Garry Shaw (COHSE Charge Nurse Winwick Hospital ex Miner)
Brendan Doyle (COHSE Nursing Officer Walton Hospital)
Tony Clarke (COHSE Nursing Officer Burnley General Hospital)
Mike Murphy (COHSE Staff Nurse Oakwood Hospital Maidstone …Read more…
Atlas Lamps – 1924-1925 British Empire Exhibition – Wembley
GEC Atlas Lamps, 1924-1925 British Empire Exhibition – WembleyRead more…
Maud Wiese
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…
Nurses GLC Nurses Night 1986
UNISON members urge MPs to save the NHS bursary
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…
Kier Hardie – Royal Baby
Socialist Club of Shanghai – Jiang Kanghu
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…
Labour Movement Martyr’s
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…
Cossor (Highbury) Strike 1949
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…
Solid support for UK steel
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 ARP – Wembley 1942
Middlesex Civil Defence – Wembley Stadium 18th October 1942
“March Past”
Hurbert Morrison and Eileen Wilkinson MPRead more…
The time is now: we need a European Robin Hood Tax
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…
Holiday flights action backed
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…
Unions on the march & uniting across Europe, USA and Canada to say no to Market Economy Status for China
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…
Cancel all sell-offs call
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…
‘As reckless as it is ruthless’
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…
If the NHS bursary goes, it will put the future of our health service at risk
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
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…
The government must rethink its plans for the NHS bursary
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…
Last “whites” of the East End
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…