Set The Strike Dates Now! Demand Cabin Crew
‘We want the next strike dates set now,’ a female British Airways cabin crew member at Heathrow told News Line yesterday. She was responding ...
No Victimisation!
Camden Unison held a demonstration outside Haverstock School, north London yesterday in support of the school’s Unison shop steward William Westwell who has been...
PLANS TO PUNISH JOBLESS! – by Policy Exchange think-tank
Civil servants union PCS yesterday condemned the latest attack on the unemployed by the Cameron-favoured right-wing Policy Exchange think-tank. Following its latest study, the Policy...
Miliband condemns policy on Libya
LABOUR leader Miliband yesterday indicted Cameron’s foreign policy in an attempt to win the support of the British bourgeoisie. He said of PM Cameron’s foreign...
70,000 workers to be balloted over 1.75%! – Unite, Unison & GMB demand 10%...
SEVENTY thousand council workers are to be balloted in every borough in England and Wales in preparation for a strike action against a ‘derisory’...
US Air Raids Kill Over 200 Civilians
THE Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has reported that more than two hundred civilians lost their lives as the US-led coalition...
Cuts to be met by sustained industrial action
A delegation of over 40 Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) members and officials lobbied the Treasury as Chancellor Osborne was making his budget...
Hunt ‘No’ To Setting NHS Staffing Levels
THE Unison trade union has welcomed the Cameron-commissioned Berwick Review of patient safety and said that the government should listen to it. Unison said:...
IRISH FERRIES BARRED – turned away by port workers in Dublin and Rosslare
Rosslare and Dublin port workers have said they will not handle Irish Ferries ship the MV Normandy if it tries to dock at their...
Kherson workers occupy – call for workers councils
The labour collective occupying the Kherson engineering factory has issued a decree appealing to the ‘Workers of Ukraine’. The decree says: ‘We understand that we...
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...
London FBU Strike Ballot!
‘WE will commence a ballot for strike action in seven days’ time,’ Fire Brigades Union General Secretary Matt Wrack announced to a demonstration of...
‘BIG SUPPORT FOR US’ – In London region say Gate Gourmet locked-out workers
GATE GOURMET locked out workers are winning great support in the London Region TGWU, and attended a meeting earlier this week. Locked out worker...
PASSENGERS AT RISK! – if BA uses strikebreakers
The Unite union yesterday warned that British Airways’ passengers could be put at risk by inexperienced strike-breaking cabin crew. As BA began its conversion courses...
UK Military support Saudi entry into Syria!
THE UK is ready to back up the newly founded Saudi coalition ground army, with air support in Syria, British military sources told the...
ISRAELI PLANES BOMBING GAZA – Mofaz rules out Palestinian state for years ahead
ISRAEL has ruled out peace and even an interim accord with the Palestinian leadership and the Palestinian people, kicking the ‘peace process’...
BUS DRIVERS STRIKE! – for £30,000 a year & 38-hour week
METROBUS and First Centrewest Buses stopped throughout London yesterday. Metrobus is out for 24 hours while First Centrewest Buses are stopped for 48...
Grenfell Tower – ‘We paid the price’
‘WE paid the price of systematic dishonesty, institutional indifference and neglect,’ Natasha Elcock, Chair of Grenfell United, said in the shadow of Grenfell Tower...
‘Welfare Reform Kills!’
UP TO one hundred trade unionists, disabled campaigners and their supporters demonstrated yesterday outside Maximus, the company who have taken over the work-capability assessment,...
Call Off The Talks!
‘Our union executive should immediately call off the talks with Royal Mail until the threats of redundancy, total flexibility, and attacks on our pension...
Herts FBU Striking Against Massive Cuts!
Hertfordshire fire crews are today striking from 2pm to 10pm against cuts in frontline personnel and fire stations. Hertfordshire Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has also...
Greek Decree For Mass Sackings & Wage Cuts
The Greek government of Prime Minister Yiorghos Papandreou has unveiled the contents of a Presidential Decree which would allow for mass sackings, at half...
TORIES PLAY RACE CARD – as Queen’s Speech lashes workers
VICIOUS attacks on workers, especially immigrant workers, were at the centre of the Tory-LibDem Coalition’s Queen’s Speech delivered at the State...
