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THE DEEPLY unpopular Teaching Excellence Frame (Tef) work is failing students, hated by lecturers and not fit for purpose concludes a report released today...

NURSING staff are quitting their NHS pensions to make ends meet as the cost-of-living crisis bites. The number of staff opting out of the NHS...

DOCK workers at the UK’s largest container port yesterday began an eight-day strike, for the first time in 30 years. About 1,900 members of the...

THE UNITE leadership yesterday failed to get a ‘fire and rehire’ deal accepted by RATP bus workers. The vote at seven West London bus garages...

THE Elect Hassan Zulkifal WRP Ealing Southall campaign got great support on Southall Broadway yesterday. Heathrow Airport worker and GMB member Kutesh Sashikint said: ‘I...

‘MONDAY’S action will be immense and there will be more of the same if London Underground (LU) continues its attacks,’ leading RMT officer Carlos...

ARRESTS were made as over 100 people protested outside the Home Office in Marsham Street, Westminster in central London yesterday in support of the...

TRADE union leaders are meeting at the TUC in central London today to discuss their response to meetings held yesterday with Tory ministers where...

THE WELFARE Bill, slashing benefits from the disabled and mentally ill, was passed by 335 votes to 260 in the House of Commons yesterday...

THE CORONAVIRUS pandemic reinforces – not diminishes – the strong case for the NHS workforce to receive a ‘beyond substantial’ pay rise for 2021-22,...

‘IT WAS CAPITALISM that ensured we had vaccines in less than a year,’ Tory PM Johnson boasted in his closing speech at the Tory...

JOHN SHIPTON yesterday called for the TUC to take up the fight for the release of his son, Julian Assange, and prevent his extradition...

‘WITH more than 13,000 patients a day stuck in hospitals because the community and social care they need to be safely discharged is unavailable,...

AS OF TODAY, ten thousand people on the old benefits system will be forced onto Universal Credit (UC) in a ‘pilot study’ in Harrogate,...

‘THIS REPORT does not call for zero-hours contracts to be banned! Zero-hours workers are amongst the most exploited in this country, and the most...

AT PRIME Minister’s Questions (PMQs) in the House of Commons yesterday PM Sunak sought to divert questions away from the developing Tory PPE procurement...

PRESSURE mounted yesterday on Labour PM Sir Keir Starmer to quit now in the wake of his appointment of Peter Mandelson as US ambassador. After...

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...

MORE than 130 prominent writers, scholars, and activists, including Sally Rooney, Greta Thunberg, and Brian Eno, have written to the Court of Appeal in...

OVER 600 British Airways workers demonstrated outside Heathrow airport yesterday. 42,000 were sacked that day by BA management and will only be re-employed if they...

TORY Health Secretary Steve Barclay provocatively declared yesterday that there will be absolutely no pay increase for nurses or doctors above the 5% that...

‘RENATIONALISE the water industry,’ demanded GMB water workers from around the country, demonstrating outside the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) yesterday...

A BLACK schoolgirl was strip-searched by police after being wrongly suspected of carrying cannabis. The ‘traumatic’ search by Metropolitan Police officers took place without another...

SCORES of striking nurses spoke out angrily on the picket lines yesterday to condemn the Tory public sector pay cuts programme. Hundreds of thousands of...

AS THE murder trial of officer Derek Chauvin continued for the killing of George Floyd, anger erupted outside the Court House where masses of...

‘IF PRESIDENT Putin were to choose the path of bloodshed and destruction he must realise it would be both tragic and futile,’ Tory PM...

THE CWU (Communication Workers Union) is taking national strike action this Friday with 115,000 Royal Mail workers stopping work. Further action has been called for...

THE SOUTH African variant has begun to spread across the UK, the Tories confirmed yesterday. Tory Health Secretary Matt Hancock told the 5.00pm briefing: ‘We...

UCU lecturers at their emergency branch meeting yesterday demanded that the TUC organise a national demonstration and march to parliament on its 1st February ‘Day...

A TOWER block in Bradford with 160 flats has been evacuated over ‘serious fire safety deficiencies’. All the residents at Appleton Point were told to...

A HUGE rally of over 200,000 people marched from Russell Square to Trafalgar Square in London on Saturday 30th March, Palestinian Land Day, to...

WATER, energy, TV licence and Council Tax bills went through the roof yesterday, with Citizens Advice warning that the finances of millions of people...

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...

OVER one hundred RMT members, along with members of the PCS, UCU and Unite rallied outside Parliament yesterday to defend the right to strike. This...

NEW emergency powers were outlined yesterday by the Tories as they published the Emergency Coronavirus Bill. The sweeping new powers which will last as...

The TUC (Trades Union Congress) has called a summit at the Winter Gardens, Blackpool on Wednesday, June 15. ‘to bring together union leaders and...

LABOUR’S Foreign Secretary David Lammy has shrugged off as ‘bluster’ warnings by Russia that if Ukraine fires its British-provided long-range Storm Shadow missiles into...

TORY Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock outlined the new White Paper in Parliament yesterday pushing a complete reorganisation of the NHS, breaking...

‘P&O and their paymasters in Dubai are no longer capable of running a safe service and should be stripped of the licence to operate...

THE BMA (British Medical Asociation) has asked the government for more clarity on staffing of new Nightingale facilities. Commenting on the planned new Nightingale facilities...

‘IT HAS no moral right to sit on these green benches here. It is a dead Parliament! Parliament is not worth a candle. It...

STRIKE ballots will open at 143 universities across the UK from today in a long-running dispute over pay and conditions. The University and College Union...

THE Bank of England (BoE) launched a huge intervention in government bond markets yesterday, as the UK financial crisis spiralled out of control following...

BUS drivers from Bow bus garage walked out on strike from 5am yesterday over exhausting schedules, inadequate rest breaks, and systematic disregard for their...

HUNDREDS of barristers demonstrated outside courts in Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Leeds, London and Manchester yesterday, on the second day of their indefinite strike. Over 100...