Hundreds of thousands denied a pay rise
CHANCELLOR Rishi Sunak was accused yesterday by the Unite union of having ‘a selective memory’ when it comes to public sector pay, rewarding some...
Labour PM reveals his class war Budget will cause ‘pain’!
LABOUR Prime Minister Keir Starmer will focus on growth and wealth creation, he told selected guests and media in the Downing Street rose garden...
RCN to hand 160,000-strong petition into Downing Street! – demanding 12.5% pay rise now
THE ROYAL College of Nursing is taking the nurses pay claim campaign to the heart of government as its ballot opens on industrial action...
43% of doctors have absolutely no eye protection! – Nurses have no face masks!
NURSES are forced to ‘hold their breath’ because of inadequate face masks during dangerous operations, while doctors have absolutely no eye protection, it was...
Another huge show of strength! – UCU strike rally, King’s Cross 1.00pm today
‘Vice chancellors are about to witness another huge show of strength,’ UCU (University and College Union) General Secretary Jo Grady said yesterday, speaking ahead...
Labour Calls For An Emergency Budget!
LABOUR is calling for an emergency budget to bring forward measures to tackle the cost of living crisis as inflation soars to a 30-year...
Unite Leader Graham Condemns Barclay For A ‘Blatant Lie!’
STRIKING ambulance workers and their union leaders responded with fury at Tory Health Secretary Barclay’s article in yesterday’s Daily Telegraph newspaper, in which he...
Schoolchildren to be served smaller portions!
SCHOOL caterers will have to serve children smaller portions or use cheaper ingredients, they were warned yesterday. Andrew Selley, boss of Bidfood, one of the...
Chronically ill thrown off benefits – because GPs ‘misled’ by DWP
PATIENTS suffering from serious and chronic illnesses have been driven to the brink of homlessness after being declared ‘fit-for-work’ and thrown off their benefits....
Bid To Prevent EU Withdrawal Voting Fails!
SCOTLAND’S highest civil court on Friday dismissed a legal bid to stop the UK government from seeking to pass its proposed EU withdrawal agreement...
PM’s top advisor Cummings refuses to quit
‘I KNOW that the British people hate the idea of unfairness. People like me who make the rules should be accountable for their actions,’...
Support grows for Sweeney!
WRP parliamentary candidate Frank Sweeney’s campaign team were out meeting workers and youth at Bruce Grove in Tottenham yesterday. They met Ibrahim who told News...
‘Metropolitan police recruiting criminals’ – concludes police watchdog
THE METROPOLITAN Police’s approach to tackling corruption within its ranks is ‘fundamentally flawed,’ an inspection by the police watchdog published yesterday concluded. It found the...
People have come out against the fascists and the racists!
‘REFUGEES are welcome here!’ chanted thousands of workers, students and youth as they joined hundreds of anti-racism demonstrations in towns and cities across the...
DOCTORS ‘FEEL LIKE CANNON FODDER’ says Chair of Doctors’ Association UK
Doctors ‘feel like lambs to the slaughter and cannon fodder’, said the chair of the Doctors’ Association UK yesterday morning, demanding that frontline NHS...
Reintroduce Covid restrictions now! NHS Confederation warns of looming winter crisis
COVID restrictions must immediately be reintroduced if England is to avoid ‘stumbling into a winter crisis,’ health leaders have warned. The NHS Confederation said a...
50,000 RMT members take strike action!
OVER 50,000 RMT members across Network Rail, London Overground, London Underground and other 14 train operating companies will walk out on strike this week,...
Harland & Wolff occupied!
SHIPBUILDERS have occupied the Harland & Wolff site in Belfast, closing the gates and refusing to leave, with their unions GMB and Unite demanding...
Parents & children lobby Downing St
OVER 500 parents and children held an angry protest outside Downing Street demanding an increase in funding for children with special educational needs and...
EXPROPRIATE P&O – Shapps fails to stand up to the bandits
MICK LYNCH, RMT General Secretary said yesterday ‘Despite all the bluster, Grant Shapps has failed to grasp the opportunity to adequately stand up to...
