UK: A Promising Hospital Strike Since the Spring of this year in several London hospitals about 750 cleaners, security personnel and porters have been in dispute with their…
St Bart's Hospital strike continues More than 700 cleaners, porters, and security staff at Barts NHS Trust in London are nearing the end of a 7 day strike for a pay increase of 30p…
London Hospital Workers Strike over Low Pay Hundreds of domestic workers in four London hospitals are on strike to demand a 30p pay raise.
Secret Handshakes and Health Care in Australia A booklet published by The Grand United Order of Oddfellows telling the story of how health services spread around Australia through the 'lodge…
2007: Chad Government Employees Strike An account of the general srike of public sector workers in Chad.
St Mary's Hospital (Harrow Road) work-in and occupation 1981 Contemporary information about workers at a London hospital taking over their workplace in protest…
What's at stake in the health care debate? The debate in the United States over how to provide health care to a nation increasingly burdened by the costs and dissatisfied with the status…
Muting the SWAN: a radical alternative to Trotskyist social work Critique of the Social Work Action Network, a group aiming to bring social workers and other…
Occupational hazards A compilation of writings put together by Past Tense on hospital occupations and work-ins in the UK from the 1970s to the 1990s.
The Mental Patients Union, 1973 Historical information about the Mental Patients Union, formed in London in 1973 to oppose psychiatric oppression, compiled by Past Tense.
NHS on the brink? A nurse's view on the March 4th demonstration and where the NHS is heading On March 4th, around 250,000 NHS workers, patient activists, union members and…
Interview with the Health Sector Workers Network (Aotearoa/New Zealand) Recomposition interview with members of the Health Sector Workers Network in Aotearoa/New Zealand…