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Berny Torre
NEU 17.4.25
Britain / 17 April 2025
NEU delegates call for work towards a single education union
17 April 2025
By Berny Torre in Harrogate
NEU general secretary Daniel Kebede
Britain / 17 April 2025
National Education Union threatens campaign against Labour over pay
17 April 2025
By Berny Torre in Harrogate
Social media
NEU Conference 2025 / 17 April 2025
Unregulated social media fuelling ‘extreme’ violence in schools, NEU moves
17 April 2025
Children
NEU Conference 2025 / 17 April 2025
Child poverty forcing schools to pay for pupils’ beds and pillows, education leaders warn
17 April 2025
a general view of a sign displaying a 'good' Ofsted rating o
NEU Conference 2025 / 16 April 2025
Teachers union slam Ofsted's ‘Nandos-style’ gradings
16 April 2025
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage poses outside The Waterford Lo
Britain / 15 April 2025
‘Farage is just a pound shop Trump’
15 April 2025
National Education Union vows to fight Reform UK's election candidates and racist policies
BP sign
NEU Conference 2025 / 15 April 2025
Boycott of Science Museum over fossil fuel sponsorship backed by the NEU
15 April 2025
Members of the National Education Union (NEU) hold a rally a
NEU Conference 2025 / 15 April 2025
Teacher strikes as early as autumn if Labour fails to fund above-inflation pay rise, NEU moves
15 April 2025
People take part in a Palestine Solidarity Campaign rally in
NEU Conference 2025 / 15 April 2025
Schools and colleges must cut ties with arms companies, NEU says
15 April 2025
NEU delegate David Room moves motion calling for an end to f
NEU Conference 2025 / 15 April 2025
‘We demand that local authority services are back on the agenda’
15 April 2025
NEU conference urges Labour to fix school funding crisis by getting rid of academy bosses earning over £500,000
Pupils in a classroom
NEU Conference 2025 / 14 April 2025
Labour blasted for ramping up defence spending as Send crisis worsens
14 April 2025
Members of the National Education Union (NEU) hold a rally o
NEU Conference 2025 / 14 April 2025
Teachers to vote on preparing for pay strike as ‘austerity will be ended by deeds not words’
14 April 2025
(left to right) Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves, P
NEU Conference 2025 / 14 April 2025
NEU president slams Labour's renewed austerity
14 April 2025
A primary school teacher looking stressed next to piles of c
Britain / 14 April 2025
Nearly half of teachers say number of unfilled positions has worsened
14 April 2025
A general view of British Steel in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire.
Britain / 13 April 2025
Campaigners demand full nationalisation of British Steel after government seizes control of Scunthorpe plant
13 April 2025
HMP Frankland in Durham
Britain / 13 April 2025
Prison officers suffered serious injuries after attack by Manchester Arena bomb plotter, POA reveals
13 April 2025
Protesters hold a CND flag in Parliament Square in London
Britain / 13 April 2025
CND to blockade RAF Lakenheath after US exemption to British nuclear safety rules revealed
13 April 2025
Daniel Kebede, the General Secretary Elect of the National E
Britain / 11 April 2025
Teachers' strikes to be debated at NEU annual conference
11 April 2025
The steelworks plant in Scunthorpe
Britain / 11 April 2025
Parliament recalled for MPs to vote on nationalising British Steel
11 April 2025
Furniture and uncollected refuse bags in the Sparkhill area
Britain / 11 April 2025
Unite leader asks why councillors are not facing a pay cut after Rayner backs ‘improved’ Birmingham bin strike deal
11 April 2025
A stack of British one pound coins
Britain / 11 April 2025
Black workers 50 per cent more likely to be employed on exploitative zero-hour contracts than white workers, TUC reveals
11 April 2025
Daniel Kebede general secretary of the National Education Un
Britain / 10 April 2025
Teaching union leader backs legal ban on mobile phones in schools
10 April 2025
Andrew Tate speaks to media outside the Directorate for Inve
Britain / 10 April 2025
Andrew Tate pointed gun to woman's face and said ‘you're going to do as I say’, court documents allege
10 April 2025
Members of Unite on the picket line in Tyseley, Birmingham,
Britain / 8 April 2025
Austerity behind Birmingham bin strikes, Wes Streeting told after attacks on Unite
8 April 2025
A post office van in Aldwych, central London
Britain / 8 April 2025
CWU says Post Office sell-off is ‘privatisation via the back door’
8 April 2025
dossier: The lawyers hand in the evidence to New Scotland Ya
Britain / 7 April 2025
Cops to probe Gaza atrocities by ten Britons
