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‘DESPITE Tory claims that the cost-of-living crisis is coming to an end, the truth is that inflation (RPI) is still outstripping wage growth,’ Unite...

A COURT RULING that the UK government’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is unlawful has been welcomed by the charity that challenged...

VENEZUELA’S self-declared interim leader Juan Guaidó has set up a confrontation over US aid by calling for Venezuelans to cross borders and bring it...

THE NHS is preparing to implement sweeping cuts to essential healthcare services, with thousands of frontline jobs at risk, and critical treatment pathways facing...

THE RCGP (Royal College of General Practitioners) has written to Home Secretary Priti Patel demanding that the government must act ‘urgently’ to prevent newly-qualified...

ROYAL MAIL Communication Workers Union (CWU) postal workers were in a determined mood during their latest pay strike yesterday. At Jubilee Mail Centre in Hounslow,...

THERE was a lively picket of PCS union members outside the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology office in Whitehall yesterday morning, on their...

Over 20,000 staff at scores of universities are striking for five consecutive days this week in their fight for pay and working conditions and...

TORY Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab’s latest attack on China – suspending the UKs extradition treaty with the country, was supported by all Parties, turning...

RESPONDING to yesterday’s recommendation from the Review Body on Doctors’ and Dentists’ Remuneration (DDRB) and the government’s acceptance of that recommendation, the BMA says...

Thousands of cancer patients have not received the care they need and their conditions have worsened owing to the focus on Covid-19, the British...

AT least a dozen doctors are to take legal action against the government because they believe they were forced to join a pension scheme...

THE MYANMAR military authorities have seized control of the embassy, leaving the ambassador out in the street and forcing him to sleep in his...

BALPA (British Airline Pilots Association) yesterday gave notice to British Airways that it calls on its members to strike on 9th, 10th and 27th...

WITH MILLIONS of new Universal Credit claimants expected when the Tory ‘job retention’, or ‘furlough’, scheme ends over the next three months, the government...

NHS England (NHSE) is pressing ahead with setting up a new emergency care system, under the guise of reducing crowding in A&E departments. Patients will...

THREE Cumbria fire stations risk closure as the entire service is under threat of being taken over by the Police and Crime Commissioner, the...

A HUGE increase in nursing staff quitting the profession early will make government NHS ‘reforms’ impossible to deliver, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN)...

BRITAIN will face further tax increases within months after Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s Spring Statement left the economy precariously balanced, according to the Office for...

TEACHERS in the NEU (National Education Union) are taking mass strike action this week in their fight for a national 12% pay rise for...

STRIKING Ealing civil enforcement officers are protesting outside parliament today against union-busting by the West London Labour Council, furious at the ‘disgraceful’ lack of...

‘CAN I put on record my thanks to the Trades Union Congress (TUC), the CBI, and other business groups,’ Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak said...

NINE thousand Thomas Cook workers lost their jobs yesterday with a further 20,000 threatened across Europe as the company, founded in 1841, went bust....

UNDER plans unveiled by the government, NHS care in England will be significantly shifted out of hospitals and into newly proposed ‘neighbourhood health centres’. Prime...

UNITE has called for urgent reforms into how the deaths of workers and members of the public killed and injured in road accidents...

RYANAIR is planning to make 3,000, 15% of its workers in Europe, redundant and is also planning 20% pay cuts for employees. Unite national officer...

SCUNTHORPE scaffolders have stepped up strike action at a British Steel site. The British Steel plant in Scunthorpe faces further disruption this month as scaffolders...

‘WE MUST take additional steps to strengthen our borders,’ said Tory PM Johnson in Parliament yesterday, outlining the new Hotel Quarantine system. The system means...

‘OUR STRUGGLE is getting stronger, not weaker. There is a deep determination amongst the membership. The more mischief from management, the more they try...

MEMBERS of the University and College Union (UCU) at Nottingham College began balloting for industrial action yesterday as part of a row over new...

BORIS Johnson has insisted he will stay in office, despite a growing Tory revolt against his leadership. At Prime Minister’s Questions, he said he had...

JOE BRACK from the Julian Assange Defence Committee spoke to News Line yesterday after the Westminster Magistrates Court gave Home Secretary Patel the go-ahead...

ANOTHER round of council cuts is set to devastate services for young people in London, with more than £1 million of cuts planned for...

‘UNITE must call national strike action now to stop the jobs bloodbath at Heathrow Airport,’ British Airways ground staff worker Jamil Singh told News...

LARGE numbers of TUC delegates in Brighton yesterday stopped at the 60-strong WRP and Young Socialists lobby to say that they want the TUC...

‘COBRA emergency meetings were held this morning and throughout the weekend. We must now take appropriate action to support the safe passage of vessels...

THE THREAT to cut health visitor and community nurse jobs in County Durham, while Covid-19 is still widespread, was branded as ‘incomprehensible’ by the...

TORY PM Johnson must wait until there are fewer than 1,000 Covid infections a day before lifting lockdown, NHS bosses and scientists have warned. The...

JAM-PACKED ASOS clothing warehouse is a ‘cradle of disease’, terrified workers in the GMB union warned yesterday, calling for their entire operation to be...

YESTERDAY’S 8.00am Unite mass protest at the Port of Felixstowe to end bullying management culture and to defend union reps was postponed at the...

UNITE has called ‘targeted’ strike action at Heathrow Airport Limited (HAL) from Friday 2nd April to Sunday 25th April, with 41 strikes over the...

HUNDREDS of farmers descended on Parliament on their tractors yesterday, demanding ‘Save Family Farming!’ Having driven to the capital from as far afield as Exmoor,...

IN THE WAKE of the Grenfell Tower fire, you would assume that fire safety checks would have increased. However, over the last seven years,...

A LABOUR government would continue with the reactionary Tory policy of incarcerating refugees aboard barges moored offshore, according to shadow immigration minister Stephen Kinnock...

HEATHROW Airport workers signed up to support the campaign to elect Hassan Zulkifal, WRP Ealing Southall general election candidate, yesterday. Unite member Ram Sheemar said:...