) programme (printing money) by another £50bn over the next four months in a...

The secrecy surrounding Labour’s favoured Independent (private) Sector Treatment Centres (ISTCs) has been slammed by the government’s own watchdog. Healthcare Commission chief executive Anna Walker...

TAMILNET reports that in the early hours of Monday at around 3.00am. Vanni local time, the LTTE Political Chief B Nadesan and LTTE Peace...

‘OUR members are eager to make their feelings felt and ready to strike Friday,’ a Communication Workers Union (CWU) spokeswoman told News Line yesterday...

ALMOST half of UK stock market investors fear that markets are seriously overheating, raising fears that a major world wide economic crash is imminent,...

THE ROYAL College of Nursing have warned of a ‘woeful lack’ of trained nurses as it emerges that untrained care assistants are ‘putting patients...

‘OUR members are standing firm and determined to win,’ striking Royal London Hospital Unite rep Ebrima Sonko told News Line yesterday on the morning...

SEVERAL thousand firefighters and supporters yesterday lobbied the London Fire Authority meeting in Southwark which was to vote on the London Fire Commissioner’s revised...

THE head of the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) issued a chilling warning yesterday. . . that the world economic system is headed for...

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...

THE Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation has warned that it will pull out of the corporatist Croke Park talks if the Government does not...

THE Unite trade union has threatened Ford with strike action over 850 proposed sackings and the suspension of a negotiated pay deal to provide...

Almost 8,000 firefighters in England, almost one in five, will be taking some form of industrial action from tomorrow, in a series of regional...

OVER 100 have been killed, including 50 members of local self-defence forces and just over the same number of civilians, in clashes with pro-Kiev...

THE Independent Group of eight ex-Labourites and three ex-Tories is in talks with the Electoral Commission about becoming a fully-fledged political party, group spokesman...

THE HEALTH and Social Care Bill has been revised to allow nearly half of foundation hospital income to be raised from private patient beds...

THE leaders of Ukraine’s breakaway regions, the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics are among those who are being targeted by the new UK anti-Russian...