Ford’s Bridgend closure ‘a hammer blow’– GMB
‘WE’RE HUGELY shocked by today’s announcement. It’s a real hammer blow for the Welsh economy and the community in Bridgend,’ GMB’s Regional Organiser Jeff...
‘FIGHT THEM!’ – Libyan forces launch counter-attack
The battle for Libya continued yesterday with government forces launching bold counter-attacks on the counter-revolutionary ‘rats’ in the wake of Thursday night's call to...
Not guilty verdict in secret state trial
LAW student Erol Incedal has been cleared at the Old Bailey of planning a terrorist attack in a secret prosecution, closed to the public. Turkish-born...
SHUT DOWN GUANTANAMO! – but Blair rejects MP’s committee demands
The Blair government yesterday came under fire from MPs and human rights organisation Amnesty International over the so-called ‘war on terror’. In its annual human...
Windrush promises must have legal backing
MORE than 200 MPs have signed a letter to the prime minister calling for government promises to Windrush migrants to be written into law....
3,300 STAFF & 1,500 BEDS CUT SINCE 2010! – in the mental health service
MENTAL health services across the UK are under unprecedented strain, with a steep fall in nurse numbers and available beds at a time of...
‘Make the least unsafe decision!’ – Norfolk & Norwich hospital staff told
STAFF at Norfolk’s biggest hospital , the Norfolk and Norwich, were told to make the ‘least unsafe decision’ last week, when the hospital had...
NHS Referrals Scandal
The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday expressed its concerns over Primary Care Trusts diverting patient referrals to private...
Condemn terrorists – Syria urges UN
SYRIA’S Foreign and Expatriates Ministry yesterday demanded that the UN unequivocally condemns the attacks by the armed terrorist groups on the United Nations Disengagement...
‘Labour can’t be allowed to get away with it!’ – Unite’s Sharon Graham tells...
Yesterday at the TUC Congress, moving a motion on council funding, Sharon Graham, Unite General Secretary, said: ‘We in the trade unions have enormous...
Duggan Family Will Fight Inquest Verdict
THE FAMILY of Mark Duggan, who was shot dead by police in August 2011, said yesterday that the family will fight the inquest decision...
Israel bombs Beirut suburb – kills 5, injures dozens
THE Israeli occupation army assassinated a senior Hezbollah commander in an airstrike on Beirut’s southern suburb yesterday, killing and injuring about two dozen civilians...
Rights At Work Under Attack!
THE TRADE UNIONS condemned huge attacks on workers’ rights announced by LibDem Business Secretary Cable yesterday. Declaring he intended to make the process of getting...
‘MUSHARAFF MUST STAND TRIAL!’ – demand Pakistan workers and youth
Jubilant Pakistanis danced in the streets, waved flags and fired shots in the air, and called for President Pervez Musharraf to be put on...
Forward to a workers government in Greece
THE workers’ occupation of the Greek State TV and Radio (ERT) has led to the collapse of the Greek tripartite government. Foris Kouvelis, the...
Finucane Report Is A Whitewash Says Family
‘YET another British government has engineered the repression of the truth behind the murder of my husband Pat Finucane.’ This was the response of Geraldine...
FINGERPRINTING AT TERMINAL 5 – for all internal and external flights
‘It’s unacceptable and totally undemocratic. We are having security decided by the private sector with no reference to parliament,’ Sharon Holder, GMB national officer,...
Ryton Workers Condemn Hodge
COMMENTS in Parliament by Labour minister Margaret Hodge and Labour MP Brian Donohoe, which were critical of the unions’ call for car buyers not...
Health care assistants in crisis
HEALTHCARE assistants across the UK face are suffering from the NHS crisis of staffing levels. The Unison union’s report, Red Alert – Unsafe Staffing Levels...
PCS Second Week Of Strike Action!
THERE was a lively picket of PCS union members outside the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology office in Whitehall yesterday morning, on their...
RMT slams ‘bandit capitalism’
THE RMT is demanding action after Better Capital has confirmed that it expects its £20 million investment back while City Link staff and sub-contractors...
MARCH WITH US THROUGH SOUTHALL say locked-out Gate Gourmet workers
LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers are calling on the whole trade union movement to join them on their march through Southall on Sunday December...
