TORIES IMPOSE £10,000 FINES! – and make appeal for informers
THE TORY government is imposing a new legal duty to ‘self-isolate’ if instructed to do so by ‘NHS Test and Trace’ from next Monday,...
Renationalise Harland & Wolff!
AFTER the Scottish government announced they will nationalise Ferguson Marine shipyard, trade unions are calling on the UK government to safeguard jobs and skills...
JLR to shut for 9 days!
JAGUAR Land Rover is to shut its Halewood plant in Merseyside for nine days, in the latest development in the sharpening car manufacture crisis. Jaguar...
‘The government needs to make a credible offer!’ says Junior Doctors Chair Rob Lawrenson
‘THE GOVERNMENT needs to sit down and make a credible offer so we have a health system that works,’ BMA Junior Doctors Committee Co-Chair,...
Another huge show of strength! – UCU strike rally, King’s Cross 1.00pm today
‘Vice chancellors are about to witness another huge show of strength,’ UCU (University and College Union) General Secretary Jo Grady said yesterday, speaking ahead...
Workers support WRP candidates
‘I AM voting Jonty Leff WRP because I want Universal Credit scrapped,’ David Vervin said as the team fighting to get Leff elected launched...
EU deal ‘overwhelmingly unlikely’ – Merkel tells PM Johnson
GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel poured buckets of cold water over Tory PM Boris Johnson’s attempts to get a Brexit deal with the EU when,...
‘Sleepwalking towards another catastrophe’ – FBU statement marking 2 years since Grenfell fire
‘WE RISK sleepwalking into another catastrophic loss of life. We demand urgent action from the government to ensure that the events of Grenfell Tower...
Tories Planning To Break ‘Trade Union Stranglehold’
THE TORY government is drawing up plans for new anti-union laws to ‘break the stranglehold of the trade unions’, The Sunday Telegraph newspaper disclosed...
Teachers fear schools still unsafe as millions return
‘TEACHERS are concerned that the government have not taken the safety measures that they should have done,’ Dr Mary Bousted, Joint General Secretary of...
Upfront fees deter patients – Immigrants denied cancer treatment says BMA
PATIENTS from other countries are failing to get the urgent cancer treatment they need, because of upfront fees. These fees are ‘deterring immigrants from...
NHS Faces ‘Worst Ever Winter!’
THE LATEST ‘catastrophic’ NHS performance figures have sparked fears that the health service is on track for the ‘worst ever’ winter, the BMA doctors’...
The Great Care Home Massacre!
A series of ‘shockingly irresponsible’ government decisions put tens of thousands of older people’s lives at risk and led to multiple violations of care...
UK ‘The Sick Man Of Europe!’ Say Nurses
THE RCN (Royal College of Nursing) has called on the Health Secretary to open negotiations on NHS pay as new research shows the UK...
‘Give It Back’ Huge Support For Strike To Restore 10% Pay Cut
IN the first test of public opinion since British Airways check-in staff announced that they will take strike action to have their pay restored...
Furlough scheme will be extended till October 31
THE FURLOUGH scheme, where currently 6.2 million workers who are not working during the coronavirus crisis are getting 80% of their wages paid by...
Need for free school meals soars
MORE than one in five pupils are now eligible for free school meals (FSM) following a steep rise during the pandemic, new government data...
Wanted! An arrest warrant for Israeli Foreign Minister Sa’ar!
AN ARREST warrant is being sought by two pro-Palestinian groups Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) and the Hind Rajab Foundation for Israeli Foreign Minister...
Speaker rules out 3rd vote on May’s deal! – UK must leave EU March...
‘WHAT the government cannot legitimately do is to re-submit to the House the same proposition, or substantially the same proposition as that of last...
RATE RISES AND A SHRINKING ECONOMY PREDICTS BoE
THE Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) yesterday increased interest rates to 1.75% – the highest in 27 years. It warned of 13% inflation...
1,500 Lorries Still Stuck
ONE THOUSAND five hundred lorries are still stuck in Kent unable to leave the UK as Tory PM Johnson and French President Macron thrash...
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’...
GPs reject imposed contract! – 99.2% vote NO!!
GENERAL Practitioners (GPs) across England have voted overwhelmingly to reject the new 2024/25 national GP General Medical Services (GMS) contract that was imposed on...
The Tuc Must Call A General Strike Now To Boot The Tories Out!
