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MANY thousands of health workers have a chance from today to send a strong message of protest to health secretary Jeremy Hunt over...

A GMB member employed by Amazon in one of its depots fell ill after handling packaging on goods imported into the UK. The member is...

WAGES fell by 0.2% in the year to June was the shock news released by the ONS yesterday. Britain is now a nation of the...

NURSES, doctors and other health workers were ‘slapped in the face’ by the coalition government yesterday, as it emerged that NHS workers...

OVER a million council workers and school support staff are to strike on 14 October over the government’s 1% pay ‘offer’. Unions representing over a...

THEY are smashing up the NHS as founded in 1948. The health service in England Wales and Northern Ireland is in huge crisis. Cuts...

WITH 23,000 beds being cut from hospital wards over the last four years alone, the entire trade union movement must immediately move into action...

THE Prison Officers Association (POA) have condemned a government scheme to form a reserve force for England and Wales to help it respond to...

THE Tory coalition is accelerating its onslaught on the NHS. Every structure that was good in our publicly provided NHS is being destabilised and...

THE Fire Brigades Union has welcomed an offer from the government in Northern Ireland that would allow firefighters to retire at 55 without financial...

STAFF at Glyndwr University have overwhelmingly voted in favour of industrial action in a dispute over job losses. 84% of members of the University and...

THE CPI rate of inflation fell to 1.5% in the year to May 2014, down from 1.8% in April, according to the Office of...

FIREFIGHTERS in England and Wales went out on a 24-hour strike over the massive attacks that are taking place on their pensions. The walk-out, which...

ON Tuesday the world’s major investors, plus celebrities such as ex-President Clinton, confirmed admirers, and even relics of feudal society such as Prince Charles,...

STOP The War yesterday condemned the government for blocking a petition submitted to its e-petitions website which called for an end to NATO exercises...

THE crisis in primary care was the topic of an open microphone discussion at the LMC GPs conference in York yesterday morning. Speaker after...

THE conference of General Practitioners organised by the British Medical Association ( BMA) takes place this year at York today and tomorrow, 22nd and...

UNISON members working for Care UK are marching through Doncaster today at 2pm after 30 days of strike action against Bridgepoint Capital, the private...

THE NHS prescription charge is ‘iniquitous’ and ‘outdated’ and should be scrapped, urge GPs in the Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin (DTB), edited...

‘The Abbott Government’s assault on welfare, Medicare, education and the public sector represents the end of the fair go and the biggest attack on...

‘THERE still needs to be a full public inquiry into blacklisting and the activities of major construction employers who still to this day restrict...

The National Union of Teachers (NUT) voted overwhelmingly yesterday in favour of holding a one-day strike in England and Wales in the week...

TEACHERS from across the UK will be gathering in Birmingham at the Annual Conference of the NASUWT teachers’ union over the Easter weekend to...

CHILDHOOD is being eroded as children spend less time with families and friends, according to a survey of members of the Association of Teachers...

PROBATION officers and solicitors across England and Wales walked out on a 36-hour strike at noon yesterday and they are staying out until...

THE UK’s current account deficit was larger than expected in the final quarter of last year, official figures have shown. The deficit in the...

SCHOOLS were closed or disrupted across England and Wales on Wednesday as hundreds of thousands of angry teachers took part in a one-day strike...

HUNDREDS of thousands of teachers, members of the NUT, took strike action yesterday in defence of jobs, pay and their pensions. In London more...

ACCORDING to the BBC Panorama programme, broadcast last night, the NHS is being defrauded of £5 billion a year, a massive loss to a...

OVER 100 teachers from around the UK attended a Professional Unity conference last Saturday, organised by their trade unions. Speakers were Mary Bousted, Association of...

The UK’s rail unions joined colleagues from across Europe in Strasbourg on Tuesday to protest against European Commission (EC) plans to impose the privatisation...

UNISON on Monday condemned a range of draconian measures imposed on low-paid homecare workers by Apex Care, which include a gagging order, refusals to...

THE GMB  has   reacted furiously to the local government employer’s announcement that they have unilaterally cancelled pay negotiations for 1.5 million staff working in...

TEACHERS’ unions on Monday rejected Labour leader Ed Miliband’s proposal for parent-run schools. They were commenting on his Hugo Young lecture where Miliband set out...

HUNDREDS of houses have been flooded across the country over these last months, and angry residents are demanding to know why nothing has been...

UNISON public sector union has pledged to ‘fight on’ in the face of the High Court ruling rejecting Unison’s challenge to the government’s...

THE National Union of Teachers (NUT) yesterday announced a national strike across England and Wales on Wednesday 26 March. The NUT said the strike is...

A former British Army officer has denied that he or his troops were ‘deliberately uncooperative’ with the Al-Sweady investigation into allegations of systematic torture...

TRADE union leaders were silent on proposing any action on Thursday despite a vote taken in the House of Lords on Tuesday being a...

AFTER the House of Lords accepted the Lobbying Bill by just one vote the bill is now set to become law. The TUC Congress 2013...

MPs in the House of Commons on Thursday voted by 120 votes to three to demand that the government releases papers related to Shrewsbury...

THE AUSTRALIAN Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) has rallied with other Australian unions to increase worldwide pressure on the South Korean government to cease its...

THE FAMILY of Mark Duggan, who was shot dead by police in August 2011, said yesterday that the family will fight the inquest decision...

COUNCILS all over the UK are poised to make the most savage cuts ever that will wreck and destroy local communities by destroying all...

OVER 200 barristers, solicitors, law students, probation officers and trade union supporters demonstrated outside Westminster Magistrates Court in defence of legal aid on Monday...