‘There Must Be National Strike Action! – To Win Back Our P&O Members’ Jobs’
‘THERE must be national strike action by the whole RMT to win our P&O members their jobs back,’ leading RMT rep Darren Lalli said...
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...
School nurses and health visitors – County Durham swings axe!
THE THREAT to cut health visitor and community nurse jobs in County Durham, while Covid-19 is still widespread, was branded as ‘incomprehensible’ by the...
Rayner says Labour will overturn anti-strikes law ‘within 100 days’
SHADOW Deputy PM Angela Rayner told the TUC Conference in Liverpool yesterday that a Labour government will overturn the Tory anti-strikes Minimum Service Levels...
MET POLICE SPYING BREACHED HUMAN RIGHTS! – says Investigatory Powers Tribunal
AN activist who was deceived into a relationship with an undercover, spying police officer has won a tribunal case for breaches of her human...
URGENT ACTION NEEDED! – to prevent another Grenfell says the FBU
THE Fire Brigades Union (FBU) called today for urgent action on a range of fire and building safety issues to prevent another Grenfell. On the...
Renegade Blair predicts a UK civil war!
THE Former and completely discredited prime minister Blair, who took the UK into a war with Iraq that was based on lies and brought...
‘NURSING WON’T BE SILENCED!’ – as Tories attack the right to strike
JUST PAST noon yesterday, the decision of the High Court was announced on the three-day RCN strike. This was to run from 8pm on 30th...
Mass mega picket support for Birmingham bin workers
‘There must be 300 here today easily and that is replicated at the other four sites. There are no wagons going out at all...
Picket Grenfell Inquiry
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‘A KICK IN THE TEETH FOR PASSENGERS!’ – TSSA condemns above inflation fare...
TSSA rail union General Secretary, Manuel Cortes, has rounded on the Government over plans for an inflation-busting rail fares increase in England next year...
60 Unis Begin 8-Day Strike!
STUDENTS across the UK were on picket lines yesterday supporting their lecturers and support staff on the first day of their eight-day strike action...
JOBS COLLAPSE – worst unemployment since crash
THE NUMBER of jobs collapsed by 220,000 on the quarter, said the Office for National Statistics yesterday – the largest quarterly decrease since May...
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...
Get out of the EU now! – RMT’s Cash tells May Day rally
‘GET OUT of the EU now,’ RMT general secretary Mick Cash told the May Day rally in Trafalgar Square at the end 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...
Unions decide to intervene on Second Reading of Strikes Bill!
PCS president Fran Heathcote will be speaking at the demo on 16 January to coincide with the second reading of the government’s Strikes Bill. The...
Labour Demanding Windfall Tax Vote!
LABOUR is tomorrow demanding a vote in the House of Commons to introduce a windfall tax on oil and gas companies, with former leader...
Hunt Reveals A Bankrupt Britain
CHANCELLOR Jeremy Hunt has warned it is ‘unlikely’ that there will be room for any ‘significant’ tax cuts in the Budget. But Hunt said that...
‘Where were the bells-tolls for Grenfell?’
THE Coordinator of Justice 4 Grenfell Yvette Williams demanded yesterday, ‘Where were the bell-tolls for Grenfell?’ She contrased the bell tolls and the rush of...
BMA rebuts ‘derogation’ attack
THE British Medical Association yesterday rebutted right wing attacks on its ‘derogation’ system, whereby the NHS can ask for resident doctors, who are taking...
‘HALT ALL CUTS AND OUTSOURCING!’ – unions confront Academies Enterprise Trust
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...
‘We will win this dispute!’ says John McDonnell at Heathrow
‘WE'VE won every dispute at Heathrow in recent years and we’ll win this one,’ local Hayes and Harlington Labour MP John McDonnell said when...
Firefighters role under attack
A PROPOSAL by fire chiefs to expand a firefighter’s role at will and without boundaries has been overwhelming rejected by firefighters by 97%. The proposals...
Manchester specialist fire rescue unit shut!
