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Maud Wiese was the first women National Executive Member of the National Asylum Workers Union.
She was elected to the General Nursing Council (now NMC) in 1922 and fought for the rights and professionalism of mental health nurses, also arguing a…Read more…
Cutting financial ‘lifeline’ to student nurses will leave them thousands of pounds in debt
The article UNISON members urge MPs to save the NHS bursary first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
Jiang Kanghu
Native name
江亢虎
Born
July 18, 1883
Yiyang, Jiangxi, China
Died
December 7, 1954 (aged 71)
Shanghai, China
Nationality
Chinese
Jiang Kanghu (Chinese: 江亢虎; pinyin: Jiāng…Read more…
The Socialist September 1914
Socialist Labour Party
“The
men who to-day are asking you to fight are responsible for killing many
workers by turning the military on them when on…Read more…
In 1939 Young women at the Cossor radio factory in Highbury, North London went on strike for 2d
an hour wage rise.
Cossor’s had switched to developing radar during the war but had…Read more…
Hundreds of Unite steelworkers from across the UK joined their colleagues from steel unions GMB and Community in a march in London today (May 25) to press on with their fight to save the industry….Read more…
Middlesex Civil Defence – Wembley Stadium 18th October 1942
“March Past”
Hurbert Morrison and Eileen Wilkinson MPRead more…
Next month, on 17 June, European Finance Ministers will gather for a crunch meeting for the European financial transactions tax (the Robin Hood Tax, or FTT). Campaigners across Europe are urging the…Read more…
Unite cabin crew members working for Thomas Cook Airlines have backed strike action by three-to-one in a dispute over health and safety concerns and ‘dangerous’ changes to rest breaks it was…Read more…
Today Unite, GMB and Community held a March of Steelmakers in London which brought steel workers from across the country to Westminster to demand the government ensure the responsible sale of Tata Steel’s UK assets and deliver a sustainable industrial strategy. A key cause of the crisis currently…Read more…
Tory efforts to privatise Whitehall back office functions to save £500m a year have instead cost taxpayers an extra £4m – and are riddled with problems that will be expensive to fix, the National…Read more…
More than 800 HSBC workers will lose their jobs today (May 25) to cheap labour abroad, in a move which Unite said “was as reckless as it is ruthless.” The banking giant announced 840 IT jobs…Read more…
At a time when our NHS faces a nursing shortage (due in part to mismanagement and attacks on the profession), the government should be pulling out all of the stops to attract more people into careers…Read more…
COHSE Fleet Street Nurses Chapel in action 1970
COHSE Fleet street nurses branch Irene Aitken (Left) Aileen Flood COHSE Fleet Street nurses branch
Norah Fitz…Read more…
Today hundreds of healthcare students are descending on Parliament to lobby their MPs to protect the NHS bursary. The government decision in December’s spending review to scrap bursaries will leave student nurses, midwives and allied health professionals with huge levels of debt. And this fear of…Read more…
So, after a great NUJ meeting with a brilliantly ethnic diverse turn-out, I turn on the TV and the BBC is showing “Last Whites of the East End“. Despite being fully aware it would annoy me, I watched it. I’ve been trying to think of something to blog about, so here’s another…Read more…
Government plans to scrap the bursary funding for students on nursing, midwifery and other health degrees will mean around 2,000 fewer people a year will study for a career in the NHS, according to a…Read more…
COHSE nurses march with South Wales Miners in Cardiff 16th June 1982
33 South Wales went on strike in support of NHS workers 12% pay claim
On June 8th 50,000 on strike to support NHS workers in solidarity in Midlands and Yorkshire
Scottish…Read more…