STOP TUC TALKS WITH TORIES – Barber must be sacked!
‘The TUC-Tory talks must stop’, Dave Wiltshire the All Trades Union Alliance Secretary told News Line yesterday. Wiltshire said: ‘Brendan Barner is discussing with Cameron...
Babar Ahmad was subjected to violent assaults and religious taunts by police
The Metropolitan Police has agreed to pay £60,000 damages to IT analyst Babar Ahmad during a civil action hearing at the High Court which...
DICK PROMOTION UNBELIEVABLE – says de Menezes cousin
‘I THINK we are dealing with a mafia not a police organisation,’ alleged the cousin of murdered Brazilian man Jean Charles de Menezes yesterday. Alex...
May’s Grammar School Move Is Slammed
‘SELECTION belongs in the dustbin of history and has no place in modern society. There must be no going back,’ Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary...
Labour vows to fight for Remain!
LABOUR is now promising to campaign for Remain in any new EU referendum against ‘no deal or a damaging Tory Brexit’. The shift in Labour’s...
BAME PPE crisis is continuing!
BLACK, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) nursing staff are still more likely to have problems accessing protective equipment, according to latest UK-wide member survey...
Five and a half million families skipping meals – ‘horrendous new normal’
MORE than five and a half million low-income households in the UK are cut ting down on or skipping meals, the Joseph Rountree Foundation...
Duggan family wins Judicial Review
Mark Duggan’s family has won the right to challenge last year’s coroner’s court verdict that he was lawfully killed when he was shot dead...
CRASH GOES WALL ST! – Capitalism over the brink!
Wall Street shares fell 2.4% when trading opened in New York yesterday, in the midst of the financial turmoil caused by the bankruptcy of...
‘One rule for them and another for us!’ – unions condemn Grenfell surrender
ATTORNEY General Suella Braverman’s undertaking that evidence given by contractors at the Grenfell Inquiry will not be used to prosecute them constitutes ‘One rule...
Universal Credit– Claimants Suffering
THE PUBLIC and Commercial Services Union (PCS) yesterday accused the government of being ‘complicit in the suffering’ of Universal Credit claimants, labelling the system...
UK Grinds To A Halt!
THE UK economy ground to a halt in the three months to June 30, with Gross Domestic Product (GDP) up just 0.2 per...
Stop The Hospital Closures!
LIBDEM Health Minister Burstow declared on Monday night that the coalition government was ‘right’ to announce the closure of Chase Farm Hospital ‘after years...
Banning Procedures On NHS – A ‘gamble With Patient Health’
Banning NHS operations to save money will gamble with patients’ health, the president of the Royal College of Surgeons warned yesterday. John Black, one of...
Starmer Volunteers To Work In The National Interest!
LABOUR Party leader Sir Keir Starmer volunteered yesterday to ‘work with the Prime Minister in the national interest.’ Appearing on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show,...
House Prices ‘a Long Way To Fall’
UK Mortgage approvals fell sharply again in October, the Bank of England reported yesterday, confirming fears that house sales and prices have a lot...
London FBU To Vote On Strike Action
Fire Brigade Union (FBU) members in London are to vote on industrial action ‘up to and including strikes’ by 24 June. The London FBU Regional...
Pressure Mounts On May To Resign
Home Secretary Theresa May came under renewed pressure to resign yesterday, after former head of the UK Border Force Brodie Clark rebutted her claim...
Bring Binyam Back!
‘BRING Binyam home! Close Guantanamo Bay!’ chanted over 100 demonstrators at Trafalgar Square yesterday afternoon, before the arrival of US President George W. Bush...
750,000 Homes At Risk! – From Housing Benefit Cuts
More than 750,000 people are at risk of losing their homes in London and the south east because of caps being introduced on housing...
LABOUR CRASHING NHS!– with its privatisation policies
‘Increased use of the private sector is skewing staffing levels in the NHS,’ a UNISON spokeswoman told News Line yesterday. She was responding to...
Massachusetts teachers win ‘illegal’ strike!
TEACHERS in Haverhill, Massachusetts, have won their strike held last week, defying a state law banning teachers and other public sector workers from striking,...
Sky News Boss Admits Illegal Hacking
Sky News boss John Ryley admitted to the Leveson Inquiry yesterday that the company broke the law by hacking emails. Following the admission Ofcom announced...
Tube Strike On!
