Yashika Deportation Stopped!

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THE Home Office’s forced deportation of 19-year-old female Mauritian student Yashika Bageerathi was stopped yesterday after Air Mauritius refused to fly her. Yashika, who remains...
March from Barts Hospital to the London Hospital in Whitechapel to defend the NHS which is now under the most vicious attack

GET THE ELDERLY OUT OF HOSPITALS! says NHS Confederation boss

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NHS Confederation chief executive Mike Farrar yesterday launched an attack on NHS hospitals, saying that at least 25 per cent of hospital patients should...

Ni Rise – Experienced Nurses Are £935 A Year Worse Off

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THE National Insurance (NI) rise is leaving experienced nurses worse off, even with the proposed pay increase, says the Royal College of Nursing. Responding to...

Fight Honda Sackings

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THE Unite union yesterday called Honda’s decision to cut 800 jobs at its Swindon plant a ‘hammer blow’ to UK manufacturing and the local...

High risk of harm on shift due to nurse shortage – RCN conference...

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A QUARTER of registered nurses say that their number is so far below what is required that there is now a ‘high risk’ of...
The beginning of the May Day march in Ealing where workers expressed their determination to defend Ealing Hospital against closure threats

No More ‘Planned Births’ At Ealing From June 24!

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A LETTER has been sent out to pregnant women and their families in Ealing announcing the closure of the maternity services on July...
Students and staff from London Metropolitan University lobby of the board of governors on December 15

UNIS WILL BE FORCED TO AXE THOUSANDS – warns Universities UK President

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Thirty per cent funding cuts will force universities to axe thousands of courses, lecturers and students, university bosses’ most senior representative has warned. In...
A section of the rally following the 1,500-strong march in Sutton demanding no cuts to the St Helier Hospital

‘NHS needs 50% more consultants’

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There needs to be a 50 per cent increase in the number of hospital consultants by 2010 to ensure ‘a safe service’, the President...

Brown Attacks The Public Sector

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Prime Minister Brown yesterday outlined plans to slash government employees’ jobs and pay. He said public sector workers earning an ‘over-generous’ salary would be ‘named...

Israeli occupation massacres families in the Gaza Strip!

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ISRAELI occupation forces committed four massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours, resulting in the killing of at least...

Graduating With £25,000 Debt

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The University and College Union (UCU) yesterday warned against further increases to the cost of a university degree after a new survey revealed that...

Labour scraps 4-hour A&E waiting time target

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THE LABOUR government’s so-called refreshed NHS Workforce Plan, which essentially is to keep patients out of hospital and treat them in the community instead,...

Unite’s Grangemouth Surrender

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UNITE general secretary Len McCluskey yesterday said the union had decided to ‘embrace’ a survival plan at Grangemouth put forward by owner Ineos, ‘warts...

‘Time Is Running Out!’ – Unison Health Conference Warns Pm Brown

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‘OUR time and patience is running out.’ This is the warning that Unison leader Dave Prentis is due to give to Prime Minister Gordon Brown...

BMA & RCN condemn Starmer’s NHS ‘Plan for Change’

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PRIME Minister Starmer delivered a speech in a Surrey hospital yesterday morning describing his proposed transformation of the NHS into a largely digital service,...
Unite leaders WOODLEY and SIMPSON (left of picture), on the London May Day march, were yesterday unable to give a

Jaguar – 1300 Jobs To Go!

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The Unite trade union yesterday confirmed it is in talks with Jaguar Land Rover over fears of a further 1,300 job cuts. Unite sent News...
Northern Ireland midwives are insisting that many more are required. Above, they take the first strike action in the union’s history

RECRUIT MORE MIDWIVES – NO AGENCY STAFF! says Royal College of Midwives

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‘WE need an effective and sustainable solution, not a sticking plaster,’ said Jon Skewes, of the Royal College of Midwives, yesterday. Responding to Monitor, the...

‘We Want Action To Win’ Say Gourmet Workers

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GATE GOURMET strikers were on the picket line at Heathrow Airport yesterday in high spirits, after their successful intervention at the TUC in Brighton...

Barber Warning!

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TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber yesterday warned of ‘widespread industrial action’ over public sector pensions. Speaking at a press conference in Congress House, central London,...

‘One solution Revolution!’ says 40,000 crowd outside US embassy

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‘ONE SOLUTION – Revolution’ rang out through the 40,000-strong crowd outside the US embassy in Vauxhall, south-west London yesterday as a mass demonstration broke...

EU crisis meetings over Greece

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GREEK Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is holding meetings with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande this week, in a bid...

SUNAK’S FLEXIBLE FURLOUGH! – to bring in wage and job cuts & part-time working

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‘THE FURLOUGH scheme can not continue indefinitely,’ Tory Chancellor Sunak said yesterday at the Downing Street daily briefing, announcing that by September, the employer...
Campaigners against the scrapping of the Independent Living Fund lobby the High Court

Disabled defend Independent Living Fund!

