43% of doctors have absolutely no eye protection! – Nurses have no face masks!
NURSES are forced to ‘hold their breath’ because of inadequate face masks during dangerous operations, while doctors have absolutely no eye protection, it was...
OCCUPY GM! – defend every job says ATUA Secretary Wiltshire
German workers are holding ‘warning strikes’ today over General Motors scrapping the sale of GM Europe, which includes Opel and Vauxhall, to Magna. The GM...
‘Next three months absolutely critical for NHS’ – Blair
‘Whether it’s redundancies or posts not being filled, thousands of jobs are still being lost in the NHS,’ a British Medical Association spokesman...
Cameron threatens savage cuts!
PRIME Minister Cameron and Chancellor Osborne have threatened more savage cuts in spending on pensions, the NHS and defence if the UK votes to...
Food & Fuel Prices Soaring!
HUGE petrol and food price increases have pushed up the UK cost of living, cutting workers’ wages and living standards. The Office of National Statistics...
Labour tinkers with capitalism – won’t break with EU & won’t scrap Universal Credit
LABOUR’S leaked General Election Manifesto starts with a declaration that ‘Labour understands that wealth creation is a collective endeavour – between investors, workers, public...
South Western guards strike is rock solid!
THE SOUTH Western Railway workers’ strike was rock solid yesterday morning in their escalating battle to keep the guards on the train. They are...
Osborne bashes pensions & youth
TORY Chancellor Osborne, in his Autumn Statement delivered to parliament yesterday, launched war on the unemployed, students, youth and the state pension. Rather than announcing...
FREE, FREE PALESTINE! chant protesters at High Court
‘FREE, Free Palestine’ chanted over 1,000 protesters waving Palestine flags outside the High Court yesterday. The court was holding an emergency hearing seeking a judicial...
BEIS indefinite strike!
OVER 20 PCS catering workers at the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), working for contractor Aramark, walked out on indefinite strike...
OCCUPY CHASE FARM! –defend A&E & Maternity departments
‘We are prepared to occupy before any closures are implemented,’ said North East London Council of Action Secretary Bill Rogers yesterday. Commenting on news that...
Unions recommend Tata deal – despite pension cuts and no job guarantees
UNITE, Community and GMB trade unions yesterday called on Tata steel workers at Port Talbot to vote ‘YES’ when the...
Academy bosses salaries – ‘verging on criminality!’ – while poorly paid teachers are being...
THE NEW NASUWT president is to tell this weekend’s annual conference that trust bosses’ salaries are ‘verging on criminality’. The NASUWT will call for a...
Cuts force refugee centre to close
A VITAL Refugee Centre in Sheffield is facing immediate closure, right at the time it is needed the most. Tory cuts have ravaged the ...
14 US soldiers killed in Iraq – as US General says British army must...
Fourteen American soldiers were killed in northern Iraq yesterday when their Blackhawk transport helicopter came down during a pre-dawn flight, US command said in...
Miliband talks productivity to the bosses – wants partnership with business and bankers
LABOUR leader Ed Miliband, put on his Tory hat yesterday when he launched his party’s Business Manifesto, at business news agency Bloomberg and...
Capital City lecturers strike
STRIKING Capital City College Group (CCCG) lecturers rallied outside the CEO’s office in Victoria yesterday on the second day of their eight-day strike. The strikers...
Hamas-US in direct talks!
THE White House has confirmed that the United States has engaged in direct negotiations with Hamas regarding American captives held in Gaza, despite Washington’s...
Workhouse Master Duncan Smith Attacks Poor
PCS civil servants union general secretary Mark Serwotka yesterday slammed Work and Pensions secretary Duncan Smith’s speech attacking youth, families and the unemployed. Serwotka said:...
CHILDREN GOING TO SCHOOL HUNGRY
‘THIS report rightly blames the government’s austerity agenda, including cuts to support services and children’s centres, for limiting the educational potential of disadvantaged young...
NHS ‘CAN’T DELIVER WHAT IS REQUIRED!’ says Hopson
‘WE FACE the greatest challenge in a generation,’ NHS Providers chief executive Chris Hopson told its annual conference in Birmingham yesterday. The just launched The...