7 April 2025
A pharmacist stocking shelves
Britain / 7 April 2025
More than half of A&E patients not given critical medicines, report warns
7 April 2025
People take part in a protest demanding an end to Israel war
Britain / 6 April 2025
Foreign Secretary slams Israel for deporting two Labour MPs
6 April 2025
Tributes left during a vigil in Golden Square, Warrington, t
Britain / 6 April 2025
Brianna Ghey's mother warns against watering down Online Safety Act to appease Trump
6 April 2025
Youth Demand activists in Old Street, central London, April
Britain / 6 April 2025
Youth Demand ‘swarm’ London calling for total trade embargo with Israel
6 April 2025
No 10 Downing Street
Britain / 6 April 2025
Labour's quango reassessment plan must retain specialist skills, union warns
6 April 2025
teens
Britain / 4 April 2025
More than a third of teenage girls feel unsafe in schools in England, study warns
4 April 2025
Mark Drakeford
National Insurance / 4 April 2025
Unison urges ministers to 'play fair' as Welsh public services face up to £65m black hole
4 April 2025
parliament 4.4.25
Britain / 4 April 2025
Medical Aid for Palestinians founder gives speech outside BMA House after being cancelled
4 April 2025
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, is applauded by Deputy Prim
Britain / 3 April 2025
Labour faces losing one of its safest seats after alienating its voter base
3 April 2025
Furniture and uncollected refuse bags in the Sparkhill area
Britain / 3 April 2025
Unite urges government to intervene in the Birmingham bin strikes
3 April 2025
FBU flag
Britain / 3 April 2025
Angela Rayner urged to end firefighter pension delays
3 April 2025
People listen to speeches during a rally called by Republica
Britain / 2 April 2025
Britain urged to halt warplane deal of 40 Eurofighter jets with Erdogan
2 April 2025
A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward
Britain / 1 April 2025
NHS staff's fury with Labour as pay delay exposes them to cost-of-living crisis
1 April 2025
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer
Britain / 31 March 2025
‘A wasted opportunity to do what is really needed’
31 March 2025
Starmer's ‘Organised Immigration Crime Summit’ fails to find the simple solution to upend human smugglers’ business model: safe routes
A person holding an energy bill
Britain / 31 March 2025
Dozens of fuel poverty protests planned across Britain
31 March 2025
CEO of Primark Paul Marchant at Penneys flagship store on Ma
Britain / 31 March 2025
Primark chief resigns over ‘error of judgment’ towards a woman
31 March 2025
Protesters on Whitehall in London, as Chancellor of the Exch
Britain / 28 March 2025
Barrage of bill hikes sees the cost-of-living crisis bite
28 March 2025
Government must take action, union warns: ‘We can’t go on with billionaires getting ever richer whilst working people suffer’
Protesters march towards Parliament Square, London, as Chanc
Britain / 28 March 2025
More than 30 MPs poised to vote against disability benefit cuts
28 March 2025
A general view of the British Steel Ltd steelworks in Scunth
Britain / 28 March 2025
Labour told to renationalise British Steel if deal can't be reached
28 March 2025
A silhouette of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer holding a pr
Britain / 28 March 2025
Starmer's communications chief quits nine months into the job
28 March 2025
Uncollected refuse bags in the Sparkhill area of Birmingham,
Britain / 27 March 2025
Resolution to Birmingham bin strikes ‘hobbled’ by commissioners, Unite says
27 March 2025
A general view taken by drone of the British Steel Ltd steel
Britain / 27 March 2025
Unions call for government backing as thousands of British Steel jobs put at risk
27 March 2025
A group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to D
Exclusive / 25 March 2025
Ukrainian-style visa system would end Channel deaths and destroy smugglers overnight, PCS says
25 March 2025
Activists protest against insurance companies underwriting t
Britain / 25 March 2025
Palestine, climate and migrant activists storm insurance offices in cities across England
25 March 2025
A view of Napier Barracks in Folkestone, Kent, where people
Britain / 25 March 2025
Home Office ends £2bn contract with asylum-seeker hotel provider
25 March 2025
Britain / 25 March 2025
RMT concerned over Labour's plans to have bus drivers confront criminals
25 March 2025
A general view of a prison
Britain / 25 March 2025
Prison officers union calls for wealth tax amid ‘immediate crisis’ in jails
25 March 2025
a view of £5, £10, £20 and £50 bank notes
Britain / 24 March 2025
Ministers warned poor job quality costs up to £41 billion a year
