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16 April 2008
Health campaigners fight council cuts
Huddersfield: THE SOCIALIST Party in Huddersfield is now deep into its third straight year of election campaigning, writes A Huddersfield Socialist Party member.
6 February 2008
Protests as multinational grabs health centre
AROUND 120 patients, health care workers and members of the public protested at St Paul's Way Medical Centre, the day before the Primary Care Trust (PCT) handed it over to multinational private company Atos Origin... By Liz Cowell
4 October 2007
Success! Double whammy for nursery campaign
Kirklees Council has performed its second u-turn in two weeks. Having planned to close three nurseries, it was forced to lift the axe hanging over Tiddlywinks... By Mike Forster Huddersfield Socialist Party
29 March 2007
Determined campaigners win reprieve
Kirklees nurseries: KIRKLEES COUNCIL in west Yorkshire has been threatening to close three nurseries, Tiddlywinks, Cambridge Road and Sankofa...
22 March 2007
Divisive forgery shocks health campaign
Kirklees: THE SAVE Huddersfield NHS campaign won a famous victory in last year's council elections in Kirklees council when local GP and Socialist Party member Jackie Grunsell was elected as a councillor for the Crosland Moor and Neth...
15 March 2007
UNISON leaders lead members into dead end
Local government pensions: ABOUT 900 UNISON members in local government met on 6 March to discuss the way forward on pensions...
8 March 2007
IN KIRKLEES council, the Tory administration's budget for next year included plans to close three children's nurseries in Huddersfield. ...
1 March 2007
THE SACKED careworkers at Unique in Huddersfield held a lobby outside the offices of Kirklees council in advance of the full council meeting on 28 February...
22 February 2007
Unique Care workers plan more protests
THE STRIKING careworkers at Unique Care in Huddersfield are entering the seventh week of their dispute...
7 February 2007
Striking back at the privateers
Unique Care: AS PRIVATISATION'S ugly face reveals itself with cuts and brutal attacks on terms and conditions, workers at Unique Care in Huddersfield are showing that, in one striker's words: "We need not and will not take it lying dow...
15 June 2006
Victory for 'save our school' campaign
"IF THIS school had been in an affluent area of Kirklees, we wouldn't have faced closure," commented Jeanette Peel, teacher and NUT member at a rally to save RM Grylls Middle School on the outskirts of Huddersfield from the axe, writes Mike Forster, Kirklees UNISON.
21 July 2005
WHEN I read newspaper stories of the arrests in West Yorkshire, I realised that the Dewsbury bomber was the son in law of Farida, a Unison member I visited only three weeks ago...
23 August 2003
BNP cash in on disillusionment with Labour
THE VICTORY for the BNP in Heckmondwike, a small working class town on the outskirts of Dewsbury and Batley in West Yorkshire, has come as both a shock and a wake-up call for the labour and trade union movement in Kirklees, writes By Mike Forster, Huddersfield.
19 July 2003
Kirklees Nursery nurses: United Action Gave Us Confidence
KIRKLEES NURSERY nurses recently won a regrading battle through strike action. Like their fellow workmates in Tower Hamlets, this victory was only achieved by a hard-hitting and united combination of strikes,...
24 May 2003
Nursery Nurses scent victory in pay battle
THE INCREASINGLY bitter pay battle by nursery nurses in Kirklees, Yorkshire is rapidly reaching a conclusion - in the union's favour, writes Mike Forster, joint chief education steward, Kirklees UNISON, (personal capacity).
15 June 2001
Kirklees nursery nurses: Labour's Low Pay Scandal
ON 16 JUNE, nursery nurses in Kirklees, Yorkshire will once again be taking to the streets to collect more signatures in support of their local pay claim...
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