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14 September 2011
Surrey County Council has threatened that another nine libraries will close if their local communities do not step forward and take them over with volunteers, writes Paul Couchman, Surrey County Unison branch secretary (personal capacity).
3 August 2011
Action to save our libraries: Planned strike action by Lambeth libraries staff for 22 July was postponed as the council management conceded that there will be no compulsory redundancies, writes Andy Tullis, Lambeth Unison.
28 July 2011
Surrey Library lobby a huge success
The Women's Institute joined 'Friends' groups, Library action groups, trade unionists and community anti-cuts campaigners on a mass lobby of Surrey County Council (SCC) on 26th July...
15 June 2011
The leafy lanes of Surrey will reverberate to the chant "hands off our pensions" on 30 June, writes Paul Couchman, Save Our Services in Surrey.
16 February 2011
Action across the country - fighting all council cuts
Around 80 protesters gathered outside the Leeds council executive meeting on Friday 11 February to protest against the planned loss of around 3,000 jobs and cuts to mental health and leisure services in the city...
15 December 2010
Fighting back against council cuts
Manchester: North West Shop Stewards Network (NWSSN) supporters working and living in Manchester lobbied outside the Manchester city council meeting on Wednesday 8 December, and received a great response from council workers and passers-by...
Paul Couchman, Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition candidate for Spelthorne
21 April 2010
Spelthorne: "The trade union candidate guy"
AS THE Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition Candidate for Spelthorne in Surrey, I delivered our 43,800 election leaflets to the Royal Mail last week, writes Paul Couchman.
31 March 2010
Council cuts: Grim Reaper moving to Surrey
"WE'VE REACHED a point now where fire crews are turning up at scenes of emergency and having to tell the public that we cannot make a rescue because we have to wait for more staff to turn up...
17 March 2010
THE JUGGERNAUT of cuts and closures is already being felt in Surrey, which people usually see as a place of leafy suburbs and stockbrokers, writes Paul Couchman, Save Our Services in Surrey (personal capacity).
17 February 2010
TUSC to fight cuts in Spelthorne
"I will refuse to take any more salary than I currently earn, if elected, and I will publish details of my salary and expenses online for my constituents to see, examine and to hold me to account as their representative", writes North Surrey Socialist Party.
18 November 2009
Save Ashford further education
Students and staff at Brooklands college Ashford site in Surrey, previously Spelthorne college, received the shocking news last week that the Ashford college is to close next year...
12 August 2009
Surrey council must buy back these homes now!
The above headline was the unanimous message from the 40 plus people who attended a public meeting on 5 August...
22 July 2009
Following on from a series of meetings, the Elmbridge Care Homes Campaign is hosting a public meeting to put the case for the nationalisation of three care homes in the Elmbridge area of Surrey...
4 March 2008
A DEVASTATING outbreak of the 'superbug' clostridium difficile at Stoke Mandeville hospital in Buckinghamshire between 2003 and 2005 killed 33 patients with another 334 patients becoming seriously ill....
8 March 2007
NHS: First priority - a national demonstration
Unison and RCN lobby of parliament in 2006, photo Paul Mattsson |
7 December 2006
Chertsey: "NOT EITHER but Neither" is the slogan of the NHS Together campaign to save NHS services at St Peters (Chertsey) and Royal Surrey County Hospital (Guildford)...
7 December 2006
UP TO 1,000 members of UNISON, from social services, schools, libraries and offices across Surrey, took strike action on 30 November as part of their fight for a 4% pay increase....
29 November 2006
Fighting and striking, on all fronts
Surrey UNISON: UNISON MEMBERS working for Surrey County Council (SCC) are striking on 30 November, over pay. This involves around 4,000 workers. ...
5 October 2006
Marching to stop cuts and sell-offs
NHS SOS: "A MATTER of Life and Death", handwritten on a placard. That summed up the message of the 30 September march and rally against the panic cuts and eventual downgrading of hospital services in Epsom, Surrey, writes Nick Kirk Reading Socialist Party and Surrey County UNISON branch.
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