‘COMPLETE DEADLOCK!’ – Barnier will not recommend further progress
‘ON THIS basis I am not able, in the current circumstances, to recommend to the European Council that we should start discussion on the...
‘IT’S TIME TO MAKE A STAND!’ – Unison’s Prentis tells TUC Congress
DELEGATES at the TUC Congress yesterday unanimously voted for Composite Motion 7 on Public Sector Pay and Living Standards. This includes the call on the...
Look For Jobs And Lose Your Homes!
Work and Pensions Secretary Duncan Smith yesterday revived former Thatcher minister Tebbit’s savage ‘on your bike’ attack on the unemployed. Duncan Smith announced plans for...
FBU Pensions Victory!
THE FIRE Brigades Union (FBU) has won a landmark ruling in its dispute with the government over changes made to firefighters’ pensions in 2015....
‘We must stop the A&E closures’ – Doctors reply to Nicholson
‘IT can’t be done’ Southwest London hospital consultant Dr Philip Howard told News Line yesterday in response to a call for more A&E closures...
FBU welcomes Jobs March
SUPPORT for the 248-mile Young Socialists March for Jobs from London to the Liverpool TUC Congress grew on its second day, as Bedfordshire firefighters...
6 Months Of Gate Gourmet Lock-Out!
‘Next Friday will be six months since we were locked out on August 10th 2005’, locked out Gate Gourmet worker Lakhinder Saran told News...
Government rides roughshod! – Cameron excludes health professionals
‘DON’T you dare lie to me!’ angry pensioner June Hautot shouted at Health Secretary Lansley as she confronted him at the entrance to Downing...
REFORMS ‘A THREAT TO NHS’ – GPs Conference resolution
OVER half of GPs planning to retire in the next two years say NHS reforms are a reason for them going, according to preliminary...
JAIL TIME FOR BANKERS – raised at parliamentary committee
EX-Barclays Chief Executive Bob Diamond was asked point blank yesterday if he believed bankers who broke the law should be jailed. He was asked the...
Half Acute Hospitals In London Under Threat!
THE House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report on the requirement for all the remaining 113 hospital trusts to achieve foundation business status...
Rapidly rising support for ‘no deal!’
WITH a ComRes poll revealing yesterday that public support for a no-deal Brexit is rapidly rising, up 6% since January and now standing at...
TOYOTA 10% WAGE CUT – praised by Unite trade union
Car manufacturer Toyota yesterday announced that production at its UK plants would be cut by ten per cent, with an associated cut in wages...
‘A TOTAL DECLARATION OF WAR’ – Nigerian unions slam doubling of fuel price
THE Nigerian trade unions have called for a mass mobilisation of ‘strikes, street demonstrations and mass protests across the country’ in response...
Striking SA miners defy sack threat
STRIKING platinum miners at Lonmin’s Marikana mine in South Africa defied the company’s sack threats yesterday and refused to return to work. The 3,000 striking...
Home Office: ‘obscene moneymaking machine’
IN LIGHT of the Windrush scandal, ‘obscene’ Home Office fees have been slammed by campaigners who brand the Home Office as ‘a money-making machine’...
Junior Doctors Still Demanding 35%
RESPONDING to yesterday’s recommendation from the Review Body on Doctors’ and Dentists’ Remuneration (DDRB) and the government’s acceptance of that recommendation, the BMA says...
Liverpool City Council ‘in partnership’ with army! – over testing crisis
FLANKED by Brigadier Joe Fossey, Tory PM Johnson set out the mass testing programme trialled in Liverpool in which 2,000 troops have been sent...
UN condemns Israeli army killing of Palestinian women as part of genocide strategy
THE United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, Reem Salama, has confirmed that the Israeli occupation army has used the killing...
Scrap ‘racist’ Matrix database
THE METROPOLITAN Police are using a ‘racially discriminatory’ Gangs Matrix database, Amnesty International accuses in its new report launched yesterday. Amnesty’s UK Director Kate...
BIG SOCIETY A BIG CON – says Unison
PRIME Minister Cameron explained to an audience of ‘social entrepreneurs’ in London yesterday that the ‘Big Society’ means ‘opening up’ public services to being...
