Thursday 25 August was the latest day of strike action by BMA consultants as a result of continuous real-terms pay cuts. The BMA cited a more than 33% reduction of pay over the past 14 years. John Tival, Leeds Socialist Party Members of the Socialist Party joined the picket line at Leeds General Infirmary (LGI)…
On 20th July, Consultants organised in the BMA became the latest group of NHS workers to join the strike wave. Like other NHS workers they have seen a big decline in real terms pay over the last fifteen years which the current high rate of inflation is compounding. Iain Dalton, Leeds Socialist Party Many consultants…
Within just a few minutes of being on the junior doctors picket lines in Leeds you could tell the level of public support they had. Not only were cars tooting their horns as they passed, but a video screen van parked up next to the picket with a supportive message which no-one from the BMA…
Over 100 people joined a demonstration on Saturday28 Jan called by Keep Our NHS Public to protest at the NHS funding crisis. We were across the road from the site of the proposed new Leeds Children’s Hospital, one of those in the Tories 2019 manifesto and one of the new 48 hospitals promised by Boris Johnson when…
Well over a hundred of Junior Doctors picketed the two main hospitals in Leeds, St James’s and the Leeds General Infirmary. Pickets were angry, especially over the insinuation that they’re lazy which the media had been stirring over the past few days. One doctor told me how he was often staying late and starting early…
