94.5% yes for post strike – CWU leaders run away!
COMMUNICATION Workers Union (CWU) members in Royal Mail have beaten the anti-union laws for the third time in less than three years delivering a...
Tuc Leaders Dine With Pm Brown
Prime Minister Brown met 15 union leaders at his country residence Chequers for three hours yesterday afternoon, to discuss spending cuts ahead of next...
Russia took action to defend Donbass – says Russia’s ambassador to the UN Vasily...
RUSSIA’S ambassador to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzya, spoke at the emergency special session of the UN General Assembly in New York yesterday, defending...
Hunger strike to shut Yarl’s Wood
A HUNGER strike was launched by 43 women at Yarl’s Wood Detention centre in Bedford yesterday against indefinite detention, forced removal and appalling conditions....
Greek Vodafone strike ‘illegal’
AN Athens court declared ‘illegal’ the national strike called by Vodafone workers yesterday demanding a collective labour agreement. The Vodafone workers’ trade union refused to...
Over 250,000 workers and youth join the London Nakba march
OVER a quarter of a million workers, students and youth joined the Nakba 78 March from the museums in Kensington to Pall Mall in...
36,876 paid less than minimum wage in Scotland!
NEARLY 37,000 people in Scotland were paid less than the statutory minimum wage last year, while employers across the UK owe workers an average...
Royal Mail lands an anti-union blow at the High Court
ROYAL MAIL has won a legal battle against the CWU to prevent a postal strike over Xmas after the High Court backed its application...
Series of 48 hour postal strikes
POSTAL workers have announced a series of 48-hour strikes to fall on Black Friday and after Tech Monday, as workers will also hold a...
WHITEWASH! – families denied access to press conference
Yesterday Geoff Gray refused to accept the conclusion of the ‘independent review’ into four deaths at Deepcut barracks, that his son committed suicide. Gray, whose...
‘WE WERE ATTACKED BY SEVERAL HUNDRED POLICE’ say Tamil protesters
ONE THOUSAND Tamil protesters congregated in Westminster Square yesterday afternoon, in defiance of Monday night’s violent Metropolitan Police attack on them in which at...
Personal budgets cutting care!
The personal budgets being introduced for social care are being used to implement the government’s spending cuts, charities warned yesterday. On November 16, Care Services...
EUROZONE CRISIS – Economy to shrink in 2013
THE European Commission (EC) yesterday admitted that the eurozone economy would contract in 2013, saying it will shrink by 0.3%. The EC warned that Spain,...
GENERAL HOSPITALS MAY HAVE TO CLOSE says NHS Chief Executive Sir Ian Carruthers
Health service union UNISON yesterday condemned the suggestion by the acting NHS chief executive that whole district general hospitals will face closure. Warning of...
MIDWIFERY CRISIS! – ‘Reverse diploma cut decision’ – RCM urges
The Royal College of Nursing yesterday accused the government of exacerbating an already serious midwifery crisis. Student midwives’ leaders expressed alarm over the government’s decision...
Cut Fuel Duty Now! Demand Hauliers
HAULIERS hit by record fuel prices and taxes converged on Westminster in their lorries on Tuesday, to demand an immediate rebate to save them...
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! Thousands of Unison members voting for strike action
UNISON has held a series of meetings across the North West in their campaign to defend NHS workers’ pensions. Thousands of NHS employees have...
Labour Rescues Cameron Government
PM Cameron was rescued by Labour from a humiliating defeat in the House of Commons on Europe on Tuesday night after he faced his...
Unison Rejects Virgin Private Health Centres!
Public sector union UNISON yesterday told News Line it is opposed to a bid by Richard Branson’s Virgin Group to build and administer NHS...
‘MORE COPS WON’T SOLVE ANYTHING’ – say defiant French youths
‘More repression means more destruction’, said defiant French youths yesterday, in answer to the state-of emergency announced by Interior Minister Nicholas Sarkozy. They said curfews...
Powell Suffers Multiple Memory Failure!
WHEN Tony Blair’s chief of staff from 1997-2007, Jonathan Powell, was questioned yesterday about the September 2002 dossier that took the UK to war...
‘WE WILL FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTS’ says Gate Gourmet Branch Secretary
‘THE union solicitor is filing our cases for employment tribunals. The cases must be filed before 90 days, we’ve waited for the company to...
