Roger Hutt, a Care UK striker, is clear about the Tories’ aims for the health service. “Our society is defined by how we look after the most vulnerable,” he said. “But this lot want to erode our NHS and the welfare state.”
Pathology staff at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, are set to be balloted to strike in a dispute over reduced staffing levels and patient safety.
Labour party leader Ed Miliband has said that he “relishes” the close fight with the Tories in the run-up to next year’s general election. Some polls now put Labour and the Tories only one point apart. This is after four years of devastating cuts by a government of millionaires regularly seen to be acting in the interest of millionaires.
The crisis over police corruption won’t go away. Revelations that a lorry-load of secret files detailing corruption was shredded have kept police chiefs in the spotlight. Former Met commissioners Lord Stevens and Lord Blair have been asked by the Home Affairs Select Committee how much they knew about the shredding.
Carole Duggan spoke at a meeting in King’s College London on her nephew Mark Duggan’s killing and the injustice of the system, on Friday of last week.
Around 70 people attended the meeting, where speakers also included author Paul Gilroy.
NUJ union members at the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health struck for an hour on Tuesday of this week after rejecting a
1 percent pay increase.
