Health
Profit From Illness—how PFI schemes are still draining millions from the NHS
31 August 2017As the Tories slash the health service, eight multinational corporations are leaching millions in profits from the NHS.
Barts health dispute at critical stage
22 August 2017The fight by outsourced health workers in east London against multinational Serco is at a critical stage.
Striking workers protest against bosses in London as pay fights hot up
03 August 2017Chants of “low pay—no way” rang out in the City of London financial district today, Thursday, as workers from three disputes took to the streets.
Big care firms grab a subsidy from the Tories while workers get paid peanuts
01 August 2017The Tory government confirmed it will “temporarily suspend” enforcement of minimum wage rules for big care firms last week, following corporate lobbying. And it has potentially handed them a huge subsidy.
Striking Barts hospital workers say Serco’s latest offer is an insult to low-paid workers
25 July 2017Hundreds 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
17 July 2017With a possible inquiry on the way, contaminated blood scandal victims spoke to Sadie Robinson
Hundreds of striking Barts health workers join march in London
15 July 2017Hundreds 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
13 July 2017Striking 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
11 July 2017Support 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
10 July 2017Low-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
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