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‘MANY in the fire service and the fire safety sector have been raising issues about regulation, issues like cladding, for many years and we...

The two largest teacher unions, the NUT and NASUWT, representing nine out of 10 teachers in England and Wales, are to stage a series...

UK DEFENCE Secretary Michael Fallon yesterday called for withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph he...

UNEMPLOYMENT rose by 114,000 between June and August to 2.57 million, a 17-year high, according to official figures. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said...

THE UNITE trade union has responded to the news that Rolls Royce is to cut 9,000 jobs globally, 3,375 of them in the UK,...

‘SOCIAL housing is our right!’ chanted over three thousand protestors on the March to Defend Council Housing on Saturday. The march began at Shoreditch Church...

A REPORT on ‘behaviour management and restraint of children in custody’ reveals that ‘pain-inducing techniques’ are in frequent use in young offender...

DELEGATES at the TUC Congress 2012 in Brighton yesterday voted unanimously for composite Motion 1, which calls on the TUC to give its full...

PATIENTS are bearing the brunt of savage cuts to GP surgeries, said the Royal College of GPs yesterday. The RCGP said: ‘GPs are facing a...

THE NUT and NASUWT teachers unions voted overwhelmingly for strike action at their annual conferences over the weekend. Speaking after the Priority Motion on Pensions...

The Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) yesterday condemned the coalition government’s decision to use ‘bounty hunters’ to tackle alleged benefit fraud. The charity was commenting...

BROADCASTING unions at ITV have voted to go on strike next Thursday after management failed to budge from an ‘insulting’ pay offer of 2...

‘We will use all the means at our disposal to fight,’ PCS civil service union General Secretary Mark Serwotka declared yesterday. He accused the government...

REFUGEES stood their ground yesterday in Hungary, defied the police and refused to go to a ‘refugee camp’. They said that they had purchased rail...

The University and College Union (UCU) has slammed Manchester College after it was revealed that it is paying its top earner almost £200,000, while...

worried parents are fearful that a flu epidemic is set to explode from today, when ten million children return to school after the Christmas...

UNISON yesterday called on the government to build more council houses as First Direct became the first major bank to stop lending to house...

GRANTS were abolished yesterday leaving hundreds of thousands of poorer students with a stark choice: either spend the rest of your life in debt,...

SPEAKING at a press conference on the ‘first hundred days’ of a Labour government, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, John McDonnell, pledged: ‘So let...

RUTHLESS cuts on London Underground made by former mayor Boris Johnson ‘seriously threaten the safety of Londoners’, the RMT said on the eve of...

WAGES in the UK have seen one of the largest falls in the European Union since the coalition came to power, according to official...

FIERCE fighting continued on the outskirts of Sirte yesterday, with Gadaffi loyalists dealing deadly blows against the counter-revolutionary ‘NTC’ mercenaries, while NATO warplanes pounded...

THE Hampstead-based Royal Free Hospital NHS trust, which will take over Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield and Barnet Hospital this July, has confirmed its...

TENS of thousands of rail workers in dozens of infrastructure and operating companies are to be balloted for strike action. This is after employers...

UP to a dozen travel safe officers yesterday lobbied a board meeting of Transport for London (TFL) at 197, Blackfriars Road, London. They told News...

ONE-THIRD of the UK population struggles to pay for food, with almost a quarter saying that growing food prices remain one of the main...

THE Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has demanded London mayor, Boris Johnson, abandon plans to shut 12 fire stations. The demand was made after firefighters...

one in five mortgage holders is worried about meeting their repayments over the next 12 months, while a quarter of these haven’t any idea...

SEVEN right wing Labour shadow cabinet members quit yesterday, with more resignations expected, as a coup attempt got underway to remove Jeremy Corbyn as...

THE Bank of England has warned that the biggest banks and building societies operating in Britain face a £120bn shortfall in their finances. In a...

PICKET lines at Heathrow Airport were all manned successfully yesterday and there was a carnival atmosphere at the Bedfont Football Club, as a battle...

THE CLADDING samples from each and every one of the 34 tower blocks in 17 council areas in England tested up until yesterday have...

OVER 50 people joined a picket of the Department of Health yesterday, demanding that the government honour a pledge from Tory Health Secretary Lansley...

IRAN has suspended its commitments under the 2015 international nuclear deal, a year after it was ripped up by President Trump. President Hassan Rouhani said...

HAMAS yesterday urged the United Nations to reconsider its suspension of food aid for Palestinian refugees, imposed after protesters stormed a UN depot in...

Nurses at the RCN Annual Conference in Harrogate yesterday heckled and poured scorn on claims by Health Secretary Lansley that clinical staffing levels in...

GPs at their annual conference in Liverpool yesterday voted in favour of a motion calling for the end of the work capability assessment. The doctors,...

‘HEALTH unions must now do what their members want and organise industrial action to defeat this bill,’ leading BMA member Anna Athow demanded yesterday. She...

THE NUS has described a drop in the numbers of students going to university as ‘deeply worrying’, and has called on the Government to...

POST Office staff in the country’s network of 373 Crown Post Offices are taking a third round of strike action today in a dispute...

UNISON, the UK’s largest public sector union, yesterday raised concerns over the consequences of introducing individual budgets outlined in yesterday’s ‘Primary and Community Care’...

THERE was a lively mass picket at SOAS University, Central London, yesterday at the start of a two-day strike by cleaners. SOAS Unison Assistant Branch...

‘WE DON’T accept privatisation,’ RMT rail union leader Bob Crow said yesterday, on the eve of today’s strike by over 2,300 RMT members employed...

Youth are marching from Manchester to London to demand 'Jobs for youth' and 'Free State education'. The March started in Manchester on Saturday 30...

CAMPAIGNING on the big Golf Links council estate, five minutes walk from Ealing Hospital, the Arj Thiara Workers Revolutionary Party for Ealing Southall canvas...