24 March 2025
A preschool age child playing with plastic building blocks
Britain / 24 March 2025
Wales becomes first British nation to remove profit from children's residential and foster care
24 March 2025
People using cash machines in Halifax in Yorkshire
Britain / 24 March 2025
Banks, businesses and ATMs face potential cash shortages during G4S strike
24 March 2025
Chancellor Rachel Reeves gives a speech on economic growth a
Britain / 23 March 2025
‘Pure vandalism’: services to be decimated by Chancellor's plans to slash Civil Service's running costs
23 March 2025
‘If the last government taught us anything, it’s that you can’t cut your way to growth,’ unions and campaigners tell Reeves
A general view of Grenfell Tower, in west London, February 9
Britain / 21 March 2025
Cladding crisis scale unknown 8 years after Grenfell blaze
21 March 2025
MPs say ministers have 'heads in sand' on safety
Firefighters at the North Hyde electrical substation which c
Britain / 21 March 2025
Heathrow and National Grid face No. 10 grilling as substation fire closes Britain's biggest airport
21 March 2025
Tommy Robinson, October 25, 2024
Britain / 21 March 2025
High Court throws out Tommy Robinson's bid to challenge his segregation in prison
21 March 2025
Rows of overflowing bins in the Selly Oak area of Birmingham
Britain / 20 March 2025
Birmingham City Council reaches ‘new low’ after firing agency staff ‘for speaking to picketers’
20 March 2025
Uncollected refuse bags in the Sparkhill area of Birmingham,
Britain / 19 March 2025
Government ‘flying blind’ on council finances due to local audit crisis, PAC warns
19 March 2025
Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall arrives in Downing S
Britain / 17 March 2025
‘Labour MPs didn’t enter politics to push vulnerable people deeper into poverty’
17 March 2025
Disabled people and MPs mobilising against government's ‘appalling’ welfare cuts
Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage and party chairman Zia Y
Britain / 17 March 2025
Labour suffers significant decline as Reform UK makes ground, polling shows
17 March 2025
River Thames weir
Britain / 17 March 2025
Lockkeepers prepare for strike ballot amid increasing flood risks
17 March 2025
Money is stacked on top of a council tax bill
Britain / 17 March 2025
Majority face third year of maximum council tax rises
17 March 2025
The sign outside the Home Office in Westminster, London
Britain / 17 March 2025
Home Office changes to skilled worker visa route criticised by spending watchdog
17 March 2025
Pupils in a classroom
Britain / 17 March 2025
School absences behind widening attainment gap, report says
17 March 2025
People protest at the Port of Dover after P&O Ferries suspen
Britain / 17 March 2025
TUC and seafarers’ unions say more needs to be done on third anniversary of P&O Ferries scandal
17 March 2025
NHS workers on the picket line outside St Thomas' Hospital,
Britain / 14 March 2025
‘This should send shockwaves through the NHS, government, and society’
14 March 2025
RCN warns nurses are leaving the NHS due to shocking levels of racist abuse and understaffing
Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary Ed Miliband looks on
Britain / 14 March 2025
Miliband's China trip welcomed for potential co-operation on climate change
14 March 2025
A stack of British one pound coins
Britain / 14 March 2025
Fair pay agreements in construction, childcare and rail crucial to government aims, experts say
14 March 2025
Momentum stock photo
Britain / 13 March 2025
Momentum launches campaign to get Labour MPs to vote down government welfare cuts
13 March 2025
Former P&O staff and RMT members block the road leading to t
Britain / 13 March 2025
Employment Rights Bill ‘failing workers’ three years after P&O Ferries fire-and-rehire scandal
13 March 2025
Pupils in a classroom
Britain / 13 March 2025
It's ‘now or never’ as teacher shortages lead to record class sizes, report warns
13 March 2025
A boy looks over a newly established tent camp for displaced
Britain / 12 March 2025
Labour ramped up Britain's Israeli arms exports after general election, data shows
12 March 2025
Fujitsu UK head office
Britain / 12 March 2025
Fujitsu-outsourced HMRC workers to strike for 22 days
12 March 2025
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Britain / 12 March 2025
Just Stop Oil pour orange latex over life-sized robot in Tesla store in London
12 March 2025
A screenshot from footage showing Palestine Action Activists
Britain / 10 March 2025
Palestine Action activists occupy Allianz's offices in the City of London
10 March 2025
People take part in the Clean Water march in central London,
