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Picket lines are out at BBC sites across the country today as 10,000 workers from all three BBC unions – BECTU, NUJ and Amicus...

SPORTS Direct, the infamous zero-hours employer, is asking shareholders to approve £11m in back pay for Mike Ashley’s brother John. Unite assistant general secretary Steve...

UNITE has called ‘targeted’ strike action at Heathrow Airport Limited (HAL) from Friday 2nd April to Sunday 25th April, with 41 strikes over the...

‘NO one has investigated what happened that day in Khan Sheikoun,’ said President Assad yesterday. ‘As you know Khan Sheikoun is under the control...

Northern Ireland Assembly Deputy First Minister and Sinn Fein MP Martin McGuinness yesterday slammed the redeployment of British Army Special Forces in the North...

PREMIER Brown’s plans for the NHS to refuse to treat patients whose lifestyles are judged to be responsible for their illnesses...

‘WE HAVE got to make our case, explaining our vision house by house, street by street, town by town’, Labour leader Ed Miliband...

THE BIRMINGHAM bin strikers are fighting against an attempt by the leaders of their union, Unite, to call off their more than one-year-long struggle...

A GENERAL STRIKE for Palestine takes place in Spain today, with the different unions maintaining their calls for worldwide action to end the genocide...

A COACHLOAD of sacked workers from Stead McAlpin and J H Birtwistle factories, formerly owned by John Lewis, yesterday lobbied the John Lewis Partnership...

‘Will the present inquiry by the Cabinet Secretary examine whether or not the Home Office acted improperly in relation to an extradition request for...

THE ROYAL College of GPs (RCGP) has sounded the alarm over the crisis in general practice, calling yesterday for an urgent emergency rescue plan. Professor...

The Unite union yesterday condemned the sacking by British Airways of a senior Unite official, BASSA branch secretary Duncan Holley, as ‘another act of...

THE leadership of the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) was shaken at the union’s biennial delegate conference in Brighton yesterday, when a substantial...

LOCKED-OUT Gate Gourmet workers are campaigning all this week for their march and rally in Southall on Sunday December 4. Speaking on the picket line...

Fourteen American soldiers were killed in northern Iraq yesterday when their Blackhawk transport helicopter came down during a pre-dawn flight, US command said in...

PATIENTS at the Royal London hospital in Whitechapel, East London, are facing the prospect of ‘food chaos’ later this month, after workers employed by...

GATE Gourmet workers lobbied the TUC General Council in central London yesterday. They brought their banner: ‘Justice for the Sacked Gate Gourmet Workers’ and...

THE UNITE and GMB trade unions have appealed to the government to announce a bespoke financial package to save the beleaguered aviation industry. The two...

Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas yesterday suspended the ‘peace negotiations’ and contacts with Israel until the Israeli ‘criminal aggression’ on Gaza stops. An emergency meeting of...

LONDON'S Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Trust and Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust will be the first to walk out in new wave of...

‘IT’S time for Labour to come clean on university fees,’ the University and College union (UCU) said on Friday, as it called for education...

TORY PM May would not commit to a vote on her Brexit deal yesterday before Parliament breaks up for Christmas and instead said: ‘I...

HIGHLY respected London GP Dr Augustine Obaro died from Covid-19 on New Year’s Day, becoming the 15th GP lost to the pandemic. Dr Obaro, who...

THE GMB trade union has reiterated its stance of refusing to enter talks at Rhondda Cynon Taff in response to the issuance of a...

TORY PM Boris Johnson yesterday confirmed that if all attempts to get a deal with the EU fail then he is prepared leave the...

TODAY junior doctors meet at their conference in central London to decide the next step in their battle against Tory health secretary Hunt’s imposed...

‘IT is not enough for tuition fees to be reduced they must be abolished in their entirety!’ said Joshua Ogunleye, national secretary of the...

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...

Official figures out yesterday showed that UK unemployment has hit an 11-year high, with the number of people out of work in the three...

THE number of young people in long-term unemployment has soared by 41.9 per cent in the last year, the latest unemployment figures from the...

LABOUR MP Chris Williamson was allowed back into the party yesterday morning after an investigation into comments he made about the party’s handling of...

NATIONWIDE demonstrations in France on Tuesday demanding better pay and resources for health workers were the subject of repeated police attacks. 18,000 people attended demonstrations...

‘GORDON BROWN hear us say – our contracts are here to stay! shouted eighty Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) members and officials outside...

HAMAS has called on Palestinians to defend their land, homes and rights by all means available in the face of Israeli demolitions, killings and...

‘More than 30 maternity and A&E units have been shut down, downgraded or threatened with closure since May’s general election, despite the government’s promise...

Despite torrential rain, over 20,000 youth and workers with their families congregated for the second night running in Athens’ main square in front of...

THE chief political commentator of the Daily Telegraph, Peter Oborne, who resigned from the newspaper on Tuesday, yesterday called for an independent review of...

Hamas has confirmed that Saleh al-Arouri, the deputy head of its political bureau, was killed in a blast in the Dahiyeh neighbourhood of the...

THE Standard and Poor’s ratings agency has threatened to bankrupt the major eurozone states by shredding their triple A status. This would make it impossible...

UNIVERSITY and College Union (UCU) branch representatives will meet at 11am on Wednesday 28 March to discuss members’ feedback on a new pensions offer...

OVER 70,000 UCU members at 150 universities are striking again today in a three-day action which began yesterday and is due to conclude tomorrow,...

IRAN will ‘irreversibly’ destroy vital energy and fuel infrastructure across the region if the United States attacks power plants inside the country, Parliament Speaker...

MOTHERS from across the United States poured into Washington, DC on Saturday, choosing Mother’s Day weekend to march for justice for the ‘epidemic’ of...

ANGRY teachers and students fought with police yesterday in Salonica, turning Tsimiski Street, a central highway of the city, into a battleground. The normally festive...