13 schools with RAAC had funding to rebuild – ruled out by Tories!
At least 13 schools confirmed to have reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) had funding to rebuild approved under a Labour scheme which was later...
Vote for the deal or we leave with no deal – Johnson tells MPs
THE DEBATE on the European Union Withdrawal Agreement Bill began yesterday with Tory PM Johnson confirming that if it is not voted through, the...
‘MAKE CREDIBLE OFFER’ – Junior doctors tell Health Secretary Barclay
JUNIOR doctors in England have told the Health Secretary, Steve Barclay, that a credible offer – showing he is serious about pay restoration and...
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...
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...
NI Nursing Strike Actions Continue
THE DIRECTOR of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) says she has not had enough reassurance about safe staffing to propose an end to...
STOP UNIVERSAL CREDIT CUT! – Labour insists maintain £20 uplift
‘REDUCING Universal Credit and Working Tax Credit would be fundamentally the wrong decision. It would be a profound mistake and put millions of families...
‘Our NHS is under siege!’
THERE was a lively and enthusiastic picket of over 50 striking NHS workers at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel east London, yesterday morning. Speaking...
Students join striking university staff – Day one of 3-day strike at 58 unis
AS PART of the nationwide three-day strike to combat pay and pension cuts to university staff, a team of over 40 activists from unions...
Birmingham bin men mark one year with mass protest
A LIVELY picket of 200 bin men, came out in support of the bin strikers in Birmingham yesterday morning, marking one year of the...
TUC leaders refuse to call for resignation of Tory government!
TRADE union leaders were united yesterday in their refusal to call for the resignation of the crisis-ridden Tory government. TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady said:...
Tories won’t address NHS pay and workforce crisis!
CLEARLY the Tory government is determined NOT to address the drastic workforce and pay crisis in the NHS which is at the centre of...
Tories Setting NHS Up For Worst ‘Winter Crisis’ Ever
THE BRITISH Medical Association (BMA) has warned that the Tory government is setting the NHS up for the its worst ‘winter crisis’ ever. Last Friday,...
HEATHROW CLEANERS FEAR FOR THEIR JOBS says the Unite trade union
LOW PAID cleaners, employed by multi-million pound outsourcing company Mitie at Heathrow Airport, have been left fearing for their jobs after the company reneged...
‘We are fighting for the survival of Brunel University’ say UCU strikers
‘WE ARE STRONG, united and determined to win,’ and ‘We are fighting for the survival of Brunel University,’ University and College Union (UCU) strikers declared...
US-UK Are Routed In Kabul – ‘A Strategic Disaster’ – Liam Fox
THE Taliban took control of Afghanistan yesterday, with the collapsing NATO-backed government shrieking in its fear that they are entering the capital, Kabul, ‘from...
‘UK at forefront of support for Ukraine!’ – Truss launches new alliance between UK,...
‘I AM HERE today to show the United Kingdom’s steadfast support for the Ukraine,’ Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said yesterday at a joint press...
Fury over US health firms takeover of GP practices Doctors in Unite protest tomorrow
A PROTEST against GP practices being taken over by US health insurance giant Centene Corporation – branded as ‘the accelerating privatisation of the NHS...
Starmer poised to clash with unions over pay rise demands
LABOUR PM Keir Starmer is poised for a clash with the unions after downplaying the likelihood of real-terms pay rises for public sector workers...
‘We need a general strike!’ – strong call from picketing nurses
THE TORY government issued a calculated insult to thousands of striking nurses yesterday as the Royal College of Nursing held national strike action for...
Child benefit savage cuts
STRUGGLING families are losing out on hundreds of pounds a year as a result of changes to child benefit over the past decade, said...
1,800 will spend Christmas in an immigration detention centre!
UK GOVERNMENT figures show that over 1,800 people in Britain will spend the Christmas holiday incarcerated in immigration detention centres, prompting calls to end...
NHS Backlog Plans Delayed
A LAST minute intervention in Whitehall delayed plans to tackle the backlog of patients on hospital waiting lists in England. Details of the NHS England...
