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COOL RECEPTION FOR BROWN – at the TUC Congress

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GORDON BROWN had a very cool reception at the TUC yesterday. The mood was set by the PCS delegation, which held up placards saying ‘No...

Ellesmere Port And Luton Plants – Premier Brown To Meet Gm...

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THE announcement that German Chancellor Merkel has clinched Magna’s bid for GM Europe with 5bn euros of guarantees has set the alarm bells ringing...

Magna to sack 10,000 – Woodley congratulates Mandelson and Brown

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THE Unite trade union leadership has reacted to the news that GM has handed over GM Europe to Magna, in a deal bankrolled by...

UNITE LOBBIED – by sacked Visteon and Gate Gourmet workers

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Over 80 sacked Visteon workers, Visteon retirees and a delegation of sacked Gate Gourmet workers lobbied the Unite union head office in Holborn, central...

‘All over the country our members sick and tired of...

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CWU members are standing fast at Royal Mail delivery offices across London, in their fight to defend jobs and basic trade union rights. Strike action...

GM decision this week – says German Economy Minister

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General Motors is expected to make a ‘fundamental decision’ this week about selling GM Europe, which includes Germany’s Opel and the UK’s Vauxhall, threatening...

Royal Mail Desperate To Break The Union!

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ROYAL Mail staff across the whole of the London postal area walked out on strike again yesterday. It was the latest action in the capital...

Sack Woodley and Simpson over Royal Mail strikebreaking

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TODAY the Communication Workers Union (CWU) London Divisional Committee has called a demonstration at the Unite union’s head office in Holborn, central London. ...

MASSIVE ‘YES’ VOTE –expected for national post strike

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A LEADING CWU (Communication Workers Union) representative in the Midlands yesterday said a national strike was needed to tackle ‘all our difficulties’. Malcolm Brundrett, CWU...

CWU TO LOBBY UNITE – stop managers scabbing!

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The Communication Workers Union (CWU) London Divisional Committee has called a demonstration at the Unite union’s head office in Holborn, central London, on Thursday. The...

‘WE’RE LOOKING FORWARD TO THE NATIONAL STRIKE’ – say CWU pickets

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Postmen and women were out in force on picket lines at 5.30am on Saturday all over London discussing the progress of their dispute against...

Blood Cuts Will Harm Patient Care

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Patient care in West Yorkshire will be under threat if plans for swingeing cuts to the blood service in Leeds go ahead, the Unite...

Occupy GMM Luton!

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THE German government yesterday made its move to try and secure GM Europe for Magna, the Canadian car parts manufacturer that wants to sack...

Workers begin to occupy their plants and demand nationalisation!

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BRITISH capitalism is on the rocks and has started to break apart! This is the significance of the total outstanding government debt of the...

MASS LOBBY OF MPs NEEDED – to demand GM nationalisation

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‘What is needed is a mass lobby of parliament to demand nationalisation,’ former GM Luton TGWU convenor Arthur Lynn told News Line yesterday. Commenting on...

BA workers reject wage cuts! Renationalise BA Now!

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A MASS meeting of more than 3,000 British Airways cabin crew workers yesterday threw out by a massive majority the airline’s plans to slash...

Mandelson Gives The Thumbs Down To Luton!

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BUSINESS Secretary Mandelson declared yesterday morning, before he even reached the Luton GM plant, that there would be no nationalisation of GM Luton –...

Union leaders refuse to defend BA workers wages and jobs –...

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BRITISH Airways workers are facing a huge fight to defend their jobs and conditions of employment against a vicious management onslaught. BA management have announced...

Class struggle sharpens – Organise general strike!

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900 construction workers were sacked at the Lindsey Oil Refinery, north Lincolnshire yesterday in what the GMB General Secretary Paul Kenny called ‘a case...

Nationalise Gm Now!

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‘GM workers in Luton should intensify their calls for a mass meeting to demand an immediate occupation,’ ex-Vauxhall convenor Arthur Lynn told News Line...

MAGNA – NO COMMITMENT TO VAUXHALL WORKERS – Mandelson talks are...

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Business Secretary Mandelson yesterday admitted that he was unable to get any commitment from GM Europe’s preferred bidder Magna on saving jobs at the...

Unite opposed to nationalising GM Luton

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‘AN occupation now is the way forward for GM Luton and Vauxhall Ellesmere Port to defend jobs. A mass meeting at GM Luton is...

OCCUPY GM LUTON NOW! – to defend all workers’ jobs

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WORKERS attending for the Monday night shift at the General Motors van plant in Luton were shocked to be informed that all production would...

