Industrial disputes round-up
Health bulletin for 1 May 2023
The fight goes on, but only rank and file control can overcome obstacles
AS WE go to press NHS managers and Health Minster Steve Barclay are dragging the largest NHS union, the Royal College of Nursing, before the High Court in a bid by to block nurses’ strike action due to start on the May Day weekend. They claimed that the strike mandate would be invalid from midnight […]
Health bulletin for 29 March 2023
The pay offer is an insult. Organise to fight for more.
IN A historic first, nurses in the RCN union, pushed to breaking point, have joined the strike wave against the cost of living crisis. And despite media attempts to probe for public disapproval, they have massive support. A million patients are treated in the NHS every 36 minutes, and they are overwhelmingly grateful to and […]
7.2 million people are on waiting lists for NHS treatment in England.
Editorial December-January 2022/23, No. 399
The government has picked a fight with nurses to hold public sector pay down and continue NHS privatisation.