NHS Bosses Using Election To Gag Staff – Gmb
NHS bosses are trying to ‘gag’ staff during the general election, GMB Union revealed yesterday, warning that health service workers are being told they...
NHS workers immigration status victory – Home Office forced to U-turn yesterday morning!
THE TORIES, under fire from all sides have had to make a U-turn on their policy over the immigration status of NHS workers. Until yesterday...
1,000 WORKERS MARCH ON ORGREAVE ANNIVERSARY – Corbyn pledges Labour government inquiry!
UP TO A thousand workers from both Yorkshire and across the country marched to the 35th Battle of Orgreave memorial rally on Saturday. They marched...
‘Conspiracy to rape’ – Victims of spy cops indict the state
WOMEN who found out their partners were undercover police spies insisted yesterday that they are the ‘victims of a conspiracy to rape’ by the...
Hunt turns his fire on the sick the disabled and the mentally ill –...
TORY Chancellor Hunt turned his fire on the sick, the disabled, the mentally ill and the unemployed in his vicious, vindictive anti-working class Autumn...
Chancellor Reeves in a crisis as pound plummits to 14-month low
CHANCELLOR Rachel Reeves has come under intense scrutiny after a turbulent period in the financial markets sent the pound plummeting to a 14-month low...
State witch-hunt on labour
THE witchhunt against the Labour Party and its leader Corbyn is being stepped up with the news that The Equalities and Human Rights Commission...
No Action Against The Police Over The Chris Kaba Killing
THE Independent Office for Police Conduct announced yesterday that it has dropped gross misconduct proceedings against Martyn Blake, the Metropolitan Police firearms officer who...
Manchester indefinite bus strike!
MANCHESTER Go North West strikers were out yesterday mass picketing the depot as part of their indefinite strike. Go North West Unite branch secretary Pat...
Plan to ‘Fire and Rehire’ 100 teachers at Richmond College
STAFF are set to strike over a plan to ‘Fire & Rehire’ over 100 teachers at Richmond upon Thames College Staff at Richmond upon Thames...
The TUC must call a general strike! say Barts Hospital strikers
STRIKING Royal London Hospital ancillary workers rallying outside Barts Hospital in their fight for pay and improved conditions yesterday demanded that the TUC Special...
General Strike For Palestine!
YESTERDAY, on Al- Quds Day, thousands of people took to the streets of London in a powerful march orchestrated by the Justice for Palestine...
COVID-19 STAFF DEATHS – HSE Executive is urged to investigate
THE Health and Safety Executive is being urged to investigate hospitals and care homes over the widespread Covid-19 infections among staff, which led to...
Rising prices ‘are a price worth paying’ says Johnson
WHILST pledging a further half-a-billion pounds cash for the Ukrainian army yesterday, Tory PM Boris Johnson said that rising prices at home are ‘a...
Strike Action Sweeping Heathrow
HUNDREDS of Border Force workers at Heathrow Airport began four days of strike action yesterday against Tory attacks on their working conditions. The more than...
Trump Puppets Johnson & Farage Fall Out!
THE TORY government has defended its proposed Brexit deal with the EU, following criticism from President Trump, who suggested a Johnson-Farage alliance. Trump told LBC...
TORY REFUSAL TO TALK ON PAY ‘BEYOND BELIEF’ says BMA
TORY Health Secretary Steve Barclay’s refusal to join today’s meeting between doctors’ leaders and the Department of Health is ‘beyond belief when the stakes...
UK’s crisis has only just begun Sunak tells parliament!
CHANCELLOR SUNAK lifted a little of the lid off of the crisis of British capitalism yesterday when he told the House of Commons, in...
Truss Condemns Militant Trade Unions & Nationalisation!
PRIME MINISTER Truss declared war on ‘militant trade unions and nationalised industries’ in her speech at the Tory Party Conference in Birmingham yesterday morning. Her...
Barts strikers fighting for the NHS
WORKERS at the Barts group of hospitals in east London, began a 12 day strike yesterday, running until 17 November, fighting for safe staffing,...
Nationalise Jaguar Land Rover – to save workers’ rights and jobs
THERE HAS been confirmation that Jaguar Land Rover will build a new all-electric model at its Castle Bromwich plant. Unite said yesterday that the announcement...
