‘A nurses strike is long overdue’
NURSES at Lewisham hospital spoke up in favour of going on strike, on the day the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) strongly called for...
Teachers Need Fully Funded Above Inflation Pay Rises!
UNIONS representing teachers and school leaders in England are united in calling on the School Teachers’ Review Body to make urgent recommendations on pay,...
Students join striking university staff – Day one of 3-day strike at 58 unis
AS PART of the nationwide three-day strike to combat pay and pension cuts to university staff, a team of over 40 activists from unions...
RMT’s Lynch welcomes ASLEF strike vote
RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch has welcomed the overwhelming strike vote by ASLEF members in eight train operating companies, setting the scene for a...
Serco hospital workers are set to strike!
PATIENTS at the Royal London hospital in Whitechapel, East London, are facing the prospect of ‘food chaos’ later this month, after workers employed by...
RCN warns cuts could put patient safety at risk!
THE RCN (Royal College of Nursing) is warning that cuts to Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) could put patient safety at risk and undermine the...
Massive 97% NO vote! – 400 Birmingham binmen reject pay cuts
STRIKING Birmingham bin workers have overwhelmingly rejected, by 97%, the council’s ‘totally inadequate’ offer, with hundreds of members of the Unite union voting against...
‘All asbestos must be removed from schools!’
Education unions in the UK have reaffirmed the urgent need to protect students and education workers from asbestos in schools, demanding that ‘all asbestos...
TORIES TO USE ARMY TO BREAK STRIKES! – PCS leader condemns strike-breaking plans
THE TORY government has revealed that it is set to begin training hundreds of British Army personnel as strike-breakers this month, to be mobilised...
Primary schools are cutting teaching assistants
‘ALMOST a decade of Conservative education cuts has left our children’s future in a perilous state,’ says the GMB trade union. It has responded to...
Time to disband scandal ridden Met police force
DAME Cressida Dick ‘felt intimidated’ into stepping down as Metropolitan Police Commissioner after an ultimatum from London Labour Mayor, Sadiq Khan, according to a...
Unite rejects cutting NHS ‘sick notes!’
GOVERNMENT proposals to force GPs to sign fewer sick notes for workers have been rejected by Doctors in Unite, which represents GPs and doctors...
‘Shut Down Inquiry! It’s A Disgrace!’
‘SHUT down the inquiry, it’s a disgrace!’ protesters shouted outside the Grenfell inquiry yesterday, on the first day it resumed after the Attorney General...
Striking NHS Workers March
STRIKING NHS workers from south London’s psychiatric hospitals marched yesterday from Camberwell Green to the headquarters of the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust...
TORIES ‘FORCING’ WEEKEND RAIL STRIKES – insist ASLEF’s Whelan and the RMT’s Lynch
ASLEF members working as drivers for over a dozen train operators will strike this Friday 12th May, and then again on Wednesday 31st May...
‘Probe Johnson for corporate manslaughter’ – Labour MP – Care home incompetence led to...
‘WHEN will the Prime Minister and others be investigated by the police for alleged corporate manslaughter and why did they not follow the example...
STATE SPYING: Police launch facial recognition app – UN slams state spying on disabled!
SOUTH Wales Police have launched a facial recognition app which is to be installed on their officers’ phones, prompting human rights campaigners Liberty to...
‘We will Brexit October 31 despite Benn Act’ – Johnson
TORY PM Johnson said yesterday that he believed there was ‘a good chance’ of a Brexit deal with the EU, while also insisting that...
Ministers pledge measures to control cost of living
YESTERDAY’S King’s Speech was opened yesterday by King Charles III. The main issues in the King’s Speech were that ministers will support measures that control...
JLR seeks £2bn government loan!
JAGUAR Land Rover (JLR) has been in talks with the government for weeks to secure a loan of £2bn, to prevent mass sackings following...
Ring before going to A&E! Dangerous triage system launched in Wales tomorrow! –...
A DANGEROUS phone triage scheme for A&E at Wales’ largest hospital is to be launched tomorrow in which patients are expected to ring before...
