Bma Slams Tories And Privatisation!
IN his speech to the BMA’s ARM, Dr Mark Porter, BMA council chair, said: ‘The government is in denial. The chancellor says...
Iraq-Afghan Wars Costs Soar
The government’s forecasts for the costs of military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan in this financial year have ‘increased significantly over the last three...
Gmm Profits Collapse!
The future of the General Motors plant in Luton, IBC Vehicles, and its 1,000 workforce, is looking ‘doubtful’, despite assurances from GM bosses. GM says...
Gate Gourmet Workers Join Terminal 5 Picket
A DELEGATION of locked out Gate Gourmet workers joined the Terminal 5 building workers’ picket line at Heathrow Airport yesterday afternoon. Parmjit Bains, one of...
Enforced debt collection thousands of complaints
ENFORCED debt collection, aggressive bailiffs, aggressive customer service tactics, breaches of confidentiality and hiking the size of the debt are just some of thousands...
PROTECT OCCUPATIONAL PENSIONS – demand unions
Workers who lost their pensions when their firm went bust gave a cautious welcome to a second High Court victory yesterday. The court rejected an...
MPs MOVE TO DUMP PRESCOTT
Ministers rushed to attempt a papering over of the yawning cracks in the Blair government yesterday as pressure built up on Deputy Prime Minister...
Benefit cutter ATOS faces strike action
ATOS, an Olympics sponsor at the centre of the government’s controversial cuts to disability benefits, faces industrial action during the Games by Public...
HEARTBREAKING! – ‘This report expresses the determination of the families’
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...
Riot Police Put Down Migrant Uprising
RIOT police put down an uprising by immigrants imprisoned at Amygdaleza detention centre, near Athens, who rose up at around 10.00pm on Saturday night. They...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers to march through Southall
LOCKED OUT Gate Gourmet workers are to march through Southall on Sunday December 4th to demand that the TGWU makes their dispute official and...
Corridor care ‘unsafe, undignified, unacceptable’ says RCN
‘CARE delivered in corridors and other non-clinical spaces is unsafe, undignified and unacceptable,’ the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said yesterday in response to...
Egypt – Another Million-Strong Protest
Anti-Mubarak protesters in Cairo yesterday have called for another ‘million strong protest’ in Tahrir Square today. This call was made as the Egyptian government and...
Cameron boasts unions accept ‘thresholds’ are right!
PM CAMERON told the Andrew Marr Show yesterday that what was interesting about Unite leader McCluskey’s proposals on the new anti-trade union bill...
North Middlesex Mass Picket A Great Success
‘THE mass picket has gone very well,’ said Bill Rogers, secretary of the North East London Council of Action, outside the North Middlesex Hospital...
The Met to investigate Downing Street parties
THE METROPOLITAN police are investigating allegations surrounding parties at Downing Street and in Whitehall, M-et Chief Cressida Dick said yesterday, with the Sue Gray...
PM ‘SQUATTING IN DOWNING STREET’ says Labour’s Emily Thornbury
INTERVIEWED on BBC TV’s Andrew Marr Show yesterday morning, Labour leader Corbyn said of the Tories: ‘They are trying to form a government at...
‘THEY ARE PLAYING WITH OUR LIVES’ say Gourmet pickets
GATE GOURMET pickets were angry yesterday that they have still not been told who is to be offered their jobs back, or who is...
‘We’ll renationalise NHS!’ says Labour leader Corbyn
‘THE FIRST thing that we will do is repeal the Health and Social Care Act. It must be repealed and that will effectively renationalise...
BBC strikes ‘suspended’ but mass sackings to continue
IN a major climbdown the BBC trade union leaders have suspended, ie cancelled, next week’s 48-hour BBC strike and will be holding a meeting...
Israeli Occupation Forces Carry Out Four Massacres
ISRAELI occupation forces committed four massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over 24 hours yesterday, resulting in the tragic killing of 40 Palestinians...
8,000 firefighters taking industrial action!
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...
Japan Shut Down
Japan’s nuclear crisis intensified yesterday as authorities raced to combat the threat of multiple reactor meltdowns, while investors feared a share market crash. More than...
