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100% rise for health bosses
WHILE NHS workers are offered a miserly 2.5% pay award for the next year, bosses at Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre NHS Foundation Trust awarded themselves rises of over 100%! The Trust Chair saw her pay jump from £22,524 to £45,000, while a non-executive director, currently on £5,875, will get £13,000.
Ian Howie
This all stems from New Labour's establishment of foundation trusts, which have removed democratic accountability and given management the freedom to spend taxpayers' money any way they wish.
Incredibly Gordon Marsden, Labour MP for Blackpool South, claims he is "extremely surprised and concerned" by the trust managers' greed and thinks it "raises questions about the new foundation trust's openness and transparency". However, given that Marsden voted for the establishment of foundation trusts, his 'crocodile tears' reaction is a little hard to believe.
New Labour's programme of cuts and privatisation in the NHS has been a disaster both in Blackpool and nationwide.
An organised plan of action against the cuts by the NHS unions is urgently needed!
In this issue
 Step Up Fight Against Low Pay!
Force more u-turns out of this weak government
Housing crisis
Build Affordable Homes Now!
Socialist Party workplace news
Unison members say 'no' to witch hunt
Reasons to be cheerful about the trade unions
Public-sector workers say pay up!
National Shop Stewards Network second conference advert
Socialist Party campaigns
Give us back our Post Office!
Fightback saves Cardiff school
Southampton students: 'Don't gag us'
D-I-V-O-R-C-E
Glasgow: BNP not welcome here
100% rise for health bosses
Global food crisis
Them and Us: The great divide
Environment: Nuclear power
Nuclear industry's 'green' camouflage
London Olympics
London Olympics 2012: A great sporting occasion and a great profit-making opportunity
France 1968 - month of revolution
France 1968: Be realistic - demand the impossible!
International discussion on the way forward for socialists
Video: 'France 1968, month of revolution' London meeting
Campaign for a New Workers' Party conference
International socialist news and analysis
China: Earthquake disaster exposes regime's failings
Lebanon: Hezbollah routs pro-US Siniora government forces
Ireland: Vote no to Lisbon Treaty and EU militarisation!
France: Workers and youth resist Sarkozy's attacks
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