Starmer poised to clash with unions over pay rise demands
LABOUR PM Keir Starmer is poised for a clash with the unions after downplaying the likelihood of real-terms pay rises for public sector workers...
Corridor care ‘unsafe, undignified, unacceptable’ says RCN
‘CARE delivered in corridors and other non-clinical spaces is unsafe, undignified and unacceptable,’ the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said yesterday in response to...
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...
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...
B of E raises its Bank Rate to 4%
THE Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) at its meeting ending on 1 February 2023, voted by a majority of 7-2 to increase...
International support for UK rail workers!
STRIKING RMT railway workers were boosted by the leader of the US Amazon Labour Union joining their picket line at Euston Station yesterday morning. ALU...
Workers hit by global gas hike – Unison warns of big shocks to come
An unprecedented rise in the price of gas has sent shock waves through the UK energy market, forcing energy suppliers out of business, threatening...
‘Big Four’ supermarkets pay back £1.7bn in Covid funds
SUPERMARKET giants Tesco and Morrisons have claimed almost £1bn worth of emergency finances between them – finances that were made available for shops that...
No Windfall Tax On Gas & Oil Companies
PM TRUSS will limit energy bill rises for all households for two years as the new Prime Minister tries to prevent the British economy...
Starmer withdraws support for Pro-Palestine Labour candidate
LABOUR has removed its backing for Palestine-supporting Rochdale by-election candidate Azhar Ali. Ali was recorded speaking out in support of Palestine at a Labour Party...
Workers to get 67% of wages – bosses to get free labour under Sunak...
TORY CHANCELLOR Sunak set out yesterday more massive support for businesses forced to close by law, with much tighter virus rules expected in England...
23 years since Ladbroke Grove disaster
TWENTY-THREE YEARS after 31 lives were lost in the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster, RMT says that government policy is in danger of dragging the...
‘SEIZE OUR SHIPS!’ – demand sacked P&O workers outside Parliament
OUTSIDE Parliament yesterday a two hundred-strong rally of P&O workers and their supporters shouted: ‘Seize our ships!’ and ‘P&O we say no!’ The rally was...
Starmer right-wing move causing ‘chaos’ in Labour Party – warns Unite
THE THREE-DAY Labour Policy Forum (LPF) held in Nottingham over the weekend was ‘chaotic’, Unite said yesterday, with the Starmer party leadership seeking to...
COMPANIES TO LAUNCH MASS SACKINGS – following big cut in furlough payments
ONE-IN-FIVE companies are planning to sack workers in response to yesterday’s cut in furlough payments, a British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) survey has found. From...
Huddersfield University UCU fighting large scale sackings
THE University and College Union (UCU) yesterday slammed the University of Huddersfield for large-scale redundancy proposals that could see staff lose their jobs by...
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...
LABOUR RENEGADE AUSTIN REFUSES TO DENY HE’LL VOTE TORY
IAN AUSTIN, MP for Dudley North in the West Midlands, who quit the Labour Party yesterday, said that he will not call a by-election,...
Blackburn College Sacking Staff But Boosting Bosses’ Pensions!
LECTURERS are furious after Blackburn College announced plans to sack staff but boost bosses’ pensions. 29 jobs are at risk in the fifth round of...
Labour’s Winter Fuel cut has plunged pensioners into poverty
WORK and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall openly admitted on Tuesday that the Labour government cut the £300 Winter Fuel Payment to 10 million pensioners...
RMT calls National Rail Strike!
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...
Junior Doctors walk out today!
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...
‘Vote For Strike Action This Year’ – Urges Rcn
ROYAL COLLEGE of Nursing (RCN) leader Pat Cullen has responded to NHS data showing nurse vacancies have jumped to a record level by urging...
Labour’s electoral stranglehold is over! – ‘people won’t be taken for granted’
POLITICIANS across Westminster responded on Friday to the Green Party’s capture of the Gorton and Denton parliamentary seat. Green Party leader Zack Polanski described the...