Cotton Goes – Savage Fire Cuts In Surrey
LONDON Fire Brigade Chief Dany Cotton is to leave the service four months early. Cotton, 50, previously announced she was standing down from the London...
Long A&E waits led to 23,000 deaths last year!
LONG A&E waiting times contributed to some 23,000 ‘excess patient deaths’ last year, the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) said yesterday. In 2022, 1.66...
Nationwide university pensions battle!
OVER 50,000 university staff at 69 universities are currently balloting for a nationwide strike over an attack on their pensions – which means they...
NHS workers immigration status victory – Home Office forced to U-turn yesterday morning!
THE TORIES, under fire from all sides have had to make a U-turn on their policy over the immigration status of NHS workers. Until yesterday...
UK forced to appoint European Commissioner!
PM JOHNSON’S ‘do or die’ pledge is truly dead, as the EU has insisted as a condition of their ‘flextension’ that the UK will...
Teachers 98% strike vote! – Nationwide strikes on 27th April & 2nd May
TEACHERS have voted by a massive 98% in favour of strike action to defeat the Tories’ miserable 4.3% pay offer. Commenting on the ballot result...
Watson must quit now! demands Diane Abbott
Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott has retweeted a call for Labour Party deputy leader Tom Watson to quit after he publicly attacked the party’s...
70,000 workers to be balloted over 1.75%! – Unite, Unison & GMB demand 10%...
SEVENTY thousand council workers are to be balloted in every borough in England and Wales in preparation for a strike action against a ‘derisory’...
‘Do not resuscitate’ care homes scandal – Professor Leary demands investigation
A STARTLING new report published by the Queen’s Nursing Institute (QNI) states that during the peak of the pandemic people in care homes were...
Another 10,000 to be driven onto UC – After Rudd drives through legislation with...
AS OF TODAY, ten thousand people on the old benefits system will be forced onto Universal Credit (UC) in a ‘pilot study’ in Harrogate,...
Reinstate All P&O Staff – Demands Haigh
‘WE MUST send a clear message that rogue employers cannot get away with trampling over the laws of this country, it is time to...
Nationalise P&O now!
‘P&O and their paymasters in Dubai are no longer capable of running a safe service and should be stripped of the licence to operate...
DOCTORS TAKE PENSIONS ACTION!–following the lead of the firefighters
AT least a dozen doctors are to take legal action against the government because they believe they were forced to join a pension scheme...
Renationalise Thomas Cook!
NINE thousand Thomas Cook workers lost their jobs yesterday with a further 20,000 threatened across Europe as the company, founded in 1841, went bust....
Unite calls May Day NHS strike NHS – St Thomas’ & Yorks Ambulance to...
LONDON'S Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Trust and Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust will be the first to walk out in new wave of...
Supreme Court rules proroguing ‘unlawful’
THE SUPREME Court yesterday openly sided with a Parliament full of Remainers condemning the proroguing of Parliament by Tory PM Boris Johnson as completely...
BMA’s Nagpaul opposes PM’s plan to ease the ‘lockdown!’
‘THE Government has five tests it has said must be met to ease lockdown – the first of which is “making sure the NHS...
Heathrow workers support WRP’s Zulkifal
HEATHROW Airport workers signed up to support the campaign to elect Hassan Zulkifal, WRP Ealing Southall general election candidate, yesterday. Unite member Ram Sheemar said:...
EU tightens the screw! – Johnson dumps ‘do or die’
EU ambassadors yesterday agreed to delay Brexit, but will not make a decision on a new deadline date until next Monday, just three days...
SNP ready for Corbyn-led interim National Government
THE SCOTTISH Nationalists have reached out to Labour to form a National Government with the sole purpose of remaining in the European Union. Yesterday, chief...
Tories threaten councils – to try to force reopening of schools
THE TORY government has launched a three-pronged attack on parents, teachers and councils in a bid to force schools to open – despite all...
36,876 paid less than minimum wage in Scotland!
NEARLY 37,000 people in Scotland were paid less than the statutory minimum wage last year, while employers across the UK owe workers an average...
