US-UK medicines deal will cost NHS £9 billion a year!
A controversial UK-US medicines deal will cost the NHS an estimated £9bn a year by 2035 in higher drug prices, critics have warned. The agreement,...
Schoolchildren to be served smaller portions!
SCHOOL caterers will have to serve children smaller portions or use cheaper ingredients, they were warned yesterday. Andrew Selley, boss of Bidfood, one of the...
‘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...
COVID-19s BRUTAL IMPACT ON NHS says BMA leader Chaand Nagpaul
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...
Cancer Research Strikers Meet Up At Sutton
STRIKERS from the Institute of Cancer Research at its Chelsea and Sutton sites met at Sutton railway station yesterday as part of their ongoing...
26 College Principals received pay rises of over 10%
ENGLISH College principals increased their pay by four times the rate recommended by the sector’s employer body, the University and College Union (UCU) has...
MAY’S GRENFELL CLAIM ‘DISGRACEFUL’ says FBU
FOLLOWING Theresa May’s resignation speech, in which the Prime Minister spoke of her response to the Grenfell Tower Fire, the Fire Brigades Union (FBU)...
Draconian police state powers
DRACONIAN emergency powers contained within the Coronavirus Bill were debated during the bill’s second reading in Parliament yesterday. Police state measures were outlined to detain...
Anger erupts outside Chauvin murder trial!
AS THE murder trial of officer Derek Chauvin continued for the killing of George Floyd, anger erupted outside the Court House where masses of...
NO EXTRADITION! – demands rally for Assange outside Woolwich Crown Court
WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange’s trial at Woolwich Crown Court began yesterday morning, where the Tory government is seeking to extradite him to the US...
Stop the gap between rich and poor!
UNITE leader Sharon Graham warned yesterday morning that the union is likely to disaffiliate from the Labour Party if Chancellor Rachel Reeves does not...
Criminal charges against Grenfell guilty now! – GMB Congress delegates vote unanimously
A MOTION committing the GMB union to fight for criminal charges to be brought against those responsible for the Grenfell Tower Fire was passed...
BA pilots strike!
BALPA (British Airline Pilots Association) yesterday gave notice to British Airways that it calls on its members to strike on 9th, 10th and 27th...
Cladding Lobby
TENANTS came from all over the country to lobby Parliament yesterday demanding that the tower blocks they live in are immediately stripped of flammable...
PM JOHNSON DUMPS PLAN B! – in a desperate attempt to remain PM
AFTER A DAY of plots, counter plots and demands that he go, PM Johnson, in his lunchtime statement to the House of Commons, attempted...
Assange High Court decision today!
THE HIGH Court is going to announce its decision on whether Julian Assange is going to be allowed to appeal against his extradition to...
BoE raises bank rate to 5.25% – predicts ‘shocks and disturbances ahead!’
THE Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), at its meeting ending on 2nd August 2023, voted by a majority of 6-3 to increase...
Renationalise Thomas Cook!
NINE thousand Thomas Cook workers lost their jobs yesterday with a further 20,000 threatened across Europe as the company, founded in 1841, went bust....
Truss Backing Call For UK Citizens To Fight In Ukraine
TORY Foreign Secretary Truss and Labour Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy were united in calling for an escalation of military and economic war against...
Healey’s budget – nothing for the working class but £10 billion for Ukraine!
LABOUR Chancellor John Healey delivered a bosses’ and bankers’ budget yesterday, opening with a warning that ‘what we face today are global economic storms’. Fearful...
Vaccines for 12-15s – boosters for 50+ says Johnson
‘I WANT to set out our plan for Covid this winter and in many ways the situation we face is even more challenging than...
‘Don’t use anti-strike laws against us!’ – FBU leader Matt Wrack urges fire chiefs
THE FBU (Fire Brigades Union) has called on all fire service employers to refuse to implement the government’s new minimum service levels, condemning the...
EVICTIONS PROCEED – for those with pre-pandemic arrears
DESPITE the Tories’ assurances that no one will be evicted during the pandemic, any renters who have built up arrears before the pandemic face...