Britain / 10 March 2025
Environmentalists hail High Court ruling, closing farming manure loophole polluting rivers
10 March 2025
Campaigners from Police Spies out of Lives speak to the medi
Britain / 10 March 2025
Spycops' victims threaten to walk away from nearly 10 year-long inquiry
10 March 2025
Commuters and travellers at Edinburgh's Waverley Station, Ma
Britain / 10 March 2025
Scottish Greens call for SNP to reconsider return of peak rail fares
10 March 2025
A view of £5, £10, £20 and £50 bank notes
Britain / 10 March 2025
‘We need to turn the corner on Britain’s low-rights, low-pay economic model’
10 March 2025
Campaigners say Labour's cost-cutting welfare reforms are unlikely to improve skyrocketing cost of work-related ill-health
Unite flag
Britain / 9 March 2025
Unite hits out at plans to cut overseas aid to lowest ever proportion of GDP
9 March 2025
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Pat McFadden arrives at
Britain / 9 March 2025
Unions push back on ‘radical’ plans to cut Civil Service
9 March 2025
PAL-TURN-08-03-25-IMD-SEMI-IPTC-24
Britain / 9 March 2025
Palestine activists dig up and paint over Trump's Scottish golf course
9 March 2025
Campaigners march through Brighton, demanding undocumented m
Britain / 7 March 2025
Unions say Employment Rights Bill must protect undocumented migrants
7 March 2025
A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward
Britain / 7 March 2025
New report on rebuilding NHS ‘lays bare the truth’ about privatisation, Labour MP says
7 March 2025
A general view of the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, which was f
Britain / 7 March 2025
Unions and patient groups urge new NHS England boss to rule out private finance
7 March 2025
Big radar
Britain / 7 March 2025
Campaign against US radar station in Wales taken to the Senedd
7 March 2025
Mayor of Liverpool Joe Anderson during the Netball World Cup
Britain / 7 March 2025
Former Liverpool mayor charged on corruption probe
7 March 2025
A person dripping testing solution into a Covid 19 lateral f
Britain / 7 March 2025
Hope for long Covid sufferers to regain sense of smell
7 March 2025
25-Miscarriages-of-Justice-APPG-9907
Britain / 6 March 2025
Britain returning to ‘bad old days’ of the Birmingham Six
6 March 2025
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer, right, greets French
Britain / 6 March 2025
Starmer ‘cheerleading for a worldwide arms race’ as No 10 confirms nuclear discussions with France
6 March 2025
Eddie Dempsey joins the picket line outside Paddington Stati
Britain / 6 March 2025
Eddie Dempsey elected as RMT's new general secretary
6 March 2025
Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy leaves Downing Street, London,
Britain / 6 March 2025
Nandy ‘callously indifferent’ to Palestinians as she demands answers from BBC
6 March 2025
school children in a classroom
Britain / 6 March 2025
Disadvantaged pupils denied crucial support by ‘out-of-touch’ means-testing, NEU says
6 March 2025
GMB flags
Britain / 6 March 2025
G4S cash handlers begin voting on strike action over real-terms pay cut
6 March 2025
Britain / 6 March 2025
‘Carrot-and-stick’ won't help disabled and long-term ill into work, Work Foundation warns
6 March 2025
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves attending the Make
Britain / 5 March 2025
Fury at Reeves's war on the poor
5 March 2025
Andy McDonald, May 2019
Britain / 5 March 2025
Labour's McDonald submits 18 amendments to the Employment Rights Bill
5 March 2025
A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward at Ealing Hos
Britain / 5 March 2025
A&E patients told to soil themselves sparks call for NHS funding ‘to meet need’
5 March 2025
Unison Flag
Britain / 5 March 2025
NHS counsellors being paid at trainee rates voting for potential strikes, Unison says
5 March 2025
Merseyrail trains lined up on the track at Kirkdale Depot
Britain / 5 March 2025
Liverpool mayor must nationalise Merseyrail, RMT says
5 March 2025
Matt Wrack speaks to the media, next to the Grenfell Memoria
Britain / 5 March 2025
Veteran FBU leader Matt Wrack nominated by NASUWT executive for general secretary
5 March 2025
gftu
Britain / 5 March 2025
GFTU's education courses open to unaffiliated unions
5 March 2025
Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds arrives in Downing Stre
Britain / 4 March 2025
Total fire and rehire ban missing from ‘far from perfect’ Employment Rights Bill changes
4 March 2025
Destroyed buildings stand in the Gaza Strip as seen from sou
Britain / 4 March 2025
BBC chief accused of endangering Gazan children after insisting he pulled documentary over ‘trust’
4 March 2025