‘LIVES will be at risk’ if Manchester is targeted again by terrorists because a specialist fire service unit has shut, a watchdog warned yesterday. Concerns...
Suspend Ofsted inspections demands teachers union NEU – Exams for 2021 cancelled in Wales...
‘SUSPEND Ofsted inspections’ demanded Dr Mary Bousted, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union (NEU) yesterday, responding to Ofsted’s second report into the...
Sweeping police powers extended for 6 months! – Labour votes with Tories to renew...
THE CORONAVIRUS Act was put to Parliament for renewal yesterday, extending the sweeping police powers contained in it for a further six months until...
No demolition without our say so – Grenfell families
‘NOTHING is going to happen to it until we say so,’ Karim Musilly from Genfell United said defiantly yesterday, responding to reports that the...
TUC warns nurses of huge wage ‘hit!’ – says Johnson will impose 3% ‘rise’
NURSES will suffer a huge wage ‘hit’ this year if the Government imposes a pay rise well below the soaring rate of inflation, unions...
HANDS OFF OUR PENSIONS! – 37 Universities to strike!
STAFF at 37 universities are to strike over an ‘unprecedented attack on their pensions’, it was announced by their union University College Union (UCU)...
SUPPORT BUILDS UP FOR LEFF – as Labour brings out its Regional Manifestos
‘I SUPPORT Jonty Leff,’ Gideon Woldeslassie said yesterday morning, referring to the campaign to elect the Workers Revolutionary Party candidate as MP for Hackney...
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...
NHS buildings ‘verge of collapse’ – Risk of ‘corporate manslaughter’!
AN NHS hospital has commissioned a report into the risk of corporate mans-laughter charges should a fatal roof collapse occur, leaked documents exposed yesterday. West...
RMT calls a march on Downing Street
RAILWAY workers will take the fight for the future of ticket offices to the doorstep of 10 Downing Street on Thursday 31 August –...
Tories drop debate and vote
THE GOVERNMENT has dropped the debate and vote on The Financial Services Bill which seeks to secure funds that can be released if there...
Bow Bus Strikers Walk Out!
BUS drivers from Bow bus garage walked out on strike from 5am yesterday over exhausting schedules, inadequate rest breaks, and systematic disregard for their...
JOHNSON FACING REBELLION – 60 Tories preparing to vote against Plan B
THE JOHNSON government faces an expected rebellion by about 60 Conservative MPs in tomorrow’s House of Commons votes to pass new ‘Plan B’ Covid-19...
EU-UK post-Brexit deal deadlock!
TALKS between the UK and EU broke up yesterday, as the two sides remained at loggerheads over a post-Brexit trade deal. Another deadline passed, but...
FBU condemns Tories for ignoring Grenfell findings
THE Fire Brigades Union has written to the government to demand it rethinks its decision to reject a key Grenfell Tower Inquiry recommendation, on...
Over 500,000 Public Sector Workers Strike
OVER half a million public sector workers from eight unions were on strike yesterday, fighting against the Tory government’s attack on their pay, conditions...
‘We’re striking to defend the NHS from the Tories!’ say RCN pickets
NURSES called for a general strike to defend the NHS on lively picket lines around the country yesterday. At University College Hospital near Euston in...
Met Students Confined To Rooms By Security Guards!
STUDENTS at Manchester Metropolitan University are confined to their rooms, with security officers keeping them inside. In a statement, Manchester Met said: ‘Our security teams...
Mass Whipp’s Cross Strike Rally
A MASS Rally of over 150 Serco strikers and supporters took place at Walthamstow’s Whipp’s Cross Hospital yesterday morning, as part of their two-week...
70 schools built with flammable insulation
MORE than 70 schools have been built using combustible insulation since the material was banned on high-rise apartment blocks after the Grenfell Tower disaster,...
Goldsmiths Lockout!
CALUM Bradley, Anti Casualisation Officer Goldsmiths University College Union (UCU), spoke to News Line from the picket line outside the university in New Cross...