Southern rail ‘gambling with passenger safety’ – TUC
TUC deputy general secretary Paul Novak joined RMT striking Southern rail guards on their morning picket line at London’s Victoria station yesterday. Novak told News...
Rough Sleeping Doubles!
HOMELESSNESS charity St Mungo’s revealed yesterday that 129 rough sleepers died in London since 2010 – an average of one a fortnight – while...
Huge sussex education cuts!
HEAD teachers from all 250 primary schools in West Sussex have written to Theresa May to demand an extra £20 million as they face...
Aslef Driver Only Strike Ballot
TRAIN drivers in the ASLEF union are to join their RMT colleagues in an escalating struggle against Driver Only Operated (DOO) on Southern...
MOSUL OFFENSIVE BEGINS – ‘The hour of our victory has come’ says Iraqi PM
THE ASSAULT on the Iraqi city of Mosul has begun, with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announcing in a televised address in the early...
‘Obsessive’ Grammars Slammed
CHIEF Inspector of Schools Sir Michael Wilshaw has criticised Tory PM Theresa May’s ‘obsessive’ plan to approve a new wave of selective grammar schools...
Cut £72m agency spend! – to solve the midwife crisis
CUTTING the amount the NHS spends on agency midwives would solve the midwife shortage, says the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) in a new...
Re-open maternity & children’s wards – demands Ealing mass picket
DOCTORS, nurses and NHS staff on hearing the demands blasting out of the megaphone ‘Re-open Maternity! Re-open the Charlie Chaplin childrens’ ward!’ stopped to...
‘Defend GP Practices’ – BMA
THE BMA and GPs have condemned the way that NHS England and Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) are treating GP Practices. Dr...
‘General strike to defend Southern guards’ – RMT
‘THIS attack on our union is an attack on all unions,’ John Reid, RMT NEC told News Line yesterday morning. Reid was speaking on the...
Women denied treatment
MIDWIVES, doctors and patients alike are up in arms over moves to deny pregnant women NHS treatment. St George’s Hospital in Tooting, south west...
Guards Strike Solid!
‘WE WANT all trade unions to come out in our support if any of our members is sacked. Behind this is a threat to...
Parliament pushes to bomb Syrian troops
PUSHING for the UK to begin openly bombing Syrian army positions and to consider taking action against Russian aircraft, Tory MP for Sutton Coldfield,...
Southern guards strike today
‘THE Southern guards strike will go ahead, despite any legal challenge,’ RMT Assistant General Secretary Mick Lynch said defiantly on the eve of...
‘Save our NHS!’ – Huddersfield, Banbury, Stafford and Grantham join NHS campaigners in London...
‘ALL the unions should take part in a Day of Action for the NHS,’ Steve Mathan of Hands Off HRI told News Line yesterday. Over...
Teachers 60-Hour Week ‘Unacceptable!’
‘TEACHERS working 60 hours a week is totally unacceptable and is exacerbating the teacher shortage,’ warns Kevin Courtney, General Secretary of the National Union...
Ritzy strikes back!
‘OUR strike is very effective. The cinema is completely closed down!’ BECTU rep and Ritzy cinema worker, Kelly Rogers, told News Line yesterday. Workers at...
Guards strike is on! – as Southern says it will sack every guard!
THE BATTLE is on! RMT confirmed yesterday that the Southern guards’ strike is going ahead. Meanwhile Southern Rail confirmed it will carry...
Don’t implement contract urges BMA
DO NOT implement the new junior doctors contracts, the BMA urged NHS Trusts yesterday, the day the new contracts were due to be rolled...
May Peddles Tory Charade
YESTERDAY PM Theresa May set out her ‘vision for Britain after Brexit’ in a key note speech to their party conference in Birmingham in...
Hunt is driving doctors out! Restore strikes!
‘IT IS a very hollow gesture, to open up more spaces while simultaneously driving doctors out of the profession,’ said Dr Aislinn Macklin-Doherty. She was...
‘Call off strikes or be sacked!’ – Southern rail managers declare war on staff
IN AN unprecedented attack on the right to strike, Southern rail managers have given the RMT union the following ultimatum: call off all...