TUC must call a General Strike! – the message from CWU picket lines
THE TUC must call a general strike to bring down the Tories and kick them out now!' was the message from the CWU picket...
Grenfell–‘Companies Killed 72 People!’
THE COMPANIES that carried out the Grenfell Tower refurbishment killed 72 people ‘just as surely as if they had taken careful aim with a...
‘INFLATION CAUSING HUGE DISTRESS!’ – no government can solve every problem – says Sunak
‘HIGH inflation is causing acute distress to the people of this country,’ Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak admitted yesterday. Making a statement to MPs in the...
Nationalise P&O says RMT
ON THE day the owners in Dubai are set to pay hundreds of millions in dividends, RMT has called for P&O Ferries to be...
NO PAY RISE IN 5 YEARS! – ASLEF strike expands
ROLLING strike action and a national overtime ban by ASLEF members expands today, with train drivers employed by Northern and TransPennine Express rail privateers...
Angry Nurses To Escalate Strikes!
NURSES’ strike action will escalate and spread across the UK in the new year, after RCN Scotland members overwhelmingly voted to reject the Scottish...
Brexit: ‘There Is Pathway To Deal’
THERE are ‘many issues’ still to be resolved before a Brexit agreement can be reached, Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said, as talks continued yesterday. He...
‘WE’RE ON LESS THAN MINIMUM WAGE’ – barristers tell MPs
BARRISTERS lobbied parliament yesterday and raised with MPs the demand of an urgent injection of funds into Legal Aid. Lucie Wibberley, the Criminal Bar Association...
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...
Nottingham City goes bust while HSBC makes £24bn!
THE government has appointed commissioners to help run Nottingham City Council after the authority declared itself effectively bankrupt. The Labour-run authority issued a section 114...
RMT will fight any new anti-union legislation
RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch spoke out defiantly yesterday in response to Tory strike breaking threats to pass laws to ‘ensure minimum staffing levels...
Tory plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda illegal!
A COURT RULING that the UK government’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is unlawful has been welcomed by the charity that challenged...
Ryanair Pilots Down Tools!
RYANAIR pilots have downed tools today causing huge cost to the company after Ryanair managers again refused to enter talks to end the long...
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...
Farmers Descend On Parliament!
HUNDREDS of farmers descended on Parliament on their tractors yesterday, demanding ‘Save Family Farming!’ Having driven to the capital from as far afield as Exmoor,...
Bandit capitalism goes bust
THE UNITE trade union is demanding an urgent meeting with Ernst & Young, Interserve’s administrators, after Friday’s announcement that the company is being forced...
Cases of police sexual abuse are rising! – Warns Independent Office for Police Conduct...
CASES of police abusing their role for sexual gain have risen sharply, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) warned yesterday, revealing the fact...
‘We are asking for the pay that we lost to be returned to us!’...
ANGRY NHS workers on strike outside Barnsley hospital in South Yorkshire spoke to News Line yesterday. Ellen Newberry, deputy chair of Junior Doctors Committee (BMA),...
College strikes
‘WE ARE taking action as part of national co-ordinated action for a pay rise of at least 5%,' Julia Roberts, Lambeth University and College...
Assange High Court decision today!
THE HIGH Court is going to announce its decision on whether Julian Assange is going to be allowed to appeal against his extradition to...
No beds! Intensive Care Units at 100% capacity!
ONE in eight NHS trusts in England did not have a single spare intensive care bed last week, NHS England figures published yesterday revealed. 18...
Rees-Mogg prepares to eat his Brexit words for deal
LEADER of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg indicated yesterday that Tory PM Boris Johnson is preparing to bring back to Parliament this Saturday...
‘We don’t trust you, and we will fight against you!’ – Lindsey oil refinery...
‘WE say to the UK government today we will not allow you to do this, we do not trust you and we will fight...
Labour is hit for six in Hartlepool
STARMER’S LABOUR Party has been hit for six in the Hartlepool by-election, with a Tory MP elected for the first time in the current...
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...