Health
Striking Barts hospital workers say Serco’s latest offer is an insult to low-paid workers
Hundreds of domestics, cleaners, porters and security workers began a two-week strike at four east London hospitals on Tuesday.
Victims speak out over contaminated blood agony - and call for justice
With a possible inquiry on the way, contaminated blood scandal victims spoke to Sadie Robinson
Hundreds of striking Barts health workers join march in London
Hundreds of NHS workers start a new strike on 25 July. Recently they held a powerful march
Buoyant mood on the Barts health picket lines as strikers win support
Striking east London health workers have spoken about the big support they’ve received in their fight against low pay.
East London hospital workers begin a week-long walkout against Serco bosses
Support is growing for east London hospital workers taking on multinational outsourcing giant Serco as they launched a week-long walkout today, Tuesday.
Fed up and fighting back - the health workers defying multinational Serco
Low-paid and migrant workers are at the sharp end of cuts and privatisation in the NHS. They face rocketing workloads and bullying bosses. But across north east London 1,000 porters, domestics and cleaners are taking on a multinational to demand higher pay—and showing how to fight, reports Tomáš Tengely-Evans
Low-paid hospital workers strike to raise wages
04 July 20171,000 mainly migrant health workers in east London launched a three-day walkout
St Barts hospital cleaners launch bold programme of strikes for more pay
27 June 2017Around 1,000 outsourced hospital cleaners in east London are planning a programme of hard-hitting action against multinational Serco.
Royal College of Nursing announces a "summer of protest" over public sector pay cap
16 May 2017The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) announces a “summer of protest” over the Tories’ 1 percent pay cap.
Health workers in east London get organised at work to take on the racists
09 May 2017Health workers in east London are organising to take the fight against racism into their workplaces.
US Republicans lead the assault on healthcare with new repeal bill
09 May 2017Donald Trump’s US government is pushing through healthcare attacks, but mobilising on the streets can beat them back, reports Alistair Farrow
Hospitals - Tories’ racist message to migrants is, keep out
02 May 2017One hospital is giving out leaflets telling patients without the right papers to pay up or risk being kicked out of Britain. Dave Sewell continues our investigation into the racist clampdown in the NHS
Theresa May is a “bloody liar” says Sybil after Corbyn reads out her NHS question
02 May 2017A pensioner whose fears about going into hospital were ridiculed by Theresa May has slammed the Tory leader as a “bloody liar”.
Labour is right on the NHS pay cap - now get the fat cats out of the health service
02 May 2017Labour has pledged today, Wednesday, to scrap the Tories’ 1 percent pay cap for tens of thousands of health workers.
Unison health conference delegates say - action needed now to defend the NHS
25 April 2017The union leadership’s failure to produce enough resistance to the Tory assault on the NHS defined Unison’s health conference in Liverpool this week.
Racist rules refuse NHS care to thousands of people due to their immigration status
18 April 2017Cruel immigration checks are putting vulnerable people off seeking the health care they need, writes Dave Sewell
'We need to take fight to the Tories', leading Unison union health worker speaks out
13 April 2017We talk about how terrible the crisis in the NHS and social care is, but it’s significantly worse now than it has ever been.
Industrial round-up - Nurses consider walkouts against Tory pay cap
11 April 2017Nurses consider action over pay cap, Scottish lecturers back strikes, walkouts on at BMW and Woolwich Ferry, social workers want strikes in Kirklees
Unofficial action by migrant workers at London hospital beats back multinational
11 April 2017Low paid migrant workers at an east London hospital have beat back privatising bosses with unofficial action. Now they’re raring to fight for more.
Up to 5,000 march in Leeds against Tory health attacks
04 April 2017Up to 5,000 people marched through Leeds today, Saturday, to say “save our NHS” and oppose the Tories' cuts and privatisation of the health service.
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- 'Scrap the cap!' - Royal College of Nursing begins protests over public sector pay cap
- Grenfell Tower survivors ask, ‘Can we trust the legal system?’
- Victory for unions and workers over fees that denied access to justice
- The horror of Passchendaele couldn’t stop rebellion
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