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TODAY thousands of junior doctors, health workers, student nurses, march through central London demanding ‘Victory to the junior doctors!’ At 8am next Wednesday morning (February...

Public sector union UNISON has warned councils in England not to short change workers when they plan their budgets for 2008. ‘Our members won’t settle...

‘Our members are really angry,’ Bow, east London Communication Workers Union (CWU) E3 Unit Rep Vince Micaleff told News Line yesterday. He was responding to...

THE ‘I LOVE THE NHS’ march and rally is attracting widespread celebrity support from the world of music, sport, TV, comedy and literature. ...

The Royal Bank of Scotland yesterday revealed a half-year net loss of £802 million, the second biggest in British banking history. This was after...

Tuesday’s student demonstration in London ended in a mass arrest of 144 people, being described by students and legal groups as an exercise in...

‘The talks are a trap to get over Christmas,’ warned Hampstead Delivery Office Communication Workers Union (CWU) deputy unit rep John Taylor yesterday. He...

THE Iranian government yesterday denied US charges that it was smuggling arms into Afghanistan to help the Taleban destroy NATO tanks and bring down...

Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude has been overseeing ‘war games’ in preparation for a General Strike this summer. Following orders from the Cabinet...

Gate Gourmet locked out workers are calling on British Airways workers and all workers to join them on their anniversary march and rally in...

US President Barack Obama yesterday announced a further 4,000 US troops will be sent to Afghanistan this summer, in addition to the 17,000 earmarked...

Yesterday’s strike by benefits and pensions staff was a ‘fantastic success’ said the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS). Jobcentres, benefit offices, pension centres and...

Banks are relying on the taxpayer for £512 billion support this year, the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee reported yesterday. The parliamentary...

‘WE HAVE consistently called for the entire prison estate to be brought back into the public sector,’ Peter McParlin, National Chairman of the Prison...

GATE Gourmet locked-out workers are calling on all their supporters to join them at their monthly mass picket on the hill at the Beacon...

NINE Vauxhall cars and vans from the 1960s to the present day came to London yesterday for a ‘drive-by’ of parliament ‘to showcase the...

SEVENTY thousand council workers are to be balloted in every borough in England and Wales in preparation for a strike action against a ‘derisory’...

A Joint statement by the European Employee Forum of General Motors (EEF), the European Metalworkers‚ Federation (EMF) and the European Unions was issued yesterday...

Armed militias operating across Libya are committing widespread human rights abuses with impunity, warned Amnesty International in a new report released yesterday. The report, Militias...

A team of locked-out Gate Gourmet workers campaigned on Southall High Street yesterday. They spoke to Warish Singh an RMT member from Earls Court tube...

THE TORIES, under fire from all sides have had to make a U-turn on their policy over the immigration status of NHS workers. Until yesterday...

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...

‘EALING Hospital A&E and Maternity must not close and it’s a disgrace that the Labour candidate refuses to commit to this,’ Scott Dore, Workers...

THE Norfolk and Norwich University Foundation Trust (NNUH) has closed two and half wards, around 68 beds. The closures took place on Monday 15th August,...

Trade union leaders were yesterday impotent in the face of threatened mass sackings at Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and Corus by owner Tata of...

Cardiff University and College Union (UCU) lecturers branch has called on national union leaders to resign over calling off industrial action before consulting members...

SOUTHERN rail yesterday lost its appeal to attempt to ban the Southern rail drivers’ strike, so the two day strike has gone ahead. The strike...

Children at two Edinburgh schools yesterday staged a walkout of classes as part of a campaign against the planned closure of 22 schools and...

The Unite union for British Airways’ 11,000 cabin crew, yesterday confirmed that a fresh ballot for strike action at BA is soon to get...

OVER 5,000 Greek school and university students along with teachers and university lecturers demonstrated through the Athens city centre yesterday afternoon for the third...

‘OUR trade union leaders did nothing for us,’ sacked Gate Gourmet worker Parmjit Bains told a 200-strong fourth anniversary rally for the sacked workers...

JEREMY Corbyn speaking in Swindon yesterday confirmed that Labour will abolish zero-hours contracts. He said that, ‘Some one million people are on zero-hours contracts’ and...

the National Union of Students (NUS) is lobbying Parliament today against a threatened unlimited hike in university top up fees. The NUS has called the...

Demonstrators pushed through the police barricades shouting ‘Free, Free Palestine’, as several thousand people protested outside the entrance to the avenue leading to the...

TRADE union general secretaries and other delegates to the TUC General Council expressed support, and donated money to the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers...

THE TGWU conference yesterday passed Composite Motion 29 with just one delegate voting against it. This called ‘for the immediate withdrawal of UK troops from...

HOMELESS youth are being given bus tickets and told to sleep on the back of night buses because all the hostels are full. The New...

‘It was a really good march on Saturday,’ occupying Vestas worker Chris Ash told News Line yesterday. Workers have been occupying to stop the closure...

Israel yesterday conceded that the Arab residents of east Jerusalem shall vote in this month’s Palestinian election but said ‘under no circumstances’ would it permit...

Trade unions yesterday slammed Labour’s privatisation policy in response to MPs’ criticism of the system of NHS charges. MPs on the House of Commons...

‘Direct government investment is by far the cheapest and best way to build new hospitals,’ said a UNISON spokeswoman yesterday, in response to the...

PARLIAMENT has been recalled from its summer break today especially to vote on whether the UK will join the US-led air strikes against ISIL...

OVER 800,000 Unite and UNISON council workers in England, Wales and the north of Ireland are taking strike action today and tomorrow, furious at...

‘We are prepared to occupy before any closures are implemented,’ said North East London Council of Action Secretary Bill Rogers yesterday. Commenting on news that...

PATHOLOGY staff struck for 24 hours yesterday, at King’s, Guy’s and St. Thomas’ hospitals in a determined struggle against venture capitalist encroachment in the...