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The UK unemployment rate rose to 5% in the three months to September, with the Bank of England (BoE) predicting it will stay that...

THE RMT has called a National Rail Strike on Tuesday June 21st, when over 50,000 railway workers, including Network Rail, 13 train operating companies...

A BLACK schoolgirl was strip-searched by police after being wrongly suspected of carrying cannabis. The ‘traumatic’ search by Metropolitan Police officers took place without another...

STAFF at Imperial College London have voted ‘no confidence’ in the university’s President Alice Gast and Muir Sanderson Chief Financial Officer demanding that they...

NEW RESEARCH by ActionAid, Public Services International, and Education International warns that the International Monetary Fund’s demands to cut public sector employee costs undermine...

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...

‘THE people behind me haven’t had a pay rise for half a decade,’ ASLEF General Secretary Mick Whelan said yesterday, speaking on the picket...

SEVEN UNIONS have warned about their dispute with the UK’s largest academy trust over staff cuts, low pay and outsourcing. The unions have now registered...

GRENFELL survivors and supporters marched in North Kensington on Tuesday evening demanding ‘Prosecutions now!’ ‘Today we are changing our tone, we are demanding change, enough...

LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced National Insurance (NI) and income tax thresholds will be frozen for an extra three years beyond 2028 in her...

JUNIOR doctors are staging a full walkout in England beginning at 7am today, Thursday 27 June and ending at 7am on Tuesday 2nd July. The...

‘NO ONE should be immune from prosecution. The firefighters certainly weren’t and the manufacturers of the cladding definitely should not be,’ Lucy Masoud FBU...

TWO TORY MPs, Sir Roger Gale and Douglas Ross, have publicly confirmed that they have submitted a letter of no confidence in the prime...

HUNDREDS of health workers blocked the entrance to NHS England’s headquarters in central London yesterday. They were demanding the cancellation of business deals with American...

LABOUR Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer beat the war drums at the Scottish Labour Party Conference in Glasgow yesterday. He said that ‘we can’t cling...

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...

ASLEF Tube drivers will strike on Wednesday 26 and Friday 28 July, alongside their RMT colleagues, closing down the London Underground (LU) network at...

PM JOHNSON shed crocodile tears on Saturday as UK Covid-19 fatalities passed the 150,000 mark, with the BMA doctors’ union warning that ‘still the...

Churchill Security is based in Chorley and employs more than 160 people in the UK, including Cardiff Bay, Cheltenham, Watford, Milton Keynes, Bromley, Abingdon...

‘I REPEAT that I have been repeatedly assured since these allegations emerged that there was no party and that no Covid rules were broken,’...

A LIVELY picket of 200 bin men, came out in support of the bin strikers in Birmingham yesterday morning, marking one year of the...

THE University of Portsmouth is under fire over plans to axe more than half its English literature department. The university suspended the process in...

YESTERDAY in Parliament, Tory Health Secretary Matt Hancock said that less serious cases would be turned away from A&E and only the most serious...

A STARTLING new report published by the Queen’s Nursing Institute (QNI) states that during the peak of the pandemic people in care homes were...

THE TORY government will introduce ‘Emergency Powers’ tomorrow, Tuesday, which are to be voted on in the House of Commons on Thursday, Health Secretary...

BRITISH Steel has announced the start of a formal consultation that could lead to the closure of its two blast furnaces in Scunthorpe, placing...

‘JERMAINE was dead before he got into the car on 11th December 2016,’ Jermaine Baker’s mother Margaret Smith said yesterday, She was speaking after an...

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...

TORY PM Johnson was joined by head of NHS England Simon Stevens at a joint press conference yesterday afternoon in which they reported 492...

LONDON Mayor Sadiq Khan has blocked a £50m Metropolitan Police contract with US surveillance technology company Palantir, citing a ‘clear and serious breach’ of...

WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange has been sent back to Belmarsh high security prison after a judge refused him bail yesterday, despite a decision to...

THE METROPOLITAN Police have thrown a spanner into the works of the rapidly developing crisis in the Tory government and party. There is now confusion...

‘REDUCING Universal Credit and Working Tax Credit would be fundamentally the wrong decision. It would be a profound mistake and put millions of families...

LABOUR Party leader Starmer ‘should be backing staff, not the bosses’, says the UCU trade union. The union was responding to Labour leader Keir Starmer’s...

OVER 2,000 security guards at Heathrow Airport are holding a further 33 days of strike action throughout the summer. The 33 days of strike action...

UNITE yesterday welcomed the news that the government will bring Sheffield Forgemasters into public ownership. The news came as the giant Honda plant in Swindon...

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

THE TORY government issued details about how it intends to use its Minimum Service Levels (MSL) anti-strike laws to wage war against education workers...

‘THIS report rightly blames the government’s austerity agenda, including cuts to support services and children’s centres, for limiting the educational potential of disadvantaged young...

THE COURT of Appeal has overturned a High Court injunction that would have forced asylum seekers to leave the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex. Giving...

TORY PM Johnson must wait until there are fewer than 1,000 Covid infections a day before lifting lockdown, NHS bosses and scientists have warned. The...

MARKING four-and-a-half years since the horrific Grenfell Tower fire on June 14, 2017, survivors and campaigners are demanding police accelerate their criminal investigation into...

OVER 100 striking St Mungo’s workers and other trade unionists lobbied City Hall yesterday lunchtime demanding better pay and conditions. There will be a further...

DOCTORS union the BMA yesterday responded to the shocking latest England GP workforce data and Health Foundation forecasts, showing a dramatic slump in the...

MIDWIFE and maternity support worker (MSW) members of the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) across Scotland have overwhelmingly voted ‘yes’ on taking industrial action,...