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15 May 2013
Condition critical: Cuts in NHS staffing levels as a result of 'efficiency savings', and the drive to achieve Foundation Trust status, mean that patient care is at unsafe levels, writes Simon Carter.
1 May 2013
Education civil servants' walkout this afternoon
Civil servants in the Department for Education are walking out on strike at 3pm this afternoon, 1st May, in opposition to the closure of half of the department's 12 offices in England...
27 March 2013
What does the budget really mean for the housing crisis?
The government's claim to be tackling the housing crisis dominated budget headlines, but it quickly became clear that its policies give a hand-out to its millionaire friends
PCS strike on budget day, 20 March 2013 with NSSN 24 hour general strike placard, photo Paul Mattsson
27 March 2013
Reports from the picket lines and rallies
27 March 2013
Growth?: On the morning of the budget George Osborne, new to Twitter, tweeted: 'Today I'll present a budget that tackles the economy's problems head on helping those who want to work hard and get on'...
21 March 2013
Comment on the 'Budget waffle'
More budget waffle from Osborne and his alter ego Ed Balls. No mention by Balls of the £750 billion lying in the banks being used, not to invest, but to line the pockets of the spivs who control the banks...
20 March 2013
PCS national strike on Budget Day
Reports from the pickets and rallies: Once again central London was dotted everywhere with the yellow and blue of PCS flags and placards. The mood among pickets was determined
20 March 2013
Budget continues onslaught on living standards
As expected and feared, chancellor George Osborne's budget has driven on with the austerity that is massively eroding workers' living standards, while utterly failing to improve the economy
20 March 2013
Another Dooh Nibor budget - stealing from the poor to give to the rich
'All right, everybody be cool, this is a robbery!' It's not Pulp Fiction - its Tory Chancellor George Osborne at the dispatch box and this will be the essence of his budget speech, at least for the vast majority of us
15 March 2013
PCS preparing for 20 March strike, and more action after
The PCS is launching its national industrial action with a one-day strike on Budget Day, 20 March, and following that will take further action, including a half-day strike on 5 April
13 March 2013
20 March: PCS calls budget-day strike
Defend pay, pensions and conditions: After a ballot result of 61% in favour of strike action, the civil service union PCS national executive has announced a campaign of industrial action to fight back against attacks on civil servants' pay, pensions and terms and conditions
13 March 2013
Ex-mining village shows it can still fight: The pit has gone but the miners' spirit still remains in Keresley Village, an ex-mining community located within the boundaries of both Labour cut-voting councils - Coventry, and Nuneaton and Bedworth, writes Natara Hunter, Nuneaton Socialist Party.
7 March 2013
Council chief brags about cuts
York council has set out a further £22 million worth of cuts to local services which is the third successive cuts budget in as many years
7 March 2013
Hull, Warrington, Bristol and Bradford
Three Hull councillors remain defiant against Labour budget: Three Hull councillors, Gary Wareing, Dean Kirk and Gill Kennett, broke the Labour whip and voted against council budget cuts on Thursday 28 February, writes Phil Culshaw, Hull Unison steward (personal capacity).
6 March 2013
PCS calls national strike on Budget Day
A series of walkouts and protests by almost a quarter of a million civil and public servants will start with a national strike on budget day, 20 March, the PCS union has decided.
6 March 2013
Services 'not ours to give away' say Hull rebel councillors
Three Hull councillors broke the Labour whip to vote against budget cuts. They were supported by 400 people outside
6 March 2013
Warrington: One rebel defies the pro-cuts Heinz 47
Warrington councillor Kevin Bennett has voted against carrying out the Tory-Liberal government coalition's cuts
5 March 2013
Labour-led council inflicting £82 million of cuts
Bradford's Labour and Green councillors do Pickles' dirty work, while Respect just abstains
27 February 2013
Anti-cuts protester arrested for using right to free speech
Newcastle police arrested a youth worker for peacefully highlighting the devastating cuts being made by the Labour council
27 February 2013
Leicester protesters say no cuts!: On 20 February, 200 homeless people, trade unionists and campaigners lobbied Leicester's Labour council as they voted for cuts...
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