‘we Want Leaders Who Fight For The Workers’
‘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...
Armed Police Arrest Brian Haw
The Peace Camp in Parliament Square was brutally raided by armed police with dogs at 8am yesterday morning and its leaders were arrested and...
School students march in Athens
THOUSANDS of school pupils and student protesters in Athens tried to breach the barricades in front of the parliament building last Thursday. They faced...
Israel Planning Iran April Strike
US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta believes there is a ‘strong likelihood’ that Israel will strike Iran’s nuclear installations this spring, the Washington Post said...
REJECT CWU SELL-OUT – call angry CWU members
THE CWU (Communications Workers Union) yesterday accepted the Royal Mail offer on pay along with plans to modernise the company and reform the...
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,...
Fires burn across Kuwait’s largest refinery for 2nd day
FIRES burned across Kuwait’s largest oil refinery for a second consecutive day as Iran widened its strikes on Gulf energy infrastructure, while Tehran warned...
Thousands Of Parents, Pupils & Teachers To Defy Tories Today!
THOUSANDS of teachers, as well as the parents of hundreds of thousands pupils, are set to defy the government’s instructions for Reception, Year 1...
100,000 Jobs To Go After Xmas!
‘Public sector job losses are coming thick and fast. Councils in particular are bringing forward job losses in order to cope with the deep...
Liberty to sell steel plant 5,000 jobs in the balance – Nationalise the entire...
FIVE THOUSAND steel jobs hang in the balance as steel giant Liberty announced plans to sell its plant in Stocksbridge, Sheffield, as part of...
8,000 firefighters taking industrial action!
Almost 8,000 firefighters in England, almost one in five, will be taking some form of industrial action from tomorrow, in a series of regional...
No To Cheap Labour Teachers!
TWO TEACHING unions have strongly criticised a minimum wage internship for teachers run by Stranmillis University College in Belfast. The NASUWT said the scheme should...
‘SLAP IN THE FACE’ – UNISON slams NHS Direct job cuts
THE sacking of nearly 800 staff was announced yesterday at NHS Direct – the NHS helpline created by the Blair government in 1997. The mass...
Hunt’s budget – a war on jobs and services! budget today!
THE LOCAL Government Association condemned Chancellor Hunt’s attempt to dress up his budget onslaught on public services as a ‘war on woke’ yesterday, pointing...
NHS Winter Crisis
THE NHS needs a long-term plan rather than a short-term fix, doctors’ leaders said yesterday. Fearing a winter crisis in the NHS in England, the...
‘No option but to escalate!’ says Doctor Malawana
THOUSANDS of junior doctors joined more than 140 picket lines across England yesterday to protest against the imposition of a new contract. Junior doctors took...
Gate Gourmet Tribunal Review
Gate Gourmet sacked workers outside the Reading Tribunal last Friday, where they were seeking a review of the tribunal judge’s decision that their 32...
Bbc World Service Workers Back Caterers
‘THE BBC says it subscribes to “BBC values”, but it would appear BBC Values do not apply to contractors such as Aramark.’ BECTU General Secretary...
Blackburn College Sacking Staff But Boosting Bosses’ Pensions!
LECTURERS are furious after Blackburn College announced plans to sack staff but boost bosses’ pensions. 29 jobs are at risk in the fifth round of...
Israeli Military Attacks Kamal Adwan Hospital
THE Israeli military has once again attacked the Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, brutally abducting medical staff and patients before taking...
BofE prints £50bn more – Barclays ‘uncertain future’ warns Moody’s
THE Bank of England is to extend its Quantitative Easing (QE) programme (printing money) by another £50bn over the next four months in a...
Nurses using bin bags as PPE test POSITIVE!
NURSES at Northwick Park Hospital in Harrow, north west London, were forced to wear bin bags because of a lack of Personal Protective Equipment...
Russia demands joint investigation with UK
‘TODAY, Scotland Yard and the British government are refusing to communicate with us, no answer, the telephones are switched off. And that brings...
‘Flawed algorithm’ throws unemployed to the wolves
UNIVERSAL CREDIT claimants have been thrown into destitution, poverty, homelessness and starvation as a direct result of a ‘flawed algorithm’ a damning new welfare...