‘Unite against hunger!’ – Bakers union leader Woolley
‘BELFAST, Liverpool and London must unite against hunger during the Right To Food Week 2023’ says Sarah Wooley the general secretary of the Bakers...
‘Get rid of all privatised companies’ urge the striking Junior Doctors
Junior doctors manned a lively and determined picket outside the Maudsley Hospital in south London yesterday, determined to defend their patients and the NHS. Laith...
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...
‘NO CHOICE BUT TO TAKE ACTION!’ say firefighters and control staff
‘FIREFIGHTERS and control staff are being left with no other choice but to take action,’ Fire Brigades Union (FBU) General Secretary Matt Wrack said...
GENERAL STRIKE TO BRING THIS GOVERNMENT DOWN! say Aslef pickets
OVER 20,000 railway worker members of Aslef and the RMT unions were on strike yesterday, with powerful picket lines outside scores of stations all...
‘Forced out by company greed’ – Unite condemns BA mass sackings and wage cuts
A BLEAK day for staff ‘forced out by company greed’ will scar spiteful BA indefinitely the Unite union said yesterday, It added: ‘On the day...
Labour supports key NHS role for health privateers!
PRIVATE health trade body the Independent Healthcare Providers Network (IHPN) has welcomed the cross-party consensus on the key role of the independent sector in...
Working class kids denied education!
THE CHILDREN of working class families are being denied an education during the coronavirus lockdown as many families do not have access to laptops,...
Fire and Rescue cuts puts flood victims lives at risk
VICIOUS Tory cuts to the tune of £140 million mean that fire and rescue services are fighting with one hand tied behind their back....
Covid-19 Crisis – London Moves To Tier 3!
‘WE MUST act now to shift the curve, when the virus develops exponentially there is not a moment to spare.’ This is what Matt Hancock,...
14 Days Strike At 74 Universities!
THE BLAME for the disruption to students’ education by strike action starting today lays squarely at the door of vice-chancellors, said the University and...
British Steel formally taken into public ownership
BRITISH Steel has formally been taken into public ownership, fifteen months after the government intervened to prevent the closure of its Scunthorpe steelworks and...
Chinese Rover sends back Mars ‘selfie’!
LAST WEEK, US President Joe Biden signed an Executive Order to enhance and extend a Trump-era ban on investments with 59 Chinese companies, barring...
Vote ‘yes’ RCN urges 300,000 nurses as new strike ballot opens
‘THIS IS unfinished business,’ said the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) leader Pat Cullen yesterday, urging members to vote YES as the union opened...
GRENFELL CRISIS – 88 claimants refuse to negotiate with council until it admits liability
THE HIGH Court has ruled that the 1,000 claims against The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) and its tenant management organisation (TMO)...
Frontline NHS staff must be vaccinated! – Many NHS staff have lost their...
FRONTLINE health and social care workers must be given every opportunity to have the Covid-19 vaccine, BMA council chair Chaand Nagpaul has said. Dr Nagpaul...
Johnson-Sunak Sought To Avoid Self-Isolation
PM JOHNSON and Chancellor Sunak were forced into a humiliating u-turn yesterday morning, having initially sought to avoid self-isolating after having been ‘pinged’ following...
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...
Sacked and smeared for standing up for postmasters
FORMER chairman of the Post Office Henry Staunton dropped a bombshell on the Tories when he appeared before the Business and Trade Select Committee...
Super-exploitation in Covid-infected meat factories!
THE LINK between outbreaks of Covid-19 at meat processing plants and the sector’s widespread exploitation of migrant workers on low pay and insecure contracts...
‘It’s Time For A General Strike!’
HAMMERSMITH and City Line Tube RMT branch secretary Ian Flatman, told News Line: ‘The strike here is absolutely solid. It’s time for a general...
Starmer eager to work with the bosses and the military
LABOUR Party leader Keir Starmer followed up his refusal to support the £15-an-hour motion carried by the conference on Monday by boasting in his...