The Socialist 30 January 2013

NHS workers resist cuts

NHS workers resist cuts

Privatisation: Bleeding the NHS dry

Heatherwood hospital campaign shows determination

East Midlands: Campaign forces retreat on ambulance station closure

Life as an NHS worker: bullying and stress

Cameron takes a gamble by threatening EU referendum

Austerity's utter failure

Taxing words from Cameron?

Aaron Swartz: a fight to free information

Them & Us

Southampton councillors have a choice ... Don't vote for cuts!

Hull councillors ready to vote No

Brighton's Greens vote for cuts in workers' allowances

Labour meltdown in Stoke-on-Trent continues; and Unison withholds funding

Stop Sheffield children's centre closures

Twelfth day of strike action by Tyne and Wear metro cleaners

DfE strike ballot

London teachers call for strike action against Performance Related Pay

Workplace news in brief

Fired up by Fire in the Blood - a story of big business cruelty and neglect

Jumping through hoops for a job

Shrewsbury 24: What is the government hiding?

Wales conference - confidence in socialist ideas

Server appeal: Members provide a huge boost to our resources

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Brighton's Greens vote for cuts in workers' allowances

Brighton and Hove Socialist Party

Brighton and Hove council's policy and resources committee, on 24 January, proposed a review of allowances received by staff. These allowances frequently make up large parts of workers' wages.

£4,000 of a refuse worker's £17,000 annual salary is made up of these payments, according to the GMB trade union.

After the public gallery was cleared of angry bin workers for the vote, the Greens and Tories accepted the proposals.

Details will now be developed by a group of three council officers, while Green council leader Jason Kitkat made it clear they would impose the changes unilaterally if there was no agreement from the trade unions.

The next round of Brighton and Hove cuts is expected to reach £25 million.

A wave of anti-cuts feeling brought the Greens to power in Brighton and Hove in 2010. Why can't Green councillors stand up for the people who elected them?