Anger at cuts as £500m NHS surplus found Union leaders today reacted angrily to the news that the NHS has underspent by £500m as a result of aggressive cuts imposed by Patricia Hewitt,…
NHS workers threaten summer strike A summer of discontent across the NHS in England and Wales was threatened yesterday by Unison, the public service union, in protest at a below…
Hospital cleaners stage walk out Cleaners and catering staff at a hospital in Neath, Wales, staged a 24-hour strike in protest yesterday at what they say is a decrease in working…
Key workers strike over single status The bitter dispute over single status is growing with more strike action being taken by the City Parking Attendants and members of support staff at Holbrook Primary School.
Coventry council strike intensifies Workers at Coventry Council, including school admissions officers and street cleaners began a two week strike today.
One-day national NHS strike Workers at the supply agency NHS Logistics have walked out on a symbolic one-day strike to protest the planned privatisation of the logistics…
Three day strike at Whipps Cross Hospital This week there was an escalation in the long running dispute betweeen cleaners, porters and switchboard staff, and their private employers at…
London: Hospital porters and cleaners on strike Porters, cleaners and switchboard staff employed by Rentokil Initial, based at Whipps Cross Hospital in East London, have been on strike since…
More NHS job cuts Another 1,000 jobs are to be axed in the health service, this time from the relatively new NHS Direct, bringing the total job losses across the sector to 13,000 over the past few months.
NHS job losses grow - as does opposition According to health union Unison nearly 7,000 job losses have now been announced across the NHS - with more to come.
UK: 1 million workers strike to defend pensions Tuesday 28th March 2006 saw over a million workers take part in the largest one day strike in Britain since the general strike of 1926.
1.5million set to strike today over pensions Workers across more than nine different unions are set to strike today over an attack on the local government pension scheme, with the Labour government planning to increase the age workers can retire at.