Strikes by 10,000 Tube workers will begin on Monday after talks at conciliation service ACAS broke up yesterday. This followed a failure on the part...
GPs SLAM ‘RISKY’ TORY PLANS – including floating GP practices on stock market
THE vast majority of doctors believe the Tory-LibDem coalition government’s health policies threaten the future of the NHS, finds a poll for the BMA. The...
‘It’s Time For A General Strike!’
HAMMERSMITH and City Line Tube RMT branch secretary Ian Flatman, told News Line: ‘The strike here is absolutely solid. It’s time for a general...
HEWITT CALL TO TREAT PATIENTS IN THE COMMUNITY – to cut NHS deficits
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday warned against any ‘quick fix’ plan to keep asthma and heart patients out of hospital ‘just to...
NHS Execs ‘Gravy Train!’
DOCTORS’ and nurses’ representatives yesterday condemned last year’s £35m of massive pay rises for NHS trust chief executives, while NHS staff have suffered pay...
‘DON’T INTRODUCE REGIONAL PAY!’ – RCN warning for Chancellor Hammond
REGIONALISING public sector pay would exacerbate the NHS recruitment crisis and leave parts of the country unable to provide safe care, the leader of...
BMA & RCN condemn Starmer’s NHS ‘Plan for Change’
PRIME Minister Starmer delivered a speech in a Surrey hospital yesterday morning describing his proposed transformation of the NHS into a largely digital service,...
THIRD YEAR OF WAGE FREEZING! – time to bring down coalition
Yesterday, local government employers confirmed that they are to impose a pay freeze for the third year running on 1.6 million council workers. Unison, Unite...
BUDGET DAY STRIKE! – by 270,000 PCS civil servants!
THE PCS civil service union yesterday announced that members across the UK will be walking out for a third day of strike action on...
National Dock Strike! Warns Unite
UNITE is warning that the refusal of the nation’s port employers to make fair pay offers to their workers could result in a national dock...
NHS care to be shifted out of OUR hospitals!
UNDER plans unveiled by the government, NHS care in England will be significantly shifted out of hospitals and into newly proposed ‘neighbourhood health centres’. Prime...
NATIONAL DEMO! – called by Unison to defend NHS
The Unison national delegate conference in Manchester yesterday voted to step up the fight to save the NHS and to call a national demonstration. Delegates...
A Privateers Manifesto!
Prime Minister Gordon Brown yesterday launched the Labour Party’s election manifesto – which pledged to cut billions from public spending, whilst ‘securing the recovery’. Brown...
PENSIONS ROBBERY – Rolls-Royce strike today
ROLLS-ROYCE workers walk out on strike this morning as the struggle over the great ‘pensions robbery’ escalates. 3,500 car workers across the German car...
‘We can’t go on like this – government has lost control!’ Sir Keir Starmer...
Sir Keir Starmer opened his keynote speech at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool yesterday by condemning the Truss Tory government’s mini-budget last week,...
900 Lebanese killed
All Israeli troops must leave Lebanon before we can accept a ceasefire, Hezbollah said yesterday as its fighters battled an Israeli force of 10,000...
‘NOT GUILTY’ – court decides for Chase Farm occupier! Occupation not illegal!
JOSHUA OGUNLEYE was found not guilty of the charge ‘obstruct/resist a constable in the execution of duty’ in a trial held at Highbury...
Massive Cuts In Ambulance Trusts
THE latest NHS ‘reorganisation’ came into force last Saturday. This is the slashing of the number of Strategic Health Authorities in England from 28 to...
‘The Junior Doctors’ dispute is for all of us’ says TUC – however it...
‘THE junior doctors’ dispute is an issue for all of us,’ declared Unison delegate James Anthony moving Emergency Motion 5 Support for the BMA...
Israel imposes total Gaza blockade of food, water & power!
A HUGE barrage of rockets was launched by Palestinian fighters on the Israeli city of Ashkelon yesterday, after warning residents to leave their homes...
Israel intentionally starving people in Gaza since October 8th says UN
‘ISRAEL has been intentionally starving the Palestinian people in Gaza since October 8,’ the UN special rapporteur on the right to food, Michael Fakhri...
TAKE ON ANTI-UNION LAWS – Rob Williams tells TGWU conference
THE leadership of the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) was shaken at the union’s biennial delegate conference in Brighton yesterday, when a substantial...