‘SAFE PASSAGE TO THE UK!’ – demand 30 top trade union leaders
REFUGEE support campaign group Care4Calais published an open letter yesterday, signed by 30 top trade union leaders, demanding Safe Passage to the UK. Tory plans...
BMA condemns & rejects Primary Care specifications!
THE BMA’s England GP committee has voted not to accept a contract agreement with NHS England and condemned the recently-published draft service specifications outlining...
TORIES PREPARE SUMMER WAR – Organising tens of thousands of strike breakers
Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude has been overseeing ‘war games’ in preparation for a General Strike this summer. Following orders from the Cabinet...
Mortgage holders and public sector workers to be hit and hit again – say...
PRIME Minister Sunak made clear in his interview on the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme yesterday morning that mortgage holders and public sector...
Ryhurst driven out of Whittington Hospital
WHITTINGTON NHS Trust has had to abandon plans to put the company responsible for installing the flammable cladding on Grenfell Tower in charge of...
Duncan Smith Condemns The May EU Elections!
FORMER Tory Party leader Iain Duncan Smith called for Prime Minister Theresa May to quit before the European elections in May. Appearing on Sky’s Sophy...
Father of Yellow Vest whose hand blown off to sue
THE FATHER of the Yellow Vest protester who had his hand blown off by a gas grenade in Paris on Saturday says he plans...
NISSAN WILL SACK 12,500! Sunderland’s future hangs in the balance!
NISSAN is to cut 12,500 jobs worldwide as it reduces its production capacity and the number of models it produces by 10% by the...
OUTSOURCING FOR TORTURE – House of Commons Committee demands investigation
THE House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee has called for an investigation into whether the British Labour government outsourced British nationals to countries such...
Stop NHS Cuts And Closures
Public sector union Unison yesterday slammed a demand from foundation trust (FT) regulator, Monitor, that NHS hospitals make at least 50 per cent bigger...
£50,000 A Day To Strike Break
Firefighters in Suffolk were angry yesterday as the Ministry of Defence and the Armed Forces set out to break their strike actions against plans...
Ealing Maternity must not close – demand Greenford bus drivers
‘THEY HAVE abolished capital punishment in this country, but closing Ealing maternity is a sentence of death for mothers and babies,’ Greenford Bus Garage...
Net Closes In On Cameron
PRIME Minister Cameron came under increasing pressure yesterday to follow the two top London police officers who have quit in the past two days,...
‘OUTSOURCING OF TORTURE’ condemned by Swiss MP Marty
The Council of Europe’s interim report yesterday said it is ‘highly likely’ that European governments know of the secret transport by the CIA of...
Building materials will not be fire tested!
EVEN in the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy, the government has refused to put an end to ‘light touch regulation’ and it still...
Renault Told: Pay Compensation Or Else!
Workers at New Fabris, a bankrupt French car parts supplier, are ready to blow up their factory unless carmakers Renault and PSA-Peugeot pay them...
Kwarteng declares war on the working class – after humiliating turnaround
FOLLOWING his humiliating U-Turn in the small hours of yesterday morning, when Chancellor Kwazi Kwarteng’s announced the abolition of the 45p rate of tax...
RENATIONALISE STEEL – demand workers as 1,050 jobs go
‘OCCUPY the Port Talbot plant and demand that the government renationalise the steel industry immediately,’ Robbie Wheatley, Community union Branch Secretary at Lackenby...
From New Labour Spin To Union Busting
GMB trade union members demonstrated yesterday against the union-busting propaganda for Asda Wal-Mart being supplied by public relations company Portland PR, which was set...
Fire and Rescue cuts puts flood victims lives at risk
VICIOUS Tory cuts to the tune of £140 million mean that fire and rescue services are fighting with one hand tied behind their back....
Eight Days To Greek Default!
GREECE was put in an ‘eight days to default’ situation by the ECB and the EU yesterday. A default by Greece was technically avoided when...
PCS privatisation warning!
CABINET Office minister Francis Maude’s continuing claims that his attempt at mutualising (privatising) a government body enjoys staff support is completely undermined by figures...
