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UNITE Rep at Barts and Whipps Cross hospitals, Leonard Hockey spoke to News Line about the delegation that joined the St Thomas and Guy’s...

THE following is a statement by COSATU: ‘DESPITE three vacancies in the executive and a deputy president who wants out, South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa...

UNITE is prepared to accept the Tories’ plans for thresholds for industrial action ballots. The union said in a statement yesterday: ‘The prime minister has...

END the pay freeze for midwives and give them the same percentage pay increase as managers, the Royal College of Midwives has demanded, in...

‘The NUT will support all those school communities – heads, teachers, parents and governors – who resist forced Academy status’, pledged NUT General Secretary...

THE BANK of England has raised interest rates to their highest levels in almost 15 years. The base rate has risen from 4.25% to 4.5%...

BANK of England Governor King admitted yesterday that risks to the UK economy from ‘difficulties facing the euro area’ are ‘impossible to quantify’. King was...

PALESTINIAN resistance movement Hamas has filed a legal challenge in the UK against its designation as a ‘proscribed terrorist organisation’, marking a significant move...

THREE UK towns are to have hundreds of British Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force military personnel mobilised onto their streets organising mass...

GREEK workers have embarked on a series of occupations of state and municipal buildings as well as mass marches. The actions follow the announcement by...

DOCTORS yesterday hit back at Tory Health Secretary Hunt, who had tried to claim that changes to GP contracts were to blame for A&E...

THE GMB yesterday at its annual Congress in Blackpool demanded that the owner of the American Dry Cleaning Company, Julian Stone, reinstate two...

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...

HUNDREDS of migrants have been coralled in scorching temperatures in a makeshift reception centre at a sports stadium on the Greek island of Kos. Hundreds...

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...

SQUADS of the Greek anti-terrorist units and riot police armed with automatic weapons, early on Thursday morning occupied the small coastal town of Ierissos...

Parliament is being recalled again tomorrow, to debate the youth uprising that is sweeping Britain. After he had chaired a Cabinet Office meeting of the...

‘CAMERON’S speech today, with the five fake pledges on the NHS, signify that the coalition government is going full steam ahead with the...

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has launched a back-stabbing attack on the British Airways workers and their union, demanding that their strike planned to...

‘WE ARE STRONG, united and determined to win,’ and ‘We are fighting for the survival of Brunel University,’ University and College Union (UCU) strikers declared...

THE largest rail union, the RMT, has written to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) to demand the withdrawal of plans to...

THE Fire Brigades Union has welcomed an offer from the government in Northern Ireland that would allow firefighters to retire at 55 without financial...

SUPPORTING calls for a general strike, leading Labour MP John McDonnell said he supports ‘co-ordinated action’. He also condemned Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer...

The NHS faces a crunch week, says the Unite union. It has issued a statement saying prime minister Cameron’s pledges on the health service were...

CONSULTANTS in England ended two days of strike action at 7am today. In the absence of any progress in discussions with the government, they will...

A LEADING CWU (Communication Workers Union) representative in the Midlands yesterday said a national strike was needed to tackle ‘all our difficulties’. Malcolm Brundrett, CWU...

‘THE TUC and its affiliates must fight for the policy they voted for, to increase the minimum wage to £10 an hour,’ Bakers Union...

HUNDREDS of firefighters from fire brigades across the UK marked the fifth anniversary of the Grenfell disaster yesterday by participating in the silent walk...

COVENTRY postal workers are preparing for strike action to defend their jobs and their mail centre, a leading CWU officer said yesterday. Royal Mail is...

PREMIER Blair boycotted the House of Commons debate on Iraq yesterday in an unprecedented show of contempt for the bourgeois parliament. Before he left the...

BUSINESS Secretary Mandelson emerged from his meeting with union officials and the top General Motors management in Luton yesterday unable to guarantee the...

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday warned that nearly 27,000 NHS jobs have been earmarked to be cut in the UK, 18,000 of...

GP LEADERS yesterday slammed as ‘unacceptable’ the decision by St Helens Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) to suspend the non-urgent referral of patients to local...

Parents are facing a hidden £15,000 bill to send their children to medical school, says a new BMA report. Many families are being forced to...

THE Visteon Belfast factory’s Unite convenor, John Maguire, said yesterday that he was being excluded from the meeting with the Visteon management. He...

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...

NURSING staff have voted to strike in the majority of NHS employers across the UK. Nursing staff at the majority of NHS employers across the...

LABOUR leadership contender Yvette Cooper has accused some in the party’s leadership contenders of ‘swallowing the Tory manifesto’ following its election defeat. Cooper warned against...

THE employees of a Your Independent Grocer (YIG) franchise – in Cornwall, Ontario – have been on strike since November 23rd, as employer and...

‘UNDERHAND’ plans to fire 50 GB Terminals workers who unload and process Volkswagens at Sheerness docks in Kent have been slammed as a ‘sneaky...

GATE Gourmet workers are opposing a ‘compromise agreement’, which the company and leaders of the Transport and General Workers’ Union are negotiating and which...

BMA DOCTORS want urgent action to tackle poverty and improve public health services after an official report found a strong connection between deprivation and...

THE TORY government has defended its proposed Brexit deal with the EU, following criticism from President Trump, who suggested a Johnson-Farage alliance. Trump told LBC...

THE CRISIS in Sri Lanka escalated yesterday as wild protests broke out on the streets over spiralling fuel and food prices, and daily blackouts...

HAMAS has called on human rights and humanitarian organisations around the world to fulfill their responsibilities in exposing the escalating Israeli crimes and violations...