Tube Strike began 12.00am
TWO 24-hour Tube strikes began at 12 midnight and on Thursday, with RMT members walking out over Transport for London’s (TfL) ‘continued refusal to...
VACCINE TO BE TESTED ON OVER 80s
NO DECISION has been made on how people under 50 should be offered a Covid vaccine, UK officials said yesterday. The UK’s Joint Committee on...
Johnson Calls A UK Summit – As Starmer Refuses To Resign!
TORY Prime Minister Boris Johnson has invited the SNP’s Nicola Sturgeon and the Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford, to a ‘Team UK’ summit. Johnson congratulated...
‘Pandora’s Box is about to be opened’ says BMA’s Banfield He adds: ‘This is...
DOCTORS are under attack financially, professionally and morally, and calling an election doesn’t get the government off the hook, British Medical Association leader Professor...
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...
US takeover of GP surgeries subject to Judicial Review
THE takeover of GP practices in London by US health insurance giant Centene Corporation will be subject of a judicial review in early 2022...
UCU calls global boycott of Leicester University
THE UNIVERSITY and College Union (UCU) yesterday announced a global boycott of the University of Leicester as the union hit the institution with the...
Go North West bus drivers strike against Fire & Rehire on lower pay
Scores of striking Go North West bus drivers massed outside the company’s Queens Road depot in Manchester yesterday, on the first day of their...
Tories unveil sweeping new police powers to ban protests
THE POLICE, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, which threatens the fundamental right to protest, was introduced to Parliament yesterday. The government published some of the...
Court of Appeal finds for Bell Hotel asylum seekers!
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...
54,000 Mothers A Year Lose Jobs
AHEAD of the House of Commons debate yesterday, the GMB Trade Union says an estimated 54,000 women lose their jobs every year due to...
Eu Must Represent Millions Who Are Opposed To Brexit Says Tusk
THE President of the European Council warned yesterday that anti-Brexit British voters who want to remain in the EU must not be ‘betrayed’. Treating Britain...
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...
Minister seeking to ban NEU teachers strike!
TORY education secretary Gillian Keegan is trying to get next week’s strike action by 100,000 members of the National Education Union (NEU) outlawed, claiming...
PEOPLE BEFORE PROFIT! – ‘bring us back in-house’ demand ISS strikers
‘BRING us back in-house – people before profit!’ demanded striking NHS support staff on their picket line outside the Maudsley Hospital in Denmark Hill,...
Nationalise Liberty Steel
THE GMB and Unite unions yesterday called for Liberty Steel to be nationalised after the Tory government rejected a request for £170m in financial...
‘HISTORIC WIN’ FOR WORKERS’ RIGHTS – tens of thousands entitled to Uber compensation
THE GMB union scored an ‘historic’ win on Friday when the Supreme Court passed judgement in the union’s landmark workers’ rights case against Uber. This...
Abolish pensioners’ bus passes and triple-lock pensions! – urges Stephens & Health Secretary Hunt
HEAD of NHS England, Simon Stephens, has angered millions of workers with his suggestions that pensioners’ free bus passes and their triple-lock pension arrangements...
‘CHILD Q’ STRIP-SEARCHING – new guidelines are to be introduced
MUCH tougher guidelines will be introduced in response to the ‘hugely distressing’ strip-searching of a black schoolgirl referred to as Child Q, the education...
Rcm Warns Of A Worsening Crisis
THE Royal College of Midwives is warning of a worsening maternity crisis as a senior midwife survey shows services at boiling point. ‘The maternity crisis...
Qesser Zuhrah Released On Bail
PALESTINE campaigner Qesser Zuhrah was released on bail yesterday from Westminster Magistrates Court after being arrested on Monday morning at 6.20am for posting on...
RCN Announces A New Strike Ballot
THE Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has announced a new strike ballot which will ask members employed by the NHS in England if they’re...
‘CALL THE AIRPORT OUT’ – demand Heathrow strikers
FOUR thousand Heathrow Airport Limited (HAL) workers are taking the fourth of four days strike action today against the company’s imposition of twenty-five per...