‘Don’t cut Universal Credit!’ – Unite appeals to Chancellor Sunak
MORE than half the country wants chancellor Rishi Sunak to continue permanently with the £20-a-week uplift in Universal Credit (UC) due to end in...
Locked-out workers ‘disgusted’ with TGWU leaders
‘I am hurt very badly when I see that report in The Guardian,’ locked-out Gate Gourmet worker Parmjit Bains told News Line. ‘The union refused...
80% of flammable towers have still not been reclad
‘STILL almost 8 in 10 blocks with Grenfell type cladding have not had it replaced with over half of those with no work started...
Tory-Dup Talks No Deal As Yet! – Major Warns Over Deal
PRIME Minister May finished a round of talks with Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Arlene Foster yesterday afternoon without an agreement being reached. There was...
OFFICIAL STRIKE CALL – Power strikes harden
‘I call on every trade unionist around this country in the construction industry to come out on official action,’ Unite official Keith Gibson told...
BMA senior leaders demand – JOBS GUARANTEE FOR ALL 35,000 JUNIOR DOCTORS
The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday called for a ‘cast iron guarantee’ that not one of 35,000 junior doctors will be without a job...
APPALLING CAPITA FAILURE! –fails to send screening letters to 48,000 women
THE BMA has criticised the ‘appalling’ failure by health privateer Capita to send cervical screening letters to up to 48,000 women. It has written...
Hospital numbers ‘could get scary!’ – admits Professor Chris Whitty
‘COVID hospital numbers could get scary!’ Professor Chris Whitty said yesterday, adding that the UK is ‘not out of the woods yet’. ‘People should act...
Planet without a visa! – Putin turns his back on brave whistleblower Snowden
EDWARD SNOWDEN has sought asylum from 15 countries after Russia and Ecuador have denied his petitions. Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed on Monday that Moscow...
Aslef strikes for safety!
STRIKING train drivers brought the Southern rail network to a halt yesterday in their dispute over safety. Members of the Aslef union walked out for...
Teachers Strike!
TEACHERS in four schools in Calderdale, Greenwich, Newham and Doncaster will take strike action this week to protect salary levels following a review forced...
Extreme torture inflicted on Palestinians
NEWLY released accounts from detainees in Israel’s Naqab Prison reveal harrowing details of torture and dehumanisation inflicted by Israeli forces, underscoring a pattern of...
£18m wage cut for mid-Yorkshire NHS Trust
Up to 1,100 NHS jobs are to be axed at Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS trust, in a bid to cut the pay bill by...
250,000 IN NEGATIVE EQUITY! – as Ryanair announce 10% fleet cut
CITIGROUP bank has warned the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) against upping interest rates when it meets this week. It noted that already...
‘WE WANT ANSWERS!’ say furious West Virginia mining families
US miners’ families’ relief turned to fury yesterday when they heard that only one of 12 trapped miners was alive when their bodies were...
Police confront students
OVER 200 students from London universities and supporters from other universities demonstrating yesterday against police violence, were themselves confronted by Police. They marched from ULU...
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...
‘BUILD COUNCILS OF ACTION’ – organise general strike to defend the NHS
BILL Rogers the secretary of the North East London Council of Action welcomed 100 workers and youth to yesterday’s conference in Enfield...
1-metre rule abandoned when schools re-open! – parents to be fined if they keep...
THE ONE-METRE distancing rule is to be abandoned in schools when they open in September, the Tory government announced yesterday to the alarm of...
ACCEPT PRIVATISATION OR BE SACKED! NW London NHS pathology staff told
THE GMB yesterday condemned the forced transfer of nearly 700 northwest London NHS pathology service staff to a private company. The service carries out blood...
Gate Gourmet Conference Campaign Going Well
GATE Gourmet workers held a successful campaign yesterday for the News Line/Gate Gourmet-Locked-Out Workers Conference on the 29th January. They visited Greenford Council depot and...
‘Under Immense And Continuous Stress!’ – Doctors Tell Bma
IN TESTIMONIES provided to the BMA, one doctor said that ‘we are under immense and continuous stress’. While another doctor said: ‘What has been...
NHS Hit List!
The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday slammed the government for ‘treating health care like a business opportunity’. It was responding to news that the government...