In the name of deregulation, the Tories have continued their real agenda to attack H&S protection for workers. There seems to be collective amnesia amongst these ladies and gents to the struggles workers have waged in the past to improve working conditions and building safer workplaces. In...
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Tigmoo on 12th Oct 2008 (via ian1961.blogspot.com)
Department of Health launches consultation to lift ban on HIV-positive health workers that has been in place for 20 years.
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Telegraph on 1st Dec 2011 (via telegraph.feedsportal.com)
Health workers in the NHS received a poke in the eye today when the Pay Review Body refused to re-open pay discussions on the 2008-10, 3 year pay cut for health workers. Earlier this year UNISONs SGE had voted overwhelmingly to re-open negotiations after inflation continued to rise. Both UNISON and...
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Tigmoo on 18th Dec 2008 (via johnmcdsunionblog.blogspot.com)
The Tories today rolled out the first section of their manifesto this morning, the chapter on health. The reason the Tories started with their plans for the NHS, as they did when setting out their priorities for government last autumn, is quite simple: the leadership thinks that every time Cameron talks about health the party goes up in the polls. Certainly, one of the achievements of Cameron̵...
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Spectator on 4th Jan 2010 (via spectator.co.uk)
Will the health unions accept or reject the pay freeze and ‘no compulsory redundancy’ proposal? What will be the consequences of their decision? From The demand of the NHS management for health workers to accept a 2 year freeze of wages and incremental increases (under the ‘Agenda for Change’ agreement) is a crude attempt at moral
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SocialistUnity on 23rd Dec 2010 (via socialistunity.com)
The health ministry will be renamed the department for public health if the Conservatives win the election, with earmarked budgets for illness prevention and health improvement
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FT on 13th Jan 2010 (via traxfer.ft.com)
Local health-care workers are to be offered voluntary redundancy and early retirement packages to save the health service money
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BBCPolitics on 27th Oct 2011 (via bbc.co.uk)
More than five hundred health workers have been vaccinated against smallpox enabling them to deal with a biological terror attack at this year's Olympics.
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Telegraph on 1st Jan 2012 (via telegraph.feedsportal.com)
Recruitment of foreign healthcare workers by employers in rich nations is undermining efforts to fight disease in the developing world, a World Health Organisation official warns
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FT on 4th Aug 2008 (via ft.com)
Unite’s press release is below. Our ballot for industrial action, including strike action, starts on 28th October. Unite has over 100,000 members in Health, in some key occupational groups. Strike action by Unite can have a real impact. An obvious point to make, but all health workers have...
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Tigmoo on 3rd Oct 2008 (via gillgeorge.wordpress.com)
From SOLIDARITY Magazine This is a letter from UNITE NEC Health Sector members Gill George and Frank Wood to UNITE health workers. Since its distribution it has been adopted as UNITE policy. Dear Colleague We are writing to explain clearly our absolute opposition to the ‘Enabling Agreement’ being proposed by the NHS Employers. In our view (shared by
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SocialistUnity on 9th Jan 2011 (via socialistunity.com)