‘WE WILL NOT BACK DOWN!’ says Consultants Chair Vishal Sharma
THE government made the final offer and said “no more talks”. We are united, stronger together. We cannot and will not back down,’ Consultants...
Reeves declares war on Welfare State
LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves warned yesterday that she intends to launch the biggest ever attack on the working class, the youth and the Welfare...
GMB oppose Asda merger
THE GMB union, ‘the trade union for Asda workers’, has come out in complete opposition to the proposed Asda/Sainsbury’s merger as the Competition and...
We will leave EU ‘deal or no deal’ – Johnson
TORY PM Boris Johnson yesterday confirmed that if all attempts to get a deal with the EU fail then he is prepared leave the...
‘Get ready for our strike ballot result’ – RCN nurses issue strong warning
‘WE DON’T forget that our pay was cut by you,’ 300,000 nurses who are currently balloting for strike action told the newly appointed Tory...
Postal Workers Call To ‘Bring Down Tories’
ROYAL MAIL Communication Workers Union (CWU) postal workers were in a determined mood during their latest pay strike yesterday. At Jubilee Mail Centre in Hounslow,...
BBC spends £38m to enforce collection – Pensioners refusing to pay licence fee targeted
THE BBC has threatened pensioners with bailiffs if they don’t pay the licence fee, after spending £38m on 800 staff to enforce collection. Bailiffs will...
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 –...
Chancellor ignores the crisis!
TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak said yesterday that the NHS will get ‘whatever resources it needs’ to cope with a coronavirus epidemic. He alleged to the...
Food Inflation – Highest For Fourteen Years!
SOARING milk, cheese and egg costs have pushed food inflation to its highest level for 14 years, with millions of UK families heading into...
NHS ‘more than 10,000 doctors needed!’
THE latest NHS workforce data is ‘not something the government should be proud of’, says the BMA. Responding to the latest NHS workforce data BMA...
3 Years Of Guards Strikes
HUNDREDS of train workers rallied in Euston yesterday to mark three years of the guards strike, the longest in modern history, which has begun...
Sweeping emergency powers are unveiled! – Police given powers to arrest suspected corona...
NEW emergency powers were outlined yesterday by the Tories as they published the Emergency Coronavirus Bill. The sweeping new powers which will last as...
‘Abysmal response’ to corona – experts warn antibody tests are ‘invalid’
EXPERTS have heavily criticised the Tories’ ‘ad hoc system’ for coronavirus tracking, testing and contact tracing, stating that the government’s ‘abysmal response’ means that...
Corbyn will not have the whip restored! – now not officially a Labour MP
FORMER Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will not have the party’s whip restored, his successor as Labour Party leader, Sir Keir Starmer has announced. The shock...
‘IF THERE IS NO LEGISLATION ON MONDAY – SEIZE SHIPS ON TUESDAY’ – John...
OVER 500 trade unionists gathered outside the RMT headquarters on the waterfront in Dover, yesterday with red RMT flags and union banners after 800...
70,000 Nurses Shortfall In Next 5 Years
A LEAKED copy of the Tory government report into the NHS staffing crisis reveals that there is set to be a shortfall of nearly...
Move towards national teachers strike
THE NATIONAL Executive of the NEU (National Education Union) is moving to formal ballots for strike action over pay and funding. The formal ballots of...
Suspend inquiry unless panellist immediately replaced say Grenfell campaigners
THE SECOND phase of the inquiry into the Grenfell Tower Fire began yesterday with families and friends of the 72 men, women and children...
‘We need a general strike’ – the Tories have to go!
‘WE NEED collective action and a general strike. This Tory government has to go. It’s spent the last ten years looking after the bosses...
Liverpool Dockers Begin 2-Week Strike!
FIVE-HUNDRED dock workers employed by the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company (MDHC) at the Port of Liverpool began a two-week strike last night. Unite regional...
250,000 workers & youth march for Palestine!
MORE than 250,000 workers, students and youth marched for Palestine through central London on Saturday. The march assembled outside BBC Broadcasting House in Portland Place...