‘WE WILL WIN’ – insist striking CWU members
‘We’re fighting for our jobs, terms and conditions, pensions, the future of the union and the future of the business,’ Communication Workers Union (CWU)...
British Gas Staff Reject Boss’s Obscene Rise
THE Unite and GMB trade unions have called on Ford to come clean over the future of its UK operations. They are warning that its...
Lambeth College strike action!
LAMBETH College UCU strikers held a lively picket and rally yesterday, on the last strike day of 2014 and stressed their determination to...
‘GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER’ – Private security firms in Iraq condemned
War on Want has condemned the UK private military and security companies (PMSCs), ‘operating with impunity in Iraq’. The charity issued a briefing paper...
CHARGE POLICE – demand the Menezes family
‘It could not have been more wrong what has been done to Jean,’ said a cousin of the young Brazilian man Jean Charles de...
Met chief Dick warns 43,000 officers over rot throughout force
THE MET POLICE Commissioner Cressida Dick in light of scandal after scandal engulfing the police force has sent a letter to all 43,000 officers...
115 Gaza deaths due to man-made famine
THE Government Media Office (GMO) in Gaza run by Hamas, yesterday said that the famine is worsening in the Gaza Strip, warning against false...
Hold The Police To Account Demands de Menezes Family
THERE will always be doubts in the minds of Jean Charles de Menezes’ relatives about why there is no CCTV evidence of when armed...
Gm Hits Luton With 354 Job Losses
General Motors (GM) yesterday announced 354 job cuts at Vauxhall’s UK plant in Luton and none in Ellesmere Port. On Wednesday, Chief Executive Officer (CEO)...
STEPHEN LAWRENCE – policeman and staff member arrested
A retired police constable and a police staff member have been arrested on suspicion of perverting the course of justice after claims that evidence...
Blair Whitewash –
‘The way things are going they are going to wrap everything up – they are covering up everything,’ the cousin of murdered Brazilian Jean...
‘CHILLING AND UNBELIEVABLE’– News International tailed entire Culture Committee – allegation
all members of the House of Commons Culture Committee were tailed by journalists or private investigators employed by the News of the World, it...
Hackney School Cleaners Holiday Rates Victory
HACKNEY school cleaners have hailed victory in a dispute over the failure to pay proper holiday rates. The settlement of the dispute at the six...
‘Resist forced Academy status’
‘The NUT will support all those school communities – heads, teachers, parents and governors – who resist forced Academy status’, pledged NUT General Secretary...
£1,000 A Year Energy Bills!
Consumer and pensioners organisations yesterday slammed massive inflation-busting gas and electricity price rises announced by energy giant Powergen. Watchdog Energywatch warned that consumers face...
1-metre rule abandoned when schools re-open! – parents to be fined if they keep...
THE ONE-METRE distancing rule is to be abandoned in schools when they open in September, the Tory government announced yesterday to the alarm of...
Huddersfield University UCU fighting large scale sackings
THE University and College Union (UCU) yesterday slammed the University of Huddersfield for large-scale redundancy proposals that could see staff lose their jobs by...
Strike-Breaking Regulations Ruled Illegal By High Court
MICK Whelan, general secretary of ASLEF, the train drivers’ union has spoken out after the Tory government suffered a major defeat in the High...
NO POWER FOR 9 DAYS! – ‘totally unacceptable’ says Kwarteng
IT IS ‘totally unacceptable’, that over 4,000 households in North East England remain without power more than nine days after Storm Arwen tore down...
Doctors taking on coalition!
A group of 240 doctors are to stand ‘as many candidates as possible’ against coalition MPs in the next general election. They want to show...
Palestine welcomes the call for an immediate ceasefire!
THE Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates yesterday welcomed the initiative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, in calling for...
‘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...
Musa Ibrahim Reports From Libyan War Fronts
MUSA Ibrahim, spokesman for Colonel Gadaffi, gave an interview to the Syria-based Al-Ra’y TV on the evening of September 18. He said: ‘We...
KPMG paid £10m to recommend NHS closures
LABOUR has demanded the publication of reports costing £10 million, paid by the NHS to management consultants KPMG, which recommended closing hospitals and axing...













