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CARGO workers at British Airways have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action in the bitter dispute over the company’s plans to fire and...

HOME Secretary Braverman issued a vicious onslaught against refugees yesterday, seeking to establish her ultra-right wing credentials ahead of the Tory Party Conference in...

WORKERS at the historic Rolls-Royce plant in Barnoldswick have voted 94% ‘YES’ for strike action in opposition to plans to move the site to...

COVID restrictions must immediately be reintroduced if England is to avoid ‘stumbling into a winter crisis,’ health leaders have warned. The NHS Confederation said a...

A DEFIANT meeting of Alpha catering workers was held yesterday midday at Cranford Park, Heathrow. The workers unanimously dismissed Alpha Catering’s plan to cut the...

THE PCS (Public and Commercial Services) union has served notice on the Home Office of its intention to ballot members at Heathrow Airport for...

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

FOUR Palestine Action activists face sentencing today in what would mark the first time protesters have been sentenced as terrorists in British legal history,...

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...

THE TORIES ‘must bring British Steel into public ownership’, Unite said after the devastating announcement that the industry fell into liquidation yesterday morning. Unite assistant...

‘WE HAVE delivered more powers to the police, including stop and search,’ Tory Home Secretary Priti Patel told the Tory conference in Manchester yesterday. This...

ON THE EVE of budget day, National Education Union members working in 34 sixth form colleges walked out demanding more funding as colleges have...

‘IT IS in no-one’s interests for members of the armed forces to be given a free pass over alleged war crimes’ said Kate Allen,...

SUPPORT for the bus workers, who were out on strike in large numbers yesterday to force private bus owners Arriva to increase their miserly...

THE GMB union scored an ‘historic’ win on Friday when the Supreme Court passed judgement in the union’s landmark workers’ rights case against Uber. This...

MILLIONS of workers will see their take-home pay fall when contribution rates for those with auto-enrolment pensions are hiked in six weeks time. Since 2012,...

THE co-founder of Palestine Action, Huda Ammori, will begin a legal challenge against proscription of the group as a ‘terrorist’ organisation before London’s High...

PRIME Minister Starmer delivered a speech in a Surrey hospital yesterday morning describing his proposed transformation of the NHS into a largely digital service,...

‘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...

UNITE leader Sharon Graham warned yesterday morning that the union is likely to disaffiliate from the Labour Party if Chancellor Rachel Reeves does not...

THE Bank of England yesterday raised its interest rate from 4.5% to 5%, the highest level for 15 years, in a declaration of war...

THE LABOUR Party would ‘consider very, very strongly’ voting to revoke Article 50 to block a no-deal Brexit this Friday, Shadow Business Secretary Rebecca...

SENIOR civil servant Sue Gray’s anticipated report into illegal lockdown gatherings held in and around Downing Street by members of the government has been...

SOARING milk, cheese and egg costs have pushed food inflation to its highest level for 14 years, with millions of UK families heading into...

HUNDREDS of school youth staged a strike for climate change in Parliament Square yesterday. Lana Daly came with friends from west London and said: ‘The...

SEAFARERS union RMT has written to the Secretary of State for Transport, Grant Shapps, to demand a meeting to discuss the government’s failure to...

ALEX Cruz, the author of the notorious BA ‘fire and rehire’ policy, has been sacked as chief executive and chair of British Airways with...

‘THE government is setting itself on a collision course with nursing staff,’ the RCN (Royal College of Nursing) has warned. The RCN, which represents over...

CONSULTANTS in England ended two days of strike action at 7am today. In the absence of any progress in discussions with the government, they will...

PC WAYNE Couzens, who kidnapped, raped and murdered Sarah Everard was sentenced yesterday to a ‘whole life order’, which means he will never be...

LABOUR has announced a £26bn real terms Rescue Plan to deliver ‘real change in our health service’. The Labour Party is pledging to end the...

THE likelihood of Thames Water being taken into public ownership has significantly increased, following the shareholders’ refusal to provide £500m in urgent financial support. This...

CARS, lorries and buses hooted support along the busy Bath Road on the perimeter of Heathrow Airport in west London yesterday morning as 1,400...

POLICE arrested demonstrators outside Westminster Magistrates’ Court yesterday, where hundreds gathered in defiance of the proscription of Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act 2000. The...

IT IS A moral outrage to pay workers less than the minimum wage the GMB union told the Tory government yesterday. The union has written...

ALMOST a decade after his WikiLeaks website enraged Washington by leaking secret US documents, a London court will begin hearings on Monday to decide...

British families have experienced the biggest fall in wealth since the pandemic, according to yesterday’s report from banking group UBS. According to UBS, the average...

THE POLICE, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, which threatens the fundamental right to protest, was introduced to Parliament yesterday. The government published some of the...

A PROTEST against GP practices being taken over by US health insurance giant Centene Corporation – branded as ‘the accelerating privatisation of the NHS...

‘FIREFIGHTERS and control staff are being left with no other choice but to take action,’ Fire Brigades Union (FBU) General Secretary Matt Wrack said...

LABOUR Prime Minister Keir Starmer banged the war drums against Russia yesterday and claimed that he intends to make Britain ‘battle-ready’. ‘Russia is already menacing...

A MASS Rally of over 150 Serco strikers and supporters took place at Walthamstow’s Whipp’s Cross Hospital yesterday morning, as part of their two-week...

FOOD costs and energy bills are soaring, with the energy crisis driving consumer prices up at the fastest rate in 30 years, latest figures...

THE TORY war on the railways and railway workers is to resume immediately, with reports yesterday of mass ticket office closures being ‘hardwired’ into...

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...