Speaking Out in Defence of the NHS and Fighting to Safeguard Its Future Charlotte Monro WW: What was the climate behind your dismissal from Whipps Cross Hospital? At the time of my dismissal, Whipps…Read more…
NHA Party: Safeguarding the Future of the NHS.
Safeguarding the Future of the NHS Workers’ Weekly Interview with Dr Helen Salisbury, National Health Action Party candidate, Oxford West and Abingdon WW: Can you tell us why you decided to…Read more…
Profit motive is ‘ripping through the NHS’, Andy Burnham warns.
As income from paying patients grows, Labour says the service will crumble under the Tories. Independent Charlie Cooper Health Correspondent The UK’s first privately run NHS hospital more than…Read more…
IOWTUC on Political affiliation:
letter to Tuc from the Trades Council https://iowtuc.wordpress.com/2015/04/30/letter-to-tuc-from-the-trades-council/ Megan Dobney Regional Secetary Sertuc Congress House Great Russell Street London…Read more…
Unite launches campaign to tackle ‘Victorian’ work practices in Sports Direct
Britain’s largest union, Unite, announced today (Tuesday 28 April) that it was launching a confidential advice and support line as part of a campaign to confront abusive ‘Victorian’ work practices at…Read more…
Ambulance Service staff to go on strike:
Ambulance Service staff belonging to the Unite union have said they are to go on strike on 6 May. About 150 staff out of the ambulance service’s total workforce of 1,100 are members of Unite….Read more…
Midwives Strike:
Midwives in Northern Ireland staged a four-hour strike from 08:00 BST and 12:00 BST on Thursday in a pay dispute. The strike is over a 1% pay rise that was awarded last year to all midwives in…Read more…
May Day 2015, Day of the International Working Class:
The Working Class Must Keep the Initiative in its Own Hands On the occasion of May Day, RCPB(ML) sends warm greetings to the working class in Britain and internationally who are in struggle, building…Read more…
MAY DAY 2015
MAY DAY 2015, Day of the International Working Class EVENTS AROUND BRITAIN London: MAY DAY 2015, FRIDAY MAY 1ST, Assemble Clerkenwell Green 12.00, Rally at Trafalgar Square from 14.20. Speakers…Read more…
Manufacturing in the balance?
From the latest official figures, it looks as if manufacturing’s share of GDP is hovvering well below pre-recession levels. A TUC briefing, Manufacturing in the balance suggests that our ‘foundation industries’, the productive heartland of UK manufacturing, are losing businesses and jobs at a…Read more…
Kill a Worker, Go to Jail!
April 28, Day of Mourning for Workers Killed or Injured on the Job The Demand Remains the Same: Kill a Worker, Go to Jail! April 28, the Day of Mourning for workers killed or injured on the job, is…Read more…
Voters have straight choice between Dr Louise Irvine and Jeremy Hunt
Suspension of Lib Dem in South West Surrey means voters have straight choice between Dr Louise Irvine and Jeremy Hunt “The suspension of Patrick Haveron means I am now the only candidate able to beat…Read more…
The Campaign Against Euro-Federalism (CAEF):
CAEF AGM and Public Meeting The Campaign against Euro-Federalism (CAEF) held its AGM followed by a public meeting on April 11 in Birmingham. AGM Reports on CAEF’s activity, financial situation and…Read more…
The Funding of the NHS Is a Central Election Issue
One of the most important questions raised in the General Election campaign, and one over which the maximum confusion is spread, is over the necessity to fund the NHS. One would think, to hear the…Read more…
For the workers on the IOW, the outcome of the election will mean that there is a return to the norm – the struggle continues…
On the Isle of Wight, the latest Election analysis has shown that Tory Andrew Turner’s campaign problems have had a significant effect on his vote. Some are predicting he will be pushed out of…Read more…
The Capitalist Epidemic of Anxiety
There is an epidemic in the capitalist world affecting all classes but specifically the working class. It is a product of the oppression of the workers and their marginalisation. In the struggle to…Read more…
Growing numbers of paramedics are going off sick with stress as the demand for 999 services increases.
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…
Signal Failure – Rail privatisation & the fight against it
20 years ago I wrote a pamphlet for the Thames Valley District Council of the RMT. The text on the back page reads: “Rail privatisation is a universally unpopular measure save for a few ‘free market’ ideologues and managers looking to make a financial killing in line with the top…Read more…
International Workers’ Memorial Day
International Workers’ Memorial Day on 28 April 2015 is our day to remember the dead and fight for the living. Up to 50,000 people die each year in the UK from work-related ill health and…Read more…