By Karen Lockney Editorial note: All the statistics on the NHS can sometimes hide the intensely human side of a health service struggling to cope
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By Mark Langabeer (Hastings and Rye Labour member) Dispatches, Channel 4’s documentary programme (see here), recorded on the 7th Dec described the crises of confidence
David Cartwright, Unite union member, Glasgow All across the UK, over 600 workers employed by the housing and homeless charity Shelter are in the middle
By Andy Warnock-Smith, RMT member The Rail Delivery Group (RDG) representing train operating companies tabled an insulting offer of 4% for 2022 and 4% for
By John Pickard There are few things in life more irritating than having to endure crap Christmas music in every single shop you go into
Editorial: Chester by-election goes unreported
The by-election in the parliamentary constituency of Chester last Thursday went largely unreported by the media. But it resulted in a big increase in the
By Andy Ford, Unite NHS rep By taking strike action in defence of their wages and condition, ambulance crews and NHS staff in general are
By a Liverpool docker The strike of the dockers in Liverpool, working for Peel Ports, achieved a wage rise that is above inflation and it
By John Pickard The headline in the Daily Express this week – “Less than half the population is Christian” – was an example of dog-whistle
By Gray Allen, Falkirk Labour member Last Wednesday the UK Supreme Court stymied the attempt by the SNP to find a legal road to a
