Ealing Anger At Strike Sellout!
EALING Parking Service workers are angry at the way in which their strike has been sold out. Unite Branch Secretary Harjinder Nagi told News Line...
‘Health And Care Is At Breaking Point!’ – Says Rcn Director Marquis
‘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,...
Bring LT cleaners back in-house
AS THE Omicron crisis grips the capital, Labour politicians yesterday called for public ownership of London Transport cleaning services. The MPs and peers made the...
Safe staffing levels now! demands RCN
NURSES at their annual RCN (Royal College of Nursing) conference in Liverpool yesterday demanded that NHSEngland finally adopts a Safe Staffing Level, requiring by...
TUC MUST CALL GENERAL STRIKE! – bring down Tories – bring in a workers...
THE railways will be shut down for 3 days on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, when workers from Network Rail and 13 train operating companies...
Corbyn calls emergency shadow cabinet meeting
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn is to hold an emergency shadow cabinet meeting next Monday to discuss alleged anti-Semitism within the party. The meeting was called...
Royal Mail Job Security Crisis
ASSURANCES about the future job security of Royal Mail managers are being sought by Unite, Britain and Ireland’s largest union, following the company’s ‘poor’...
MILLIONS OF BRITONS COLD AND HUNGRY – finds ONS survey
MILLIONS of Britons are cold, hungry and struggling to get medical care this winter amid the cost-of living-crisis. Almost a quarter of adults have not...
CWU pickets call for a general strike
‘I’m 100 per cent for a general strike,’ Communication Workers Union (CWU) Capital Branch Assistant Secretary and BT Tower rep Darren Weller said yesterday...
Labour Party Conference sings ‘God save the King’
THE LABOUR Party Conference in Liverpool opened yesterday with a minute’s silence, followed by leader Sir Keir Starmer leading the hall in singing God...
‘If other workers want to come out with us they are very welcome!’
THE RMT strike action went ahead yesterday after talks on Wednesday broke down without agreement. John Gutteridge, RMT Learning Rep spoke to News Line on...
‘Keep going to win your demands’ – says UCU President
STRIKING UCU lecturers from Further Education Colleges across London packed out a strike rally at the Emanuelle Centre in Marsham Street in central London...
‘STAND FIRM, SUPPORT THE ACTION’ – RMT leader Lynch urges rail workers
‘STAND FIRM, support the action and mount the pickets,’ RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch urged his members defiantly yesterday afternoon as he confirmed that...
‘BRUTAL’ WORKING CONDITIONS AT AMAZON RUGELEY!
THE GMB is presenting a giant Valentine’s card to the Amazon warehouse in Rugeley in the Midlands today to highlight the ‘brutal’ working conditions. Workers...
Starmer’s Labour Brings Forward Anti-Working Class King’s Speech
THE STARMER Labour government brought forward an anti-working class King’s Speech in Parliament yesterday morning. It announced 40 pieces of legislation, starting with a Budget...
DWP staff to get police powers! – to investigate the poorest people on Universal...
DWP STAFF are to get police powers, the Tory government announced yesterday to investigate the poorest people on Universal Credit. The DWP (Department for Work...
Tens of thousands forced into private ‘healthcare’ as Tories set out to torpedo the...
GOVERNMENT’S refusal to properly finance the NHS has led to desperate people paying thousands of pounds for private treatment. There were 69,000 self-funded treatments in...
Easyjet Pilots Will Fight For Every Job – Balpa
MORE than 2,000 easyJet pilots (99.9%) have voted overwhelmingly to express no confidence in the company’s Chief Operations Officer, Peter Bellew. BALPA, which organised the...
‘Spending cuts, job losses and pension attacks must end!’ – RMT leader Mick Lynch...
SPENDING CUTS, job losses and pension attacks must end, the RMT told the London Mayor yesterday. The Tube workers’ union wrote to Sadiq Khan, emphasising...
Labour conference votes for £15-an-hour minimum wage. Bakers’ union disaffiliates from Labour over Starmer’s...
THE BAKERS’ union (BFAWU), which was one of the first unions to fight to set up the Labour Party in 1902, disaffiliated from the...
British Gas Staff Reject Boss’s Obscene Rise
THE Unite and GMB trade unions have called on Ford to come clean over the future of its UK operations. They are warning that its...
50% rise in lorry driver deaths – exposed by Unite research
UNITE has called for urgent reforms into how the deaths of workers and members of the public killed and injured in road accidents...
