The Socialist 3 May 2007

Time for a new workers' party

2007 election analysis: Time for a new workers' party

Scottish Elections: Labour rocked as SNP wins

NHS cuts... privatisation... widening wealth gap

Campaign for a New Workers' Party conference

NHS: A matter of life and death in Swansea

Fat cats eye the cream

PCS: Fighting for jobs, pay and services

Picketing the Tate Modern

Widening wealth gap needs working-class response

Packed election rally for Scotland's Solidarity

Irish election - Socialist Party takes on the establishment

New Labour panics and resorts to lies

Yorkshire ISR and Socialist Students day of action

Alternative energy: Winds of change?

Stop these education cuts

Campaign to Defeat Fees

Seattle students walkout against the Iraq war

Pressure mounts for troops withdrawal

Russia April 1917: Lenin returns from exile

Women must have the right to choose!

What 'public-private partnerships really mean

Campaigning for LGBT rights

Oppose legal aid contracts tooth and nail

Support the Sunvic strikers

Greenwich workers fight on

Remember the dead but fight for the living

The scandal of HSE cuts

Previous issues, etc

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The scandal of HSE cuts

THE NUMBER of workers killed in construction accidents last year rose by 25%, but the number of companies convicted of offences following the deaths of construction workers has fallen by nearly three quarters, a report by building union UCATT says.

UCATT and other construction unions have campaigned for a crackdown on companies that jeopardise safety on building sites with legislation that means directors can face imprisonment if a worker is killed on their companies' sites.

Their report shows Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecutions for deaths plummeted from 42% to 11% between 1998 and 2004 with some cases taking three years to come to trial.

Over this six-year period 504 construction workers died.

Also, the government plan to cut around 300 jobs from the HSE and move 300 jobs from the London office to Bootle. Public and Commercial Services union members protested at these cuts on 30 April, joined by some of the bereaved families.

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