Shrewsbury 24 victory! Convictions overturned
YESTERDAY’S decision by the Court of Appeal to overturn the convictions of the Shrewsbury Pickets after a nearly 50-year campaign has been hailed as...
Sixth Forms strike today across UK
TWENTY five Sixth Form Colleges take their second day of strike action today against savage cuts to pay, funding, courses and staff. The strikers, who...
Lib Dems Vote For Ananti-Brexit Coup!
THE LIBDEMS voted for an anti-Brexit coup at their conference in Bournemouth yesterday, pledging to revoke Article 50, reversing their previous policy of campaigning...
Felixstowe & Merseyside dockers striking this month!
DOCKERS at Britain’s two major ports – Merseyside and Felixstowe – are to strike together at the end of this month and the beginning...
‘ZERO CHANCE OF TRANSPORT DEAL’ – RMT warns Johnson government
RMT WARNS there is zero chance of agreement to government plans to increase transport services on 11th May in the current climate, as a...
Balham PCS Strike Ballot Is Called!
STAFF at Balham benefit centre are being balloted for strike action having been told that their office is due to close on 31 December. This...
Johnson surrenders – kneels before ‘Surrender Act’
A SCOTTISH judge was to be asked yesterday to consider whether Boris Johnson could be jailed if he takes the UK out of the...
3 Years After Grenfell Fire!
'IT'S been an absolute outrage that three years later and the Grenfell families still have no justice, and homes are still unsafe,’ Joe Delaney,...
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...
‘One solution Revolution!’ says 40,000 crowd outside US embassy
‘ONE SOLUTION – Revolution’ rang out through the 40,000-strong crowd outside the US embassy in Vauxhall, south-west London yesterday as a mass demonstration broke...
35,000 gather at Marble Arch – BLACK LIVES MATTER!
35,000 WORKERS and youth rallied yesterday at Marble Arch, Speakers Corner, to insist that ‘Black Lives Matter’ and give their 100% support to the...
Unite and GMB surrender to BA and mass sackings!
BOTH the Unite and GMB trade unions have given up the fight to halt the mass sackings organised by British Airways, centring on Heathrow...
LOTHIAN PAYING £1.4m A MONTH FOR HOSPITAL IT CANNOT USE!
A health board is paying over a million pounds a month to a private consortium for a hospital it cannot use. The new children’s hospital...
‘Conspiracy to rape’ – Victims of spy cops indict the state
WOMEN who found out their partners were undercover police spies insisted yesterday that they are the ‘victims of a conspiracy to rape’ by the...
Exercise Cygnus exposed! Tories were asked to simulate turning off all UK ventilators
A CROSS Party ‘pandemic simulation’ carried out just three years before Covid-19 struck ‘played-out’ a scenario in which the health minister was asked to...
80% of flammable towers have still not been reclad
‘STILL almost 8 in 10 blocks with Grenfell type cladding have not had it replaced with over half of those with no work started...
NISSAN WILL SACK 12,500! Sunderland’s future hangs in the balance!
NISSAN is to cut 12,500 jobs worldwide as it reduces its production capacity and the number of models it produces by 10% by the...
TUC outlines conditions for a safer reopening of schools!
THE TUC on Friday published a joint statement that was sent yesterday evening to the Secretary of State for Education, on behalf of unions...
‘We will balance the books’ Tory Chancellor indicates tax hikes & cuts to come
YESTERDAY, Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak, speaking at the Tory Party conference, assured the party that his main objective is to get the debt under...
5,500 petrol stations run dry! Bad pay & conditions force truckers to quit!
THE SPIRALLING cost of energy, combined with a lorry driver shortage and now panic buying, has resulted in 5,500 petrol stations across the country...
Hostile Environment – Youth targeted & charged £2,033 every 30 months
THE TORIES’ Hostile Environment is alive and kicking with a new extortionate fee of £2,033 charged every 30 months, targeting people whose immigration status...
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...
Nationalise Jaguar Land Rover – to save workers’ rights and jobs
THERE HAS been confirmation that Jaguar Land Rover will build a new all-electric model at its Castle Bromwich plant. Unite said yesterday that the announcement...