Leeds TUC organised a successful anti-austerity conference on Saturday 24th November. Kevin Pattison, Leeds TUC Vice-President It is part of our campaign to show the damage austerity is doing to local services, and to raise alternatives. We started with reports from groups affected by austerity Fearnville Fields – succesful campaign to save playing fields DEAL…
