Escalate the action – bus workers call for National Strike now!
‘ESCALATE the action – national strike now!’ bus workers told News Line yesterday on the first day of another two days of strike action...
Debt will bring ‘nasty surprises!’ – Chancellor Sunak gets a warning
WITH MILLIONS of new Universal Credit claimants expected when the Tory ‘job retention’, or ‘furlough’, scheme ends over the next three months, the government...
TORY CRISIS DEEPENS AS SUNAK SET TO BORROW £598bn MORE
CHANCELLOR Sunak began his Budget speech by drawing attention to the £280 billion already spent on Covid-19 rescue measures saying, ‘I said I would...
Croydon NHS demands Covid sick pay!
WORKERS at Croydon Hospital are staging a protest on January 31st to demand Covid sick pay. Porters and cleaners at the south London hospital are...
Supreme Court rejects Julian Assange extradition appeal!
THE UK Supreme Court yesterday rejected WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s appeal of the decision to extradite him to the US, where the WikiLeaks co-founder...
Junior Doctors – nine more strike dates
JUNIOR Doctors are to strike for three days before Christmas and six early in the New Year following five weeks of fruitless talks between...
Sunak halved school rebuilding budget!
TORY Prime Minister Rishi Sunak cut the schools repair budget in half in 2021 when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer, it emerged yesterday...
COVID IS BEING USED TO SACK TENS OF THOUSANDS says RMT leader Mick Lynch
RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch has accused the Johnson government and the privately-run train operating companies of ‘using Covid as a smokescreen’ to rip...
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...
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...
NHS Is Reeling As Staff Sickness Grows
THE NHS is reeling under the weight of staff absences, with the Royal College of Emergency Medicine warning that up to a quarter of...
Workers pressure mounting but the TUC still won’t call a general strike!!
WORKERS pressure is mounting on the TUC to call a general strike to bring down the Tories at its Annual Congress in Brighton next...
TORY PARTY ‘IN THE GRIP OF THE DUP AND THE ERG’ – 3...
THREE Tory MPs resigned yesterday to join the independent pro-EU group, set up by seven former Labour MPs who have now been joined by...
Junior Doctors and Consultants begin 3 days of strike action
JUNIOR Doctors and Consultants begin three days of joint strike action at 7am this morning, determined to defend the NHS and defeat the Tory...
7.4 million British families in poverty
TWO-THIRDS of low income families struggle to buy essentials such as clothes, heating and food, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) warned yesterday. The anti-poverty charity...
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....
Scunthorpe scaffolders step up strike
SCUNTHORPE scaffolders have stepped up strike action at a British Steel site. The British Steel plant in Scunthorpe faces further disruption this month as scaffolders...
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...
Demonstrate April 1 15% for all NHS staff
PEOPLE across the country are being asked to put colourful posters in their windows in support of a proper NHS pay rise, in a...
Vote YES for strike action! – Unite launches ballot of 100,000 NHS members
UNITE launched a strike ballot of its 100,000 NHS members outside St Thomas’s Hospital, opposite Parliament, in central London yesterday morning. Onay Kasab, Lead Officer...
National Dock Strike! Warns Unite
UNITE is warning that the refusal of the nation’s port employers to make fair pay offers to their workers could result in a national dock...
ANOTHER LOCKDOWN IS POSSIBLE! – says Professor Peter Horby
IN A statement to Parliament today Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to announce a new three-tier lockdown system where each region in...
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)...
‘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...
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...
NATIONAL RAIL STRIKE LOOMS – TSSA warns action over Tory job cuts
THE TSSA union warned yesterday: ‘A national rail strike in 2022 is very much on the cards’ as the Tory government seeks to cut...
No to two-tier Maternity! – demand Charter Schools strikers
‘NO TO TWO-TIER Maternity!’ declare striking teachers at the Charter Schools Multi-Academy Trust in Southwark, south-east London, who begin a further three-day strike this...
London Met Strike Action
LONDON Metropolitan University lecturers came out on strike yesterday, Wednesday 15th April, having warned the university they would do so, if the management refused to...
Capital City lecturers strike
STRIKING Capital City College Group (CCCG) lecturers rallied outside the CEO’s office in Victoria yesterday on the second day of their eight-day strike. The strikers...
‘This is a fight we have to win’ says UCU
IMPERIAL College staff were boosted on their picket line yesterday morning by the support of an engineering student and a vintage bus. The nationwide strike...
No Xmas Wages For 600 Workers
THE collapse of construction firm Clugston has halted work on Newcastle University’s new £39m extension and £25m sports centre. Clugston, which employs more than 600...
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...
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...
‘Education needs more money NOW!’ – insists Courtney as 300,000 teachers strike today
HUNDREDS of thousands of members of the National Education Union (NEU) are on strike in 23,400 schools throughout England and Wales today and next...
Labour Is Ready To Abstain Once Again – In The Coming Brexit Vote
LABOUR leaders refused to confirm whether they would vote in favour of a Brexit trade deal between the UK and the EU or abstain...
‘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...
PM Johnson reaches out to Labour!
‘WE WILL be reaching out to build the biggest possible consensus,’ Tory PM Johnson said yesterday morning, ‘across business, across industry, across all parts...
Royal Mail 97% YES for strike
OVER 97% of members of the CWU (Communication Workers Union) working for Royal Mail, voted ‘YES’ for strike action, it was announced yesterday. Hundreds of...
‘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...
Strikes will grind Heathrow to a halt
WORKERS at Heathrow Airport Ltd (HAL) are launching three 24-hour strikes over plans to fire and rehire its 4,000 workers on vastly reduced pay...
Postal Workers Strike Hardening Up
THERE was a hardened determination on the striking postal workers picket lines yesterday morning, as Communication Workers Union (CWU) members defiantly rebutted the Royal...
Myanmar military ‘extrajudicial killings’
A PROTEST of over a hundred Burmese outside the Myanmar embassy in Mayfair, London yesterday demanded the release of their leaders arrested during the...
BMA Demonstrates At Tory Party Conference
THOUSANDS of NHS workers and many other trade unionists marched to the Tory Party conference yesterday morning to deliver their notice to the Tories...
UK-US CRISIS – Washington to challenge Chinese investment in UK
A CLAUSE in the newly signed UK-US trade agreement has provoked fierce criticism after it was revealed that Washington will be granted powers to...
Criminal Police Officers To Face Automatic Sackings!
POLICE officers guilty of gross misconduct in England and Wales will face automatic sackings, the government has announced. The change follows high-profile cases of officers...