STATEMENT BY THE NEWS LINE EDITORIAL BOARD THE News Line Editorial Board sends its May Day greetings to the working class, the youth and the...
RAAB GRILLED BY MPs
TORY Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab appeared before MPs on the Foreign Affairs Committee yesterday, where he was questioned about the end of the UK’s...
‘SHAME ON YOU TOWER HAMLETS’ – workers fighting mass sackings and wage cutting
‘TOWER Hamlets, shame on you!’ shouted the 40-strong picket of striking council workers outside Albert Jacob House on Roman Road in east London yesterday...
Ford to axe 12,000 jobs across EU – UK job losses double to 3,100
FORD has almost doubled the amount of job losses to hit car workers in the UK; now as many as 3,100 face the sack...
McDonnell wants secret talks!
YESTERDAY, Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell accused PM May of having ‘blown the confidentiality’ over Labour support for her EU Withdrawal Agreement and demanded secret...
‘Get ready for our strike ballot result’ – RCN nurses issue strong warning
‘WE DON’T forget that our pay was cut by you,’ 300,000 nurses who are currently balloting for strike action told the newly appointed Tory...
BAME PPE crisis is continuing!
BLACK, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) nursing staff are still more likely to have problems accessing protective equipment, according to latest UK-wide member survey...
‘Metropolitan police recruiting criminals’ – concludes police watchdog
THE METROPOLITAN Police’s approach to tackling corruption within its ranks is ‘fundamentally flawed,’ an inspection by the police watchdog published yesterday concluded. It found the...
‘Take a stand to save our NHS from Tories!’ – Unite leader Sharon Graham
AMBULANCE worker members of the GMB, Unite and Unison unions will take national strike action on 21st December, with paramedics, emergency care assistants, call...
Streeting announces 18,000 NHS sackings
THE LABOUR government announced 18,000 NHS staff sackings in England yesterday, with a deal with the Treasury signed off to hand the health service...
BANK OF ENGLAND BUYS GOVERNMENT BONDS! – to try to restore orderly market conditions
THE Bank of England (BoE) launched a huge intervention in government bond markets yesterday, as the UK financial crisis spiralled out of control following...
1,800 will spend Christmas in an immigration detention centre!
UK GOVERNMENT figures show that over 1,800 people in Britain will spend the Christmas holiday incarcerated in immigration detention centres, prompting calls to end...
OCCUPIED! – UCL student action in support of UCU lecturers strike
AT UNIVERSITY College London (UCL) over fifty students occupied the Cloister Building at 7am yesterday morning in front of the Provost’s office, and plan...
Care cost dumped on the backs of the poor – by Tory amendment to...
‘THIS IS daylight robbery,’ Labour’s shadow health secretary, Jonathan Ashworth warned yesterday as the Health and Social Care Bill began its third reading. He was...
97% of teachers oppose SATs – National strike is looming
NINETY seven percent of 54,000 primary school teachers polled are opposed to the SATs exams, their union the National Education Union reports today, the...
Assange At Risk Of Being ‘Tortured To Death’
WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange, who has been held in terrible conditions in Belmarsh Prison, is ‘in a dire state of health due to psychological...
Powerful Night Tube Picket Lines In Place
POWERFUL picket lines were in place on London Underground (LU) Central and Victoria lines across the weekend, as RMT members took strike action against...
Aylesbury solitary confinement
THE Aylesbury Young Offender Institution in Buckinghamshire has been locking up hundreds of teenage prisoners in their cells in solitary confinement for over 23-hours...
‘The Tories crashed the economy while working people are taking the hit’ – TUC
TRADE union leaders on Thursday gave their response to Chancellor Hunt’s austerity war on workers in his Autumn Statement. TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady said: ‘The...
£12bn NI RISE MUST GO AHEAD! – say Johnson and Sunak
THE £12bn rise in National Insurance Contributions (NIC) from April is ‘the right plan’ and ‘must go ahead’, Boris Johnson and Chancellor Rishi Sunak...
London Tube Staff To Walk Out
TUBE staff have called for urgent talks with London’s mayor to avert a strike expected to cause severe disruption. Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union...
NATIONAL RAIL STRIKE LOOMS – TSSA warns action over Tory job cuts
THE TSSA union warned yesterday: ‘A national rail strike in 2022 is very much on the cards’ as the Tory government seeks to cut...