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War damages health...and the Health Service: health workers and the 1991 Gulf war - Practical History
Detailed account of the impact of the 1991 Gulf War on the health service in Britain, including anti-war leaflets produced by health workers and a brief account of the impact of the war on health in Iraq.
Clearly the main effects of the Gulf War were felt by people living in the Middle East war zone. Nevertheless our rulers can only successfully wage war abroad by attacking at home the people who are expected to pay for it (and have most to lose from it): the working class.
Wildcats on the ambulances
Leaflet produced in response to a 1990 dispute amongst National Health Service ambulance workers. They were trying to prevent a restructuring of the ambulance service
The beginning of wildcat strikes of ambulance crews on the 11th January shows a great strengthening of the ambulance crews’ fight. Before this date the dispute had been largely managed by the union structures (and this despite the fact that the unions originally recommended acceptance of the managements’ first offer!).
The ambulance dispute - Anarchist Communist Federation
Leaflet produced in response to a 1989 dispute amongst National Health Service ambulance workers, who were trying to prevent a restructuring of the ambulance service.
Despite the government continually proclaiming its non-intervention in trade disputes, with the Ambulance dispute, we once again have a fight against the government’s unofficial pay policy. BR, LRT, Nurses have all been in dispute over the same issue. The government’s attacks have been carefully planned so that workers fightback has been kept divided.
Unite NHS workers vote for strike action
Thousands of NHS workers, including mental health nurses, paramedics and ambulance staff, have voted to strike in protest at a derisory pay deal.
Unite, which balloted 77, 000 workers, said there was a 3-1 vote in favour of industrial action, with just over half backing walkouts. The union said industrial action would start before Christmas although officials would not decide until later this week what form the action will take.
NHS workers balloting for industrial action
Thousands of members of the Unite union working in the National Health Service are being asked if they will take action, including strike action over a three-year below inflation pay offer.
After the ballot closes on 12 November, Unite will have a 28-day 'window' to take action that its members have voted for.
Foundation trusts: a guide for NHS workers
An examination of NHS reforms, what they mean and how health workers can resist them.
We all know that the NHS is undergoing a period of 'reform', but what is actually happening? And what does this mean for those of us who work within the NHS?
NHS Notional Health Service - The great health and social care swindle
An in-depth look at NHS, the state it is in and what we can do about it.
Most of us at some point in our lives will use Health and Social care services, be they NHS, Local Authority, or private sector. Many of us also will be only too aware of the major funding crisis that exists, threatening many of the basic services we have taken for granted in the past.
NHS Unite members reject pay offer
Members of Unite, the UK's largest trade union and third largest in the NHS, have overwhelmingly voted to reject the government's 7.99% three-year pay deal and have voted for a ballot on industrial action.
Not long after the rejection of a pay deal by NHS workers in the GMB, 94.8% of Unite's health sector workers - including health visitors, hospital pharmacists, health care chaplains and members in many other health care professions and support services voted to turn down the three year offer worth less than 8%.
NHS strike looms as GMB reject pay deal
A threat of industrial action across the NHS intensified yesterday when health workers in the GMB union voted by an overwhelming majority to reject the three-year pay deal offered by the government.
If their decision is confirmed by the 450,000 NHS workers in Unison next week, the government may be forced to abandon its attempt to reach a long-term settlement.
UNISON to recommend pay cuts for health workers
Public sector union UNISON looks set to rubber stamp a three-year package of pay cuts for workers in the NHS.
Following a proposal of three years of sub-inflationary pay rises UNISON Head of Health, Karen Jennings, said that she would be "asking our executive to consider recommending this deal to members as a well-balanced package"
The proposed deal gives 2.75% in the first year.
In year 2 it gives 2.54%. Those on the lowest point will receive an increase of 5.7%.