Watson rebukes non-social democrat Corbyn
THE DEPUTY leader of the Labour Party Tom Watson spoke to Andrew Marr’s BBC show on Sunday about diverting the party away from its...
North Kensington Workers Fighting Racism!
FRIENDS and family, concerned members of the North Kensington community and local campaigners joined forces on Saturday evening to demand justice for El, a...
A monumental victory! – Palestine Action High Court win
THE HIGH Court has ruled that the government’s decision to ban the pro-Palestinian campaign group Palestine Action as a ‘terrorist organisation’ was unlawful. In a...
Kwarteng’s mini budget is a major attack on the working class
CHANCELLOR Kwasi Kwarteng yesterday unveiled his mini-budget that will see the working class and the poor robbed, in order to further enrich the UK...
Tories announce £330bn bailout for big business
TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak yesterday unveiled a multi-billion bailout for big businesses in light of the coronavirus crisis. Speaking at the daily press conference Sunak...
SECOND COVID PEAK IS LIKELY! say thousands of BMA doctors
THOUSANDS of doctors say a second Covid peak is very likely and is their greatest fear this winter. A major survey of doctors by the...
NHS hospital managers must be accountable! say BMA consultants
THE lead consultant on the neonatal unit where Lucy Letby worked said yesterday that hospital managers should be regulated in a similar way to...
Blairite Campbell Expelled From The Labour Party!
FORMER Blair spin doctor Alastair Campbell has been expelled from the Labour Party after he revealed that he voted for the Liberal Democrats in...
‘We will strike for as long as it takes!’ – says BMA chair of...
‘WE WILL strike for as long as it takes,’ British Medical Association (BMA) Chair of Council Professor Philip Banfield told the doctors’ union’s cheering...
Unite supports the pro-Palestine boycott movement against Israel
UNITE has declared its support for the pro-Palestine Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against the Israeli regime, condemning the new legislation barring institutions...
‘When we win power, it will be to give it to you’ – McDonnell...
SPEAKING at a press conference on the ‘first hundred days’ of a Labour government, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, John McDonnell, pledged: ‘So let...
Bloody Sunday only 1 prosecution
‘WE WILL continue on and hopefully get the rest of the perpetrators to justice, because there are legal means to get them prosecuted and...
BofE cuts interest rates to 0.1%
THE BANK of England cut its base rate to a record low of 0.1%, a sliver above zero, warning the coronavirus pandemic will result...
‘Flawed algorithm’ throws unemployed to the wolves
UNIVERSAL CREDIT claimants have been thrown into destitution, poverty, homelessness and starvation as a direct result of a ‘flawed algorithm’ a damning new welfare...
No NHS Pay Update Is An Insult To All UK Workers
TORY Social Care Minister Helen Whately was yesterday afternoon unable to give an update on the government’s NHS pay offer. All she could say was...
Tories are now rushing to smash & privatise NHS!
THE TORY goverment is now rushing to privatise the NHS, by using all means that are available for the task including the use of...
‘British government must issue medical visas for injured children from the Gaza Strip!’
A PARLIAMENTARY session in Westminster has called on the British government to urgently issue medical visas for injured children from Gaza, enabling them to...
Johnson speaks as troops go in
‘IT would be fatal if this sense of progress over vaccines was now to breed any kind complacency,’ Tory PM Boris Johnson said yesterday...
NO MORE STALLING ON PAY! – warn physios as they launch strike ballot
‘VOTE YES,’ the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) urged as it launched a strike ballot of the remainder of its 63,000 members in England...
Junior doctors begin 72hr strike
THERE were powerful picket lines outside hospitals around the country yesterday as junior doctors began a 72-hour strike against Tory attacks on the NHS...
CUT FARES NOT STAFF! – demand protesters outside stations across UK
PASSENGERS protesting against rail fare increases of 3.5 per cent, many of whom were also demanding the urgent renationalisation of the railways, were joined...
Nurses Vote To Strike In A Majority Of NHS Employers Across UK
NURSING staff have voted to strike in the majority of NHS employers across the UK. Nursing staff at the majority of NHS employers across the...
Over 71,000 sofa surfing this Xmas!
‘HUMILIATING, painful, depressing,’ says a new report released yesterday by homeless charity Crisis, highlighting the brutal realities of ‘sofa surfing’. The research shows that with...