SACKED! – one hour’s notice at BMW Oxford while Unite trade union just looks...
Agency workers at BMW’s Mini plant in Oxford erupted in fury yesterday after 850 of them, a third of the Cowley plant workforce, were...
Destruction of Gaza Cultural Centre condemned by leading playwrights!
IN A LETTER to the British press, fourteen leading UK playwrights and theatre directors, have condemned the destruction of the Said al-Mishal Cultural Centre...
Ahli Hospital Massacre – Israel bears the direct responsibility!
‘THE Israeli occupation bears direct responsibility for the Baptist Hospital massacre and that its flagrant lies will not fool anyone,’ declared Hamas yesterday. Hamas said:...
‘Free Sudanese journalist Sadiq Rizaigi now!’ – NUJ
‘SUDANESE generals must free journalist Sadiq Rizaigi now!’ the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) in the UK and Ireland demanded yesterday joining calls from...
UCU holds strike rally as 17 FE colleges stop work
The University and College Union (UCU) held a strike rally of over 150 members from across the country at the Emmanuel Centre on Marsham...
Stoke-On-Trent NHS Beds Crisis
University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust is urging people to avoid using the Accident and Emergency department at weekends because of the pressure...
Shocking Tuc Betrayal Condemned
THE RMT has reacted furiously to the TUC/Southern Rail betrayal of safety and the conductor grade. General Secretary Mick Cash said: ‘This so-called agreement is...
Pensions Strikes
AHEAD of today’s TUC Congress, the leaders of two of the country’s biggest unions warned that their members’ anger over cuts in their jobs,...
NHS Crisis – Drastic Cuts Planned
DRASTIC cuts to the NHS are being planned to meet a budget cut of £15-20 billion, with even bigger spending cuts expected in the...
Tory Split Deepens!
THE Tory government risks dividing society, Iain Duncan Smith warned yesterday in his first interview since resigning as Work and Pensions Secretary. He attacked the...
School Strike Solidarity
ELEVEN school dinner ladies and men from Haggerston school in Hackney, east London, went on strike yesterday against poverty pay. They were joined by over...
IFS points to huge inflation
ANALYSIS by the Institute of Fiscal Studies shows that ‘real median household income in 2013–14 is more than 6% lower than before the economic...
Ealing strikers demand indefinite action
EALING Parking Services workers were on the picket line outside Ealing Town Hall yesterday on the third day of three days of strike action...
Bank Keeps Rate At 5.5%
The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee yesterday voted to keep the official Bank Rate on hold at 5.5 per cent. The Bank had been...
Tories Ignore RCN Offer To Talk!
TORY Foreign Secretary James Cleverley yesterday rejected talks with the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), whose members are coming out on strike this Thursday...
60 media and rights organisations urge the EU to impose sanctions on Israel for...
SOME 60 media and rights organisations yesterday urged the European Union to suspend a cooperation accord with Israel and impose sanctions, accusing it of ‘massacring journalists’...
Solidarity demonstration for the Filton 25
THERE was a crowd of over 50 people outside Woolwich Crown court demonstrating in solidarity with the Filton 25 yesterday. The court is considering in...
GM mass meeting demand
WORKERS are resuming work at GM Luton today none the wiser as to what Business Secretary Mandelson told their shop stewards when...
Gmb Shop Stewards Decide On Strike Action Ballot At Asda
The GMB trade union shop stewards at a meeting yesterday in Manchester voted unanimously to ballot for a national strike in Asda Wal-Mart. The GMB...
‘TORTURE IS ABHORRENT’ say the Law Lords
‘This is a momentous decision,’ said Amnesty International yesterday. ‘The Law Lords ruling has overturned the tacit belief that torture can be condoned under...
RIOT POLICE ATTACK WORKERS – as Obama arrives in Athens
HUNDREDS of armed riot police (MAT) in full gear viciously attacked a militant march in Athens against the visit of US President Barack Obama...
Corbyn is to demand vote on Syrian intervention!
PRIME Minister May will go before the House of Commons today to try to explain why she ordered British cruise missile attacks on Syria...
Corbyn ‘sorry’ for big losses
BOTH Labour and Tory parties have faced rejection at the ballot box in the English council elections over their Brexit betrayal, with smaller parties...