Labour leader Starmer ‘should be backing staff not the bosses’ says UCU
LABOUR Party leader Starmer ‘should be backing staff, not the bosses’, says the UCU trade union. The union was responding to Labour leader Keir Starmer’s...
Israel Assassinates a Hezbollah Commander
LEBANON’S Hezbollah movement reported that senior Hezbollah commander Wissam al-Tawil, also known as ‘Jawad’, was assassinated in an Israeli airstrike in the south of...
Record 5.45m NHS waiting list – Nurses warn of staffing crisis
A RECORD number of people, more than 5.45 million, are waiting for NHS hospital treatment in England. Responding to the latest NHS England performance data,...
‘Ceasefire agreement will hold!’ – insists Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya
HAMAS leader and chief negotiator Khalil al-Hayya said yesterday that he is confident the Gaza ceasefire agreement will succeed and hold. ‘We are determined to...
Zionist snipers shoot three at Nasser Hospital
THREE Palestinians sheltering inside the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza’s biggest health centre, were shot dead by Zionist snipers yesterday, with another...
BIN PAY CUT PLANS says GMB leader Kenny
Trade unions yesterday reacted angrily to demands from the Institute of Directors (IoD) to end national collective bargaining in the NHS and Education sectors,...
Johnson-Sunak Are Criminals Say The Met Police!
PM JOHNSON and Chancellor Sunak are criminals according to the Police! Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak will be issued fines – officially known as fixed...
No date for next meeting – Merkel
TORY PM May was slapped down again yesterday as German Chancellor Merkel said that no progress was made on Brexit and that a date...
Greek Radio & Tv Technicians Picket Labour Ministry
About 100 Greek radio and TV technicians and journalists gathered outside the building of the Ministry for Labour in central Athens at midday on...
Family of Jean Charles de Menezes visit site of their son’s murder
A distraught Maria Otone de Menezes visiting Stockwell tube station yesterday, the site of her son's murder. she called for her son, Jean Charles'...
GENERAL STRIKE IN PALESTINE! – Day of Rage today
A GENERAL strike across the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem was solid yesterday, with all Palestinian workers on strike and shops and businesses...
Hunt announces EU coalition to patrol Gulf
‘COBRA emergency meetings were held this morning and throughout the weekend. We must now take appropriate action to support the safe passage of vessels...
LABOUR WILL VICTIMISE LOW PAID – insists Hutton
Business Secretary John Hutton yesterday ruled out a rethink on the decision to scrap the lowest tax band, amid claims that the Brown government...
‘OPPOSE HEALTH BILL!’ – Unison urges
UNISON yesterday called on peers to oppose the Health Bill today, during its second reading in the House of Lords today. The UK’s largest public...
Iran’s new leader vows revenge for Minab school massacre
IRAN’S new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei made his first public statement since succeeding his father yesterday, vowing that Iran would avenge the blood of...
‘Azelle Rodney Executed!’ – An Unlawful Killing
‘THIS report has found that there was no lawful justification for my son’s killing by the police. ‘He was shot eight times in only two...
NO STRIKES–WAGE FREEZE – agreed by Unite
CALLUM MacLean, Ineos Grangemouth chairman, was exultant yesterday as he told the media that Unite the union had agreed to a three-year pay freeze,...
‘We won’t accept closures!’ says FBU leader Matt Wrack
SEVERAL thousand firefighters and supporters yesterday lobbied the London Fire Authority meeting in Southwark which was to vote on the London Fire Commissioner’s revised...
Woodley Postpones BA Cabin Crew Ballot
Unite joint general secretary Tony Woodley yesterday said the union has ‘postponed’ Tuesday’s ballot for further strike action at British Airways to consider a...
No To Nurse Apprentices!
TORY Health Secretary Hunt’s announ-cement yesterday that there are to be 1,000 nurse apprentices in hospitals was condemned by health professionals and unions yesterday. Rehana...
University fees & loan hikes rushed through!
LEGISLATION has been raced through Parliament before it breaks up for the general election which allows universities to raise tuition fees every year until...
JOHNSON URGES MPs TO SUPPORT HIS WAR ON RUSSIA!
PRIME Minister Boris Johnson spent less than five minutes apologising over ‘Partygate’ to the House of Commons yesterday, before putting it to one side. He...