Over 40 lecturers and staff picket Queen Mary’s University
A STRONG contingent of over forty lecturers and staff picketed both gates of Queen Mary’s (QM) University in east London on the second day...
Rail Fares Rise – A 2.7% Hit
MILLIONS of rail passengers will have to pay an average of 2.7% more for tickets from 2nd January, in a fare rise announced last...
10 days of strike action at St Thomas’ Hospital!
YESTERDAY, marked the first of 10 days of strike action by security staff at St Thomas’ hospital by Westminster Bridge in central London. Some of...
Tory borrowing breaks all records
GOVERNMENT borrowing broke all records soaring to historic heights in November, figures released yesterday show. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said borrowing hit £31.6bn...
Tories Forced Back On Ealing & Charing Cross NHS Cuts
The TORY government has been forced to back down over its hated ‘Shaping a Healthier Future’ (SaHF) NHS cuts and closure programme in north...
FLYBE BUST! Tories to blame – BALPA
‘FLYBE staff feel disgusted at this betrayal and these broken promises,’ pilots union BALPA General Secretary Brian Strutton said yesterday as the news broke...
PCS Second Week Of Strike Action!
THERE was a lively picket of PCS union members outside the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology office in Whitehall yesterday morning, on their...
Tories ‘blithely sailing NHS towards an iceberg!’
THE TORIES are ‘blithely sailing towards an iceberg’ with their plans for the NHS, the President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM),...
Massive ASLEF vote for strike action over pay!
ASLEF train drivers’ trade union members have voted overwhelmingly for more strike action, having not had a pay rise for five years. Mick Whelan, general...
‘All bus workers must strike together’ – Renationalise now! – demands Harrow picket
THERE was a strong picket line at Harrow bus garage yesterday morning despite the pouring rain. London Sovereign drivers were on their third day of...
‘BRUTAL’ WORKING CONDITIONS AT AMAZON RUGELEY!
THE GMB is presenting a giant Valentine’s card to the Amazon warehouse in Rugeley in the Midlands today to highlight the ‘brutal’ working conditions. Workers...
Ventilator Rationing!
VENTILATORS are to be rationed, using tactics employed on the battlefield, where army medics choose who to treat and who to leave to bleed...
Plan For Mayors To Run NHS Hospitals!
MINISTERS are drawing up plans to give mayors significant new powers over hospitals and schools as part of a new wave of devolution that...
Social housing landlords deny homeless access to properties
HOMELESS people are being routinely ‘screened out’ and denied access to social housing by social landlords because they are deemed ‘too poor or vulnerable...
CWU BT Group to ballot all members for action!
THE Telecoms & Financial Services Conference voted yesterday to serve legal notice to BT Group of the union’s intention to ballot all appropriate members...
400 Exxonmobil workers sacked and locked out!
MORE than 400 workers were sacked and locked out of the Exxonmobil petrochemical site in Fife, Scotland yesterday, as the company announced a plan...
A&Es won’t cope this winter! – warn 87% of clinicians
NINE out of ten UK A&E clinicians are not confident that their departments will cope this winter. Shockingly, in a survey by The Royal College...
JOHNSON STAYS AWAY FROM COMMONS – no Labour Party call for his resignation
LABOUR refused to demand Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s resignation yesterday, following the revelation that he held a party in his Downing Street garden...
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...
Tories knew NHS couldn’t cope with pandemic
THE TORY government hid the outcome of an exercise it conducted on how the NHS would cope with a pandemic because it considered the...
‘Significant Victory’ For Junior Doctors!
THE BMA doctors’ union has hailed the Court of Appeal ruling on rest breaks as ‘a significant victory for junior doctors’. Commenting on the Court...
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...
Tories withdraw infection control fund today!
TODAY, the Tory government withdraws the infection control fund. This was support for those working in care to help them when they fall sick. Unison...
‘OUR FAMILY CANNOT WAIT ANY LONGER!’ says Kaba family six months after police killing
‘OUR FAMILY cannot wait any longer, ’ said the family of Chris Kaba yesterday, the six-months anniversary of the 24-year-old black man’s fatal shooting...