Record 5.45m NHS waiting list – Nurses warn of staffing crisis
A RECORD number of people, more than 5.45 million, are waiting for NHS hospital treatment in England. Responding to the latest NHS England performance data,...
B of E raises its Bank Rate to 4%
THE Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) at its meeting ending on 1 February 2023, voted by a majority of 7-2 to increase...
Anti-deportation fighters block removals – are backed by TUC
MOST of the people due to be put aboard a controversial deportation flight to Jamaica yesterday have been removed from the flight list! This was...
College strikes
‘WE ARE taking action as part of national co-ordinated action for a pay rise of at least 5%,' Julia Roberts, Lambeth University and College...
Birmingham bin men mark one year with mass protest
A LIVELY picket of 200 bin men, came out in support of the bin strikers in Birmingham yesterday morning, marking one year of the...
Massive ASLEF vote for strike action over pay!
ASLEF train drivers’ trade union members have voted overwhelmingly for more strike action, having not had a pay rise for five years. Mick Whelan, general...
NHS IS BUCKLING BEFORE OUR EYES says RCN leader Patricia Marquis
‘AS WE begin a new year, the NHS is buckling before our eyes. The pressures are immense with flu cases surging while staff absences...
Parents & children lobby Downing St
OVER 500 parents and children held an angry protest outside Downing Street demanding an increase in funding for children with special educational needs and...
‘The sole intention is to destroy the jobs of postal workers’ says Dave Ward
CWU members braved the continuous pouring rain yesterday morning at the Greenwich, Blackheath and Charlton delivery office London SE10. CWU General Secretary Dave Ward told...
Johnson puts Navy in charge of repelling refugee dinghies
THE MILITARY will take charge of the operations targeting refugees and asylum seekers crossing the English Channel in inflatable boats within weeks, the government...
BMA condemns & rejects Primary Care specifications!
THE BMA’s England GP committee has voted not to accept a contract agreement with NHS England and condemned the recently-published draft service specifications outlining...
Trump drug deal set to cost £45bn and 229,000 lives
THE NHS will have to divert almost 45 billion pounds from frontline services to pay for costlier medicines under the UK-US trade deal struck...
‘Hostile environment’ alive and kicking!
LAST week the National Audit Office launched an investigation into the Home Office’s decision in 2014, when Theresa May was Home Secretary, to accuse...
Teachers Will March On Tory Party Conference!
TEACHERS will march on the Tory Party Conference in Manchester in early October, with all teaching unions on strike together at the time, to...
Supreme Court rejects Julian Assange extradition appeal!
THE UK Supreme Court yesterday rejected WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s appeal of the decision to extradite him to the US, where the WikiLeaks co-founder...
JLR seeks £2bn government loan!
JAGUAR Land Rover (JLR) has been in talks with the government for weeks to secure a loan of £2bn, to prevent mass sackings following...
Labour planning speeding up eviction of asylum seekers
LABOUR Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is planning an overhaul of the asylum appeals system as it tries to cut the number of asylum seekers...
Labour to launch war on disabled
THE LABOUR government will declare war on the disabled when Chancellor Reeves returns from China this week it was reported yesterday, as the media...
Half a million on London march for Palestine!
HALF A MILLION workers, students and youth marched for Palestine through London on Saturday, assembling in Hyde Park and marching to the American Embassy...
Teachers Need Fully Funded Above Inflation Pay Rises!
UNIONS representing teachers and school leaders in England are united in calling on the School Teachers’ Review Body to make urgent recommendations on pay,...
BIGGEST DAY OF STRIKE ACTION FOR DECADES! – over 500,000 workers strike
MORE than half a million workers are striking today in Britain’s biggest day of strike action for decades. Hundreds of thousands of members of eight...
HANDS OFF OUR PENSIONS! – 37 Universities to strike!
STAFF at 37 universities are to strike over an ‘unprecedented attack on their pensions’, it was announced by their union University College Union (UCU)...
‘WE WILL NOT BACK DOWN!’ says Consultants Chair Vishal Sharma
THE government made the final offer and said “no more talks”. We are united, stronger together. We cannot and will not back down,’ Consultants...
More than 300,000 workers, students and youth march on Downing St to support Palestine...
MORE than 300,000 workers, students and youth marched on Downing Street to mark the anniversary of the start Israel’s Gaza genocide on Saturday. At least...