Workers Must Occupy Gm Luton And Ellesmere Port And Demand Their...

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NEXT MONDAY June 1 GM will seek Section 11 Bankruptcy, cutting off GM Europe with less cash than is required to see the week...

Trades unions must fight for jobs for youth!

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NEARLY half of all employers (45 per cent) will not be offering jobs to 16-year-old school-leavers and graduates this year. The Chartered Institute of Personnel...

Simpson-Woodley and Lord Digby Jones are marching for a government subsidised...

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WHILE workers today are marching in Birmingham to defend their jobs, their leaders are marching along with Lord Digby Jones, the Tory ex-CBI chief...

Lord Jones and Sir Richard Branson turn on Brown

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TWO of the Brown government’s big business backers Lord Digby Jones, the ex-CBI boss and Richard Branson, the Thatcherite businessman have unsurprisingly turned-coat. No doubt...

BELFAST CONVENOR EXCLUDED – from talks with Visteon managers

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THE Visteon Belfast factory’s Unite convenor, John Maguire, said yesterday that he was being excluded from the meeting with the Visteon management. He...

Visteon Talks Delay!

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SACKED Visteon workers yesterday said that they had stopped 17 employees of the liquidator, KPMG, entering the plant in the morning who were seeking...

Salute the struggling Visteon workers – replace their treacherous national...

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THE News Line gives its full support to the workers at the Belfast, Enfield and Basildon Visteon plants who are fighting Visteon’s decision to...

‘WE WERE SHAFTED’ – say angry Stead McAlpin workers

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Over fifty Stead McAlpin sacked textile workers held a 24-hour picket and demonstration outside the factory in Cummersdale near Carlisle on Wednesday and are...

Simpson And Woodley Are Betraying The Working Class!

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THE joint general secretaries of Unite, Britain’s biggest union, met with Labour Chancellor Alistair Darling at Number 11 on Thursday for crisis talks on...

Occupy BMW Cowley – reinstate the sacked 850 agency workers

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IN August 2005 800 Gate Gourmet workers were sacked by megaphone in the car park of the Heathrow company. The TGWU, led by Tony...

LUTON GM WAGE CUTS! – supported by Unite union leaders

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WORKERS at the General Motors Truck and Van plant in Luton were yesterday voting on a management offer that cuts their hours and pay. The...

Mass strikes required to fight sackings and wage cuts

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THE jobs crisis in the UK is sharpening to boiling point in the motor car industry and in the power construction industry, affecting...

Gm To Impose Wage Cuts & Job Cuts

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UNITE union officers met with General Motors bosses on Thursday, to discuss the future of the company’s Luton plant. The 1,400 workers at the Kimpton...

NO RESCUE FOR CAPITALISM– FORWARD TO THE WORLD SOCIALIST REVOLUTION! –...

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THE Labour leaders are terrified the whole capitalist system is going to go, News Line Editor Paddy O’Regan told an audience of 200 youth...

PLYMOUTH HOUSING TRANSFER – ‘fraught with dangers’ warns Unite

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‘We continue to believe that stock transfer is fraught with financial hazards,’ Unite said yesterday after it was announced that Plymouth council tenants have...

Bank Of England Panic Rate Cut

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A realisation of the depth of the slump, yesterday drove the Bank of England to make a panic 1.5% cut in interest rates...

A LEADERSHIP VOTE ‘JUST IS’NT GOING TO HAPPEN’ says Unite’s Tony...

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CALLS for a Labour Party leadership election were condemned by UNITE union Joint General Secretary Tony Woodley yesterday. ‘I’ll back the prime minister until we...

Nationalise the energy companies to end fuel poverty

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PM Brown has rejected out of hand the trade union demand for a Windfall Tax on the oil, gas and energy companies, that are...

KEEP POISONS SERVICE OPEN – demands Unite union

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‘The welfare of cats and dogs will come before the fall-out from any terrorist attack in London under the capital’s new poison strategy’, warns...

Shop Stewards Barred By Unite

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‘I REFUSE to be bribed and blackmailed into silence. My struggle for justice continues’ Gordon McNeill declared last Wednesday. Discussions between the sacked Belfast airport...

40 Bus Workers Picket Ash Grove

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FORTY bus workers had a very lively picket yesterday morning, at Hackney’s Ash Grove bus depot in east London, as they staged the first...

MARCH AND OCCUPY TO SAVE CHASE FARM – say workers and...

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workers, trade unionists and local people are marching through Enfield on Saturday 26th July against the closure of Chase Farm Hospital, the announcement of...