Labour Offers Nurses Three Years Of Wage Cutting
The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) yesterday rejected an 8% over three years pay-cutting NHS Pay Review Body offer, which is backed by the...
Bin workers reject pay cut capitulation deal!
'THERE’S no mention of the massive £8,000 pay cut. If it’s not satisfactory we’re quite prepared to reject this deal and vote to stay...
‘WE’LL OPPOSE ATTACKS ON RIGHTS’ –pledges TUC
‘Unions stand ready to oppose the attacks on workplace rights contained in the Beecroft Report,’ a TUC spokesman told News Line yesterday. ‘Attacking workers’ rights...
REVOLUTIONARY MAY DAY! – News Line Editorial Board Statement
THE News Line editorial board sends its revolutionary greetings on this May Day to the insurgent workers of Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine. The Iraqi insurgency...
Stop Torture Bring Binyam Home
A DEMONSTRATION outside the American Embassy in Grosvenor Square central London yesterday afternoon demanded the immediate release of Binyam Mohamed from Guantanamo Bay. ‘Binyam must...
UBS fined for mortgage mis-selling
UBS is paying a 700 million Swiss francs ($745 million) fine to settle a case over its mis-selling of mortgage-backed securities to Fannie Mae...
‘NHS In Crisis – Pm In Denial’ – Corbyn
TORY PM May hit out at the British Red Cross at Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) in the House of Commons yesterday, describing its warnings...
STATE SPYING: Police launch facial recognition app – UN slams state spying on disabled!
SOUTH Wales Police have launched a facial recognition app which is to be installed on their officers’ phones, prompting human rights campaigners Liberty to...
BANK OF ENGLAND BLOCKADED! – by tens of thousands of youth
TENS of thousands of people demonstrated from mid-day yesterday outside the Bank of England against bankers,capitalism and the G20 summit. They...
Teacher Shortage Crisis Worsens!
THE TORIES are failing to tackle the acute teacher shortage crisis in schools across England, a committee of MPs said yesterday. The Education Select Committee...
CIA Drone Terrorism Targets Rescuers
A REPORT published yesterday by Stanford University and New York University warns that the CIA’s drone campaign ‘terrorises men, women and children’ in North-West...
‘NO DEAL’ WOULD BREAK UP THE PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM says Grieve
DOMINIC Grieve, the Beaconsfield Tory MP, has told BBC Newsnight that in the event of a no-deal Brexit, Parliament would ‘assert its authority’. He told...
RMT London Transport strike ballot
THE RMT ann-ounced yesterday that it is to ballot all of its London Transport members for strike action from Monday as TfL (Transport for...
AMBULANCE CRISIS – Handover delays put patients at ‘catastrophic risk’ of harm
PATIENTS are being put at ‘catastrophic risk’ of harm due to ambulance handover delays, NHS managers warned yesterday. West Midlands Ambulance Service (WMAS) has raised...
PM May’s 10-year NHS plan a fraud!
YESTERDAY’S claim by Tory PM May that she will hand over an extra £20bn a year to the NHS was described by Labour’s Shadow...
100,000 besieged in northern Gaza!
ABOUT 100,000 people are besieged in Jabalia, Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza without medical or food supplies, the Palestinian Civil Emergency...
Labour Right Wing Plans For Two Parties!
TORY MP Andrew Bridgen yesterday claimed that Labour MPs who expect Jeremy Corbyn to retain the leadership of the party by winning...
‘SHOCK AND DISBELIEF’ – of de Menezes family at new police killing
The family of Jean Charles de Menezes yesterday expressed ‘shock and disbelief at the news that officers involved in the killing of Jean Charles...
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...
BLAIR WARNING FOR CHAVEZ AND EVO MORALES – at EU-Americas talks
UK Prime Minister Blair yesterday attacked the Bolivian and Venezuelan presidents over their moves to end the foreign exploitation of their countries’ gas...
FIGHT PAY CUTS! – call from public service rally
GIVE us a date for strike action and we’ll do it, the leader of the Prison Officers Association (POA) – whose members are banned...
