More than 230,000 patients waited over four hours to be seen by medical staff at A&Es in the last three months of 2012.
Stan Hardy gave evidence to MPs on the Scottish Affairs Select Committee’s blacklisting investigation last week.
Tenants and campaigners are organising across Britain against Tory attacks on benefits.
Any disabled person capable of walking a measly 20 metres is set to lose their mobility payments when the Tories scrap the disability living allowance (DLA) on 1 April.
Pensioners sat in at London’s South Bank Centre on Wednesday of last week to highlight the plight of elderly people grappling with fuel costs.
Around 2,000 people marched through Newcastle on Saturday of last week against massive cuts to services.
A Unison union survey of 14,000 council workers showed most are being affected by job losses, increased workload and stress.
The ballot of some 250,000 civil service workers in the PCS union for industrial action is heating up.
One Billion Rising, a global day of action in protest at violence against women and girls, took place on Thursday of last week.
Blacklisted engineering worker Jerry Hicks was set to be confirmed as a candidate in the Unite union’s general secretary election on Friday of this week.
Pilot launch crews on the Liverpool docks are furious over attacks on their conditions from Peel Port bosses.
Unison women’s conference took place in Liverpool between Thursday and Saturday of last week.
