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Three-day strike of Mid Yorkshire Unison NHS staff against pay cuts and mass downgrading, photo Iain Dalton
12 June 2013
Mid Yorks health workers win important concessions
The dispute between admin and clerical staff and the Mid Yorkshire Health Trust has ended with the Unison and Unite members accepting an improved pay protection deal, writes Adrian O'Malley, Unison branch secretary, Mid Yorkshire Health, personal capacity.
5 June 2013
Unison and Labour: Welsh government cuts are still cuts
Socialist Party members attending Unison conference tell me that there are motions on the agenda congratulating the Welsh government for supposedly protecting Welsh workers from the worst impact of the cuts, writes a Unison member.
London march to save the NHS, 18.5.13 , photo Dave Carr
5 June 2013
NHS crisis: Turn anger into action
No cuts at Royal Glamorgan Hospital: A former GP wrote to the Independent last week saying that the National Health Service (NHS) "is being intentionally destroyed in order that the sick and injured can be fully exploited for private profit"
29 May 2013
Stop the NHS privatisation rip-off
Privatisation of the NHS is demoralising NHS staff as terms and conditions are attacked and staff are ground down by an ever increasing workload, writes Steve Harbord.
28 May 2013
No future with Future Directions
North West Unison activists descended on Rochdale on the Bank Holiday weekend to support Unison members at 'social care' company Future Directions
22 May 2013
Several thousand health campaigners, trade unionists and socialists marched from Waterloo to Downing Street, central London, on 18 May against the government's attacks on the National Health Service (NHS)
Hardest Hit Protest: Disabled people and their families protest in central London against government spending cuts, photo Paul Mattsson
22 May 2013
Cuts kill: Con-Dem benefit 'reforms', mental health and suicide
Steven Bottrill, whose disabled mum Stephanie killed herself because of the bedroom tax, said: "Hopefully now someone will listen. Someone will realise what has gone on and change things"
Unison staff at Pinderfields hospital strike, photo Iain Dalton
22 May 2013
Support for Mid Yorkshire Health struggle in the Mirror
On 17 May, the Daily Mirror carried an excellent column by Paul Routledge about the important struggle taking place in Mid Yorkshire Health Trust.
Caerphilly march to save the A&E, photo Becky Davis
22 May 2013
Wales faces a bleak future on the basis of capitalism unless the working class can defend public services and the welfare state
22 May 2013
MPs' pay rise: £65,738 a year basic salary just isn't enough for our MPs. Not to mention their infamous expenses.
22 May 2013
The NHS is under the cosh, having been instructed by the government to make savings of £20 billion. This has driven a relentless assault upon the terms and conditions of thousands of employees
15 May 2013
Gloves off in Mid Yorks hospital battle
As the government continues to dismantle and privatise the NHS, workers' pay and conditions are under constant threat
Unison staff at Pinderfields hospital strike, photo Iain Dalton
15 May 2013
Trade union-led national action on NHS needed now: The chair of the NHS regulator has warned that pressure on A&E units is "out of control... [and] totally unsustainable"
London march to save the NHS, 18.5.13, photo Dave Carr
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.
Save our local hospital services (SOLHS) demonstration, held on Saturday 20 April 2013 in Dewsbury. , photo Dawn Wheelhouse
8 May 2013
NHS WARNING! Privatisation puts patients at risk
BMI Healthcare runs 65 private hospitals in Britain where it is the biggest private health firm. It usually gets an easy ride from the media, but less so recently, writes Roger Shrives.
Manchester mental health workers on strike, photo Christian Bunke
8 May 2013
Salford - two-faced attack on mental health
Salford council still aims to 'reorganise' mental health services, despite acknowledging the "strong opposition" of service users...
8 May 2013
Hotel nursery: When thousands of people are worrying about paying the bedroom tax, the Grosvenor House hotel in London has shown the way forward for the better off family...
1 May 2013
Fight to rebuild the NHS!: Unison's Health Care conference took place at a time of unprecedented attacks
24 April 2013
The Con-Dems' Health and Social Care Act (England) ends the government's duty to provide comprehensive free healthcare and removes the NHS from parliamentary control...
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