‘No end to austerity’ – Hammond
NEW Tory Chancellor Philip Hammond made it absolutely crystal clear yesterday that there would be no end to austerity under his watch. Speaking to the...
US Airstrikes Kill 9 Aleppo Civilians
US-led coalition airstrikes on Syria killed nine civilians in the east of the town of Mare, approximately 25 kilometres north of Aleppo yesterday. Meanwhile, the...
Disabled condemn ‘pre-conference spin’
‘THIS is just pre-conference spin to try to improve the Tories toxic reputation on their shabby treatment of disabled people,’ said Disabled People Against...
NHS unions demand pay rise!
THE RCN and other unions representing health service employees in the UK yesterday called on the NHS pay review body to recommend an above-inflation...
STPs preparing savage NHS cuts & hospital closures
‘TOP TIPS on making difficult decisions’ are being distributed to health bodies around the country to aid them in broaching the subject of hospital...
‘Get ready for a General Election’ says Corbyn
‘TODAY we put ourselves on notice. Labour is preparing for a general election in 2017,’ said Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn concluding his hour-long speech...
Labour To Repeal Health And Social Care Act!
A LABOUR government will repeal the Health and Social Care Act,’ Dianne Abbott shadow health secretary said to cheers at the Labour Party...
Rail Strikes Spread
RAIL strikes are spreading with RMT announcing yesterday a 24 hour strike action on Virgin trains East Coast over the threat to nearly 200...
Junior Doctors oppose suspension of strikes!
THE Junior Doctors’ Alliance has issued a statement opposing Saturday’s announcement by the BMA leadership of the ‘suspension’ of its planned five-day strike actions...
The return of the racketeer landlord! – over one million tenants are suffering says...
NEW research released today has revealed that in the last year alone over a million – or one in eight – private renters across...
Hunt ‘assumed powers’ he never had
TORY health secretary Jeremy Hunt’s decision to forcibly impose the new contract on the junior doctors was wrong because he does not have the...
North Carolina State Of Emergency!
THE GOVERNOR of North Carolina declared ‘a state of emergency’ yesterday after two nights of protests in Charlotte following the police shooting...
Nurseries Crisis!
NEW government funding proposals will force nursery schools to close, warns the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT). Yesterday was the deadline for submissions to...
‘CUTS WITHOUT THOUGHT’ – condemned by RCN nurses
‘THIS report highlights yet another case of cuts without thought for the impact on staff and patients,’ said Stephanie Aiken, RCN Deputy Director of...
End All Zero-Hours Contracts At Barts
LONDON NHS workers have called a demonstration today outside The Old Town Hall in Stratford to protest about hospital workers being forced into abusive...
1,250 Manchester Firefighters To Be Sacked!
FIREFIGHTERS are furious at plans to sack the entire workforce of Greater Manchester. All 1,250 firefighters in the area are to be sacked. Only those...
RAF joins US in Syrian air strike – 62 Syrian army killed
THE BRITISH airforce has admitted its involvement in the US-led airstrikes which killed over 60 Syrian Army troops and injured over 100 more. It has...
2,500 refugees’ lifejackets placed outside parliament
OVER 2,500 lifejackets were placed on the lawn outside parliament, in Parliament Square yesterday, each representing the life of a refugee man, woman or...
US has lost all control in Syria says Churkin
THE UNITED States air strike on Deir Ez-zor on Saturday, which killed 62 Syrian soldiers, means the US has lost control over the situation...
‘Slippery Slope To NHS Privatisation’
‘THIS SORT of service is the slippery slope towards the privatisation of the NHS,’ Dr Applebee, chair of Tower Hamlets Local Medical Committee warned...
Bma Votes To Proceed With Five-Day Strikes!
DESPITE enormous pressure being piled onto the junior doctors to capitulate and either shorten their strikes or call them off altogether, the BMA has...
‘The Junior Doctors’ dispute is for all of us’ says TUC – however it...
‘THE junior doctors’ dispute is an issue for all of us,’ declared Unison delegate James Anthony moving Emergency Motion 5 Support for the BMA...
‘Full Public Inquiry Into Blacklisting’
‘WE demand a full public inquiry into blacklisting!’ Gail Cartmail, assistant general secretary of Unite said while addressing the TUC conference in Brighton yesterday. Speaking...