Paramedics take 40,000 days off sick with stress as strain on NHS takes toll Pressures of the job and dealing with trauma bring rise in mental health issues for 999 workers. Freedom of information…Read more…
Stealth cuts to hospitals push the NHS into the red (TUC)
Cuts to tariffs – the prices paid to hospitals for different medical procedures – are starving health trusts of income and contributing to the growing financial crisis in the NHS, according to new…Read more…
RMT members to ballot for strike at DLR
The RMT is to ballot its members at Docklands Light Railway in two separate disputes over pay and working conditions. Reps have been involved in extensive in talks with Keolis/Amey Docklands…Read more…
Ambulance workers in pay strike
A 24-hour stoppage on May 6 has been confirmed by Unite’s ambulance service members in Northern Ireland – the only health area in the UK where workers have not received an offer of a pay rise….Read more…
“If you care for the NHS, then vote for it” – Dave Prentis
“If you care for the NHS, then vote for it,” Dave Prentis told a packed Save Our NHS rally in Yorkshire at the weekend. The UNISON general secretary spoke at a packed Leeds Town Hall to…Read more…
e NEWS strike up date 27 April
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9 May – Save Barnet Libraries
Bradford bus drivers on strike over attacks to their terms and conditions
Unite accuses of First West Yorkshire of allowing services to wither on the vineRead more…
Surrendering to neo-liberal ‘fiscal discipline’
Keith Ewing suggests that Scottish independence may come sooner than the high-speed rail link, partly because of ‘Labour’s extraordinary proposal to give quasi-constitutional status to Austerity.’…Read more…
Unite seeks urgent meeting with HSBC over UK quit threat
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Snowdon (Yr Wyddfa) – Watkins Path April 2015
Off message but earlier this month I went to North Wales for my mum’s birthday but also to walk up Snowdon (Yr Wyddfa) to pay my respects in memory to my father whose ashes were scattered on at the summit in April 2002. I normally go with my sisters bu…Read more…
Think zero-hours contracts are bad? Wait ’til you hear about short-hours contracts …
TUC research shows 820,000 UK employees are under-employedRead more…
Employees in corporate governance
I just noticed something rather surprising. There are five political parties that make reference to enhancing the role of employees in corporate governance in their manifestos.
I have done Labour already, so here are the rest.
Lib Dems (page 137 in fu…Read more…
UNISON urges its members to “Keep It Co-op”
Last week UNISON in its national efocus newsletter urged its members to
“Help defend the Co-op’s Political Voice.
UNISON is urging members who belong to the Co-op to defend its link with the Co-operative Party.
The new management at the Co-op…Read more…
Chipping Barnet Library – Save Barnet Libraries march 25 April
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Ilford North, Stratford, Canning town, Ilford North
This collage is a snapshot of campaigning during the last 48 hours. On Thursday evening I went to Ilford North and was sent out with Ross, Jeremy and Glen to speak to the postal voters at the Tiptree Estate. Which is a very well managed and beautifully…Read more…
The band played waltzing matilda
Today is the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the First World War Gallipoli campaign. The 8 month conflict was one of the most vicious of that war.
This song was written by Eric Bogle in 1971 and was today described by a good friend of mine…Read more…
General Secretary fails to win fourth term…
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-bc41-Ward-beats-long-standing-Hayes-in-CWU-gen-sec-poll/#.VTuP1WpMVxs
Between work, life and the General Election I have neglected to comment on the outcome of the General Secretary Election in the Communications Wo…Read more…
Rana Plaza anniversary: Two years is too long to wait for union rights and compensation
Today marks the second anniversary of the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory in Bangladesh, the worst industrial disaster in the country’s history that killed almost 1200 workers, most of them women…Read more…