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...
‘The entire labour movement must fully support the RMT’
THE RMT issued the following statement on the forthcoming rail and Tube strikes yesterday. ‘In the past few weeks, discussions have been taking place at...
Rolls Royce jobs massacre! – Unite calls for National Recovery Council with Tories
THE UNITE trade union has responded to the news that Rolls Royce is to cut 9,000 jobs globally, 3,375 of them in the UK,...
British Gas to sack its entire workforce
BRITISH Gas is to sack its entire 10,000-strong workforce today, in a vicious attack which has been met with strike action over months by...
School Youth Climate Change Demo
HUNDREDS of school youth staged a strike for climate change in Parliament Square yesterday. Lana Daly came with friends from west London and said: ‘The...
‘FREE ASSANGE’ – demands demo outside Westminster Magistrates Court hearing yesterday
‘FREE Julian Assange!’ demanded a mass protest outside Westminster Magistrates’ Court yesterday morning while inside, the head of WikiLeaks won the right for extra...
‘HANDS OFF OUR JOBS, WAGES AND PENSIONS’ – Lecturers warn the Tory Lib-Dems
On the eve of today’s budget, striking lecturers told News Line they are determined to defend their pay, pensions and jobs against the Tory-led...
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...
Angry Aslef pickets reject four per cent pay offer!
STRIKING ASLEF pickets were at Kings Cross Station yesterday morning on the first of three one day strike actions. They are extremely angry over the...
May’s ‘Insulting’ Pay Offer!
TWO million out of five million public sector workers are set to get a £2bn ‘below-inflation pay rise’ as one of PM May’s final...
Tory PM Johnson to prorogue Parliament
THE QUEEN has been asked by Tory PM Boris Johnson to prorogue Parliament days after MPs return from the Summer break, which will mean...
‘I can’t breathe!’ – Kevin Clarke’s death in police custody case to be reopened
THE MOTHER of a mentally ill black man who died after being restrained by up to nine Metropolitan Police Service officers has said she...
Corbyn woos CBI bosses
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn began his speech to the CBI yesterday by declaring his loyalty and enthusiasm for business. He said: ‘And if a Labour...
TEACHERS STRIKE ‘A NOBLE PURPOSE’ – says NEU leader Courtney
HUNDREDS of thousands of teachers, university workers, civil servants and transport workers are striking in the biggest strike day in more than a decade...
Nurses Vote To Strike In A Majority Of NHS Employers Across UK
NURSING staff have voted to strike in the majority of NHS employers across the UK. Nursing staff at the majority of NHS employers across the...
Refugees unlawfully imprisoned in Napier – High Court rules Home Office broke the law!
IN A CRITICAL and damning judgment, the Home Office’s decision to house asylum seekers who had made it across the Channel in a ‘squalid’...
‘Don’t cut Universal Credit!’ – Unite appeals to Chancellor Sunak
MORE than half the country wants chancellor Rishi Sunak to continue permanently with the £20-a-week uplift in Universal Credit (UC) due to end in...
200 steelworkers march on Parliament! – fighting to defend their jobs
OVER 200 steelworkers from all over the country marched from Trafalgar Square to a rally in Parliament Square yesterday morning. They are fighting against the...
SUNAK’S FLEXIBLE FURLOUGH! – to bring in wage and job cuts & part-time working
‘THE FURLOUGH scheme can not continue indefinitely,’ Tory Chancellor Sunak said yesterday at the Downing Street daily briefing, announcing that by September, the employer...
COVID-19 STAFF DEATHS – HSE Executive is urged to investigate
THE Health and Safety Executive is being urged to investigate hospitals and care homes over the widespread Covid-19 infections among staff, which led to...
May Put On 3 Days Notice
THE LABOUR, Tory, LibDem, SNP alliance of pro-EU MPs yesterday afternoon delivered another blow on behalf of the European Union against the 2016 referendum...
One million march for Palestine – Forward to a General Strike!
ONE MILLION workers, students and youth marched from Hyde Park Corner in central London to the American Embassy in Nine Elms, south west London...