Russia takes Kherson & surrounds Mariupol
YESTERDAY morning, one week after the start of their operation, Russian forces captured the main city in southern Ukraine, Kherson. Kherson is not far from...
GETTING RID OF MUBARAK IS ONLY THE BEGINNING – Wasseem Wagdi tells rally
Over 2,000 celebrated the ousting of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak at a rally in Trafalgar Square, central London, on Saturday organised by Amnesty International...
‘Seize Passports’ Says Police Chief!
MET POLICE chief Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe said yesterday that he backs a call to seize the passports from Britons who go abroad to...
Unions Reject Pay-Cut Cartel
HEALTH unions, Unison, the BMA, and RCN have refused to recognise a South West regional NHS cartel set up to cut pay and conditions. The...
No ceasefire talks until Israel ends ‘hunger war’ says Hamas
HAMAS will not engage in new ceasefire talks with Israel, as long as the regime continues its ‘hunger war’ against Palestinians in Gaza. Basem Naim, Hamas political...
EU crisis meetings over Greece
GREEK Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is holding meetings with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande this week, in a bid...
Lecturers Take Strike Action!
AT 11.00am yesterday, University staff across the country walked out on strike in anger in the first of a series of two-hour strikes in...
‘The Police Have Tried To Silence US!’
OVER 3,000 people massed around the Clapham Common bandstand on Saturday afternoon for a vigil in respect of Sarah Everard who was abducted and...
Israel steps up its counter-revolutionary war on Hamas!
AFTER a night of airstrikes, the Israeli military has initiated a ground operation into the northern section of the Nuseirat camp, described by an...
Tories Planning To Break ‘Trade Union Stranglehold’
THE TORY government is drawing up plans for new anti-union laws to ‘break the stranglehold of the trade unions’, The Sunday Telegraph newspaper disclosed...
‘GREECE WILL NOT BECOME THE EU’s LEBANON’
GREECE has recalled its ambassador to Austria amid sharp divisions among EU states over the migrant crisis. The move came after Austria hosted a meeting...
Blackburn College Sacking Staff But Boosting Bosses’ Pensions!
LECTURERS are furious after Blackburn College announced plans to sack staff but boost bosses’ pensions. 29 jobs are at risk in the fifth round of...
Coordinated strike action motion for TUC
TRANSPORT union RMT has tabled a motion for the TUC Congress in Manchester next week which sets out a blueprint for a coordinated trade...
Dozens of women and children brutally murdered by Israeli genocidal regime
DOZENS of innocent civilians, including children and women, were brutally murdered and others injured yesterday as the occupying Israeli regime continued its genocidal war...
Police-MI5 worked to blacklist trade unionists!
It has emerged that the police, MI5 and other security services supplied information to a blacklist compiled for and funded by Carillion and...
IRISH WORKERS SIT-IN – Fighting 90 redundancies
WORKERS are occupying the Calcast car parts factory in Campsie, just outside Derry in the north of Ireland. The plant, a subsidiary of the...
CALL A DAY OF ACTION – to defend the NHS says PCS civil servants
‘A National Day of Action by all trade unions would be a good starting point’, a PCS spokesman told News Line yesterday. He was responding...
‘time For Apologies Over’ – Barclays Bank Boss Tells Mps
THE Tory-LibDem coalition has given the banks an assurance that they are at liberty to continue to pay unlimited bonuses, with no government regulation. The...
More Than 20,000 Troops For Helmand Province
Prime Minister Brown yesterday announced the UK is sending 500 extra troops to Afghanistan early this month. He revealed that, along with special forces operating...
Manchester health cuts condemned
DOCTORS, nurses, staff and patients alike are furious at the major staff cuts and proposed further funding cuts affecting the hospitals in the Manchester...
FIGHT MASS SACKINGS – 200,000 jobs to go in the next three months
THE GMB has warned that 200,000 jobs will be cut by councils in England in the next three months. GMB national officer...
Raab Outlines Brexit Crisis!
TORY Brexit secretary Dominic Raab yesterday set out what he called ‘practical and proportionate’ advice in case the UK leaves the EU with no...