GPs REJECT VIRGIN OFFER – of share of privatisation spoils
GPs yesterday opposed plans by Virgin Healthcare to offer GPs 10% of the profits it plans to make from private services including dentistry, therapies...
BEIS 3-day strike – ‘We demand Living Wage!’
OUTSOURCED workers, who provide catering and cleaning services in government offices, took the first of three days of strike yesterday demanding the London Living...
London FBU To Vote On Strike Action
Fire Brigade Union (FBU) members in London are to vote on industrial action ‘up to and including strikes’ by 24 June. The London FBU Regional...
Bma Debates Call For Industrial Action
The BMA Consul-tants Conference yesterday heard a call for trade union action to defend the NHS from cuts and privatisation. Moving Motion 138 from North-East...
CAMERON COVERS UP! – as Hunt hands over his e-mails
Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt yesterday said he will hand over private e-mails to his special adviser about the BSkyB takeover bid to the Leveson...
Hunt turns his fire on the sick the disabled and the mentally ill –...
TORY Chancellor Hunt turned his fire on the sick, the disabled, the mentally ill and the unemployed in his vicious, vindictive anti-working class Autumn...
Stop arming US police – demands 250,000-strong petition to UK government
AFTER last Wednesday’s massive march demanding justice for George Floyd, over a quarter of a million people in the UK have intervened in the...
Hamas Kills 8 Israeli Soldiers
THE HAMAS military wing, the al-Qassam Brigades said on Thursday that they had killed eight Israeli soldiers in northeastern Gaza City in what was...
Coventry Council sacks hundreds!
THE UNITE union has described the decision of Coventry council to press ahead and fire and rehire its entire refuse collection workforce as totally...
More Israeli war crimes
HANAN Ashrawi, member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), said the ongoing Israeli escalation against the captive Palestinian population in...
UNLAWFUL KILLING! – to be considered by Tomlinson Jury
Jurors at the inquest into the death of Ian Tomlinson will consider whether the actions of a police officer amounted to unlawful killing, assistant...
Hamas fighters in fierce battles with Israeli army in Jabalia!
The Palestine Red Crescent Society reported yesterday that it has treated numerous Palestinians, including children, injured in the Jabalia area of northern Gaza, even...
HOSPITAL CLOSURES! –will result from payment by results system says BMA
‘Flaws in the Payment by Results (PbR) system mean that whole hospital departments could be unfairly closed down as “inefficient”,’ warns the British Medical...
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...
Alarming A&E Waiting Times
THE British Medical Association (BMA) has warned that a million more patients will face waits of more than four hours at accident and emergency...
Marching For A Living Wage!
RITZY Cinema workers, on their ninth day of strike action, marched with 200 supporters and trade unionists from the British Film Institute (BFI) yesterday. What...
Ryanair Pilots Down Tools!
RYANAIR pilots have downed tools today causing huge cost to the company after Ryanair managers again refused to enter talks to end the long...
No Wage Growth In 2018 Says Resolution Foundation!
THE just-published Resolution Foundation report says that real wage growth will be flat in 2018 and that many households are already pessimistic about...
Leap In Inflation – Prices Soaring!
inflation leapt last month on the back of a 20% hike in education costs and soaring food prices. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said...
GENERAL STRIKE TO BRING THIS GOVERNMENT DOWN! say Aslef pickets
OVER 20,000 railway worker members of Aslef and the RMT unions were on strike yesterday, with powerful picket lines outside scores of stations all...
Passengers ‘lives at risk’ without guards
A DERAILMENT in Lewisham south London is a case in point about why guards must be kept on the trains, transport union RMT said...
GPs sent instead of ambulances!
NURSES and GPs in County Durham are being told to act as first responders ahead of ambulances as North-East paramedics struggle to cope with...
‘CWU to strike in October!’ – Billy Hayes
COMMUNICATION Workers Union (CWU) General Secretary, Billy Hayes, told his pre-Congress press conference yesterday that the CWU will be taking strike action in October. He...