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Over 50 disabled people demonstrated outside the High Court in London yesterday demanding the government maintain the Independent Living Fund (ILF). Mary Laver from Newcastle...
The NHS has now been going for over 60 years and nurses are determined that it will continue to flourish

25,000 MARCH TO DEFEND LEWISHAM A&E – ‘Take over hospitals and fire stations’ says...

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MORE than 25,000 angry workers, trade unionists, youth and local residents marched through Lewisham in south-east London on Saturday, determined to stop the closure...

MAY HAS UNDERMINED BREXIT says ex-Brexit Under Secretary Steve Baker

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EX-BREXIT Under Secretary of State Steve Baker, who resigned along with Brexit Secretary David Davis, told The Sunday Telegraph that Prime Minister May had...

‘We are fighting for the survival of Brunel University’ say UCU strikers

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‘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...

‘DOCTORS WON’T TAKE IT ANYMORE’ – says BMA after 98% strike vote

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JUNIOR doctors in England have voted by an overwhelming 98% for strike action in their fight for pay restoration. Almost every junior doctor who cast...

Palestine coalition condemns false claims of riot & disorder

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TODAY’S guilty verdicts in the case of Palestine Solidarity Campaign director Ben Jamal and Stop The War Campaign vice chair Chris Nineham are extraordinary...
The PAME strike rally in Athens

Greek Tuc Scabs On General Strike Action

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THOUSANDS of Greek workers and students took part in rallies and demonstrations last Thursday in a one-day general strike called by several trade unions...

Vauxhall And Cammell Laird Walkouts

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EVERY member of the GMB and Unite unions walked out last Friday evening at the Vauxhall car plant in Ellesmere Port in...

‘WE ARE DETERMINED TO WIN’ – striking RMT workers tell News Line

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TRANSPORT union RMT members were on the picket line at Waterloo Station on Saturday morning as their strike carries on in defence of pay,...

6th form teachers strike today!

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TEACHERS are striking today and have announced further strike dates due to the government’s ‘failure to resolve a clear pay discrepancy’ between staff in...
Greek hospital workers marching in Athens – remain defiant in their opposition to EU austerity

Bankers ‘don’t trust’ Greece

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A EUROGROUP (eurozone’s finance ministers) marathon meeting on Greece ended on midnight Saturday without a decision as the French and German ministers fell out. The...
Police attack youth trying to march to Parliament to protest about the plan to raise tuition fees to £9,000 a year – Photo by Gareth Jukes

Police Mass Arrests!

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Tuesday’s student demonstration in London ended in a mass arrest of 144 people, being described by students and legal groups as an exercise in...

Sheffield lecturers are determined to beat the attack on their pay!

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THERE were picket lines outside every department at Sheffield University’s many buildings yesterday morning with striking lecturers and staff determined to fight until they...
French police kick a yellow vest demonstrator – the movement has inspired German workers to take to the streets

Hundreds of Germans don yellow vests!

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HUNDREDS of Germans have donned yellow vests to match protesters in France, demonstrating in the bastion of Germany’s car industry in Stuttgart against a...

RCN to hand 160,000-strong petition into Downing Street! – demanding 12.5% pay rise now

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THE ROYAL College of Nursing is taking the nurses pay claim campaign to the heart of government as its ballot opens on industrial action...
Left to right: Unite convenors LAURIE EVANS and GARY REA, GM UK Finance Director RICHARD MOLYNEUX with Lord MANDELSON and GM UK Chairman BILL PARFITT (far right)

GM CRISIS – Mandelson rules out Luton nationalisation

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BUSINESS Secretary Mandelson emerged from his meeting with union officials and the top General Motors management in Luton yesterday unable to guarantee the...
Well-supported picket at the National Gallery yesterday morning

Support growing for National Gallery strikers

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OVER 30 National Gallery strikers and their supporters were in a determined mood on Day 9 of their indefinite strike against privatisation and the...

GO NOW! Scottish Labour leader demands of Starmer

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SCOTTISH Labour leader Anas Sarwar demanded PM Keir Starmer stand down yesterday, saying: ‘The distraction needs to end, and the leadership in Downing Street...
Trade unionists and youth lobbied the TUC yesterday afternoon demanding ‘No pensions Sell-out!’

NO DEAL! – says PCS

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THE pcs civil servants union yesterday rejected the government’s pensions plan to force public servants to pay more and work longer for less in...

Putin Peace Plan

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PRESIDENT Poroshenko has retracted his earlier statement regarding a ‘permanent ceasefire’ in eastern Ukraine, which followed a phone call between the Russian and...

Aslef supports PCS strikers at British Museum

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‘YOU are the finest workers in the UK. You deserve fair pay, job security and not threats,’ PCS General Secretary Mark Serwotka told strikers...

RAIL STRIKE IS ON! – to defend safety

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Four days of national strike action against job cuts and in defence of safety were announced by the RMT and TSSA rail unions yesterday,...

Grenfell cladding companies ‘total neglect of safety’ – QC – ‘Flammable cladding must be...

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A BARRISTER for survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire told the public inquiry that a ‘total neglect of safety’ was at the heart of...