Tories are driven back over schools opening!
THE PLAN for all primary school years in England to go back to school before the end of term has been dropped by the...
Food prices soar 80% in a year
WHILE Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures claimed yesterday that ‘real pay’ has fallen by just 2.3% in the last three months, a Which?...
‘LAST FRIDAY IT WAS LIKE WAR ON THE STREETS OF PARIS’ Yellow vests tell...
TWO coachloads of French ‘Gilet Jaunes’ (Yellow Vests) joined the Committee to Defend Julian Assange ‘Bastille Day’ protest outside Belmarsh prison in south east...
TUC must act to free Assange says father
JOHN SHIPTON yesterday called for the TUC to take up the fight for the release of his son, Julian Assange, and prevent his extradition...
‘Living standards being hammered’– says CWU leader Dave Ward
THE biggest strike of the summer so far continues today, as 115,000 postal workers fight for a ‘dignified, proper pay rise’. Royal Mail Group members...
Smash the Tory Anti-Strike Bill!
THE TUC warned yesterday that the right to strike of 1-in-5 workers in Britain is at risk because of the Tory government’s Strikes (Minimum...
Kwarteng’s mini budget is a major attack on the working class
CHANCELLOR Kwasi Kwarteng yesterday unveiled his mini-budget that will see the working class and the poor robbed, in order to further enrich the UK...
‘Where will the staff come from?’ – BMA demands answers over Nightingale facilities
THE BMA (British Medical Asociation) has asked the government for more clarity on staffing of new Nightingale facilities. Commenting on the planned new Nightingale facilities...
Starmer Trashes Labour Renationalisation Policy
LABOUR leader Sir Keir Starmer and Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves trashed the party’s renationalisation policy yesterday. In a speech in Liverpool, with a back-drop bedecked...
Unite Claims Rolls Royce Jobs Victory!
THE long-running campaign to secure the future of the historic Rolls-Royce factory of Barnoldswick in Lancashire has finally ended. Following a ballot the workers at...
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...
CUT FARES NOT STAFF! – demand protesters outside stations across UK
PASSENGERS protesting against rail fare increases of 3.5 per cent, many of whom were also demanding the urgent renationalisation of the railways, were joined...
EXTRADITION HALTED! ‘A victory for Julian’ – Stella Moris addresses Assange supporters outside Old...
‘TODAY is a victory for Julian! Today’s victory is the first step towards justice in this case,’ Stella Moris, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s fiancee...
Rail Delivery Group RMT members to strike June 2
RMT members working for the 14 train companies in the national rail dispute will walk out on Friday June 2. The union found the Rail...
Abusive MI5 agent’s identity cannot be revealed says judge
THE BBC is to be prevented from naming a man it says exploited his status as an MI5 agent to abuse a partner and...
UK lawyers for Israel demand to shut down Palestinian camp
UK Lawyers for Israel have written to Wandsworth Labour council’s interim chief executive to demand the closure of the Community Camp 4 Palestine (CC4Pal)...
PROSECUTE P&O FERRIES – RMT condemns Tories for refusal to act
SEAFARERS union RMT has written to the Secretary of State for Transport, Grant Shapps, to demand a meeting to discuss the government’s failure to...
1,000 NEWLY QUALIFIED GPs ARE FACING DEPORTATION!
‘Doctors’ Association UK (DAUK) is utterly appalled that up to 1,000 newly qualified GPs face deportation despite having completed their GP training in the...
‘Make Your Mark On History’ By Voting For Strike Action!
MORE than 300,000 members are receiving ballot papers in the post from yesterday launching the RCN’s biggest strike ballot in its 106-year history. You can...
Starmer’s Labour Brings Forward Anti-Working Class King’s Speech
THE STARMER Labour government brought forward an anti-working class King’s Speech in Parliament yesterday morning. It announced 40 pieces of legislation, starting with a Budget...
Trump Pushes For UK Regime Change
NIGEL Farage should be involved in the government’s Brexit negotiations and the UK should be prepared to leave the EU with no deal, Donald...