Huge increase in ASBOs
Human rights group Liberty yesterday condemned the huge increase in the number of Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (Asbos) issued as the government steps up its...
Israel targets medics and aid workers – new videos show
Israeli forces have issued an evacuation order to medical staff at the Kuwaiti Hospital in Rafah, one of the last remaining hospitals in the...
Gmb Members Picket ‘Vulture Capitalists’
GMB members yesterday went to Germany to demonstrate outside a gathering of the European Venture Capitalists Association (EVCA), at the same time as Prime...
Hamas condemns Trump’s threats – urges proceed to a lasting truce
HAMAS has condemned threats made by US President Donald Trump, warning that his remarks will embolden Israel to disregard the fragile ceasefire in Gaza. Hamas...
Royal Mail ‘Scare Tactic’ Condemned
The Communic-ation Workers Union yesterday said its members would not be impressed by remarks from Royal Mail directors that bosses are ready for a...
Tory programme of attacks on working class!
THE TORY programme of 38 pieces of anti-working class legislation which the government plans during the current parliamentary session was outlined in the Queen’s...
No Xmas Wages For 600 Workers
THE collapse of construction firm Clugston has halted work on Newcastle University’s new £39m extension and £25m sports centre. Clugston, which employs more than 600...
Nurses Marching Today
A SURVEY of over 17,000 nursing staff has raised concerns that government plans to scrap student nurse bursaries will lead to even greater staff...
‘Corridor care seems to have become the norm’ says the RCN’s Patricia Marquis
‘NEXT week’s strikes are in protest at unsafe care,’ said Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Director for England, Patricia Marquis yesterday, in response to...
Teachers 98% strike vote! – Nationwide strikes on 27th April & 2nd May
TEACHERS have voted by a massive 98% in favour of strike action to defeat the Tories’ miserable 4.3% pay offer. Commenting on the ballot result...
Mass Pickets Of Striking Junior Doctors Today!
MASS PICKETS of striking junior doctors take place today from 8am-11am outside St Thomas’ Hospital opposite Parliament in central London, Queen Elizabeth Hospital in...
Over 700 homeless have died
AS MANY AS 700 people died on the streets while homeless last year, official estimates show, and the number is in reality likely to...
Anti-Corbyn coup attempt!
SEVEN right wing Labour shadow cabinet members quit yesterday, with more resignations expected, as a coup attempt got underway to remove Jeremy Corbyn as...
Doctors prepare to strike – as Tories drive doctors out the NHS
AS junior doctors are preparing for strike action for three days next month, there is mounting fury at the Tory government’s attacks on...
60 Unis Begin 8-Day Strike!
STUDENTS across the UK were on picket lines yesterday supporting their lecturers and support staff on the first day of their eight-day strike action...
MoD LIED OVER TORTURE
THE High Court has today heard, in the case of R (Serdar Mohammed) v Secretary of State for Defence, that British forces passed hundreds...
‘TROUBLE AHEAD FOR MAY’ – warns the ERG’s Steve Baker
TORY MP Steve Baker, deputy chairman of the Eurosceptic group the European Research Group (ERG), warned yesterday there is ‘trouble ahead’ for May. He tweeted:...
Occupy North Mid Hospital to stop closure
FOUR-HOUR waits in A&E at north Middlesex Hospital have increased by 380% while at the Royal Free Hospital in London, four-hour waits in A&E...
Police Stop Gg Picket Outside Plant
GATE Gourmet locked-out workers were stopped from picketing the Gate Gourmet plant yesterday by the Heathrow Airport police and by the British Airports...
‘A MOMENTOUS BREAKTHROUGH!’ – ICC to investigate Israeli war crimes
AMNESTY International (AI) described yesterday’s decision by Fatou Bensouda, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), to open a formal investigation into the situation...
Stock Market Falls Continue
FRIDAY saw stock markets around the world collapse further, following on from the dramatic slump in shares on Thursday, triggered by fears that the...
‘A despicable act of bad faith’ – PCS condemns government
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’...
‘WE HAVE HAD MASSIVE SUPPORT FROM PUBLIC’ – ASLEF representative tells News Line
‘WE HAVE had massive support from the public,’ the ASLEF rep Lucio Buffone told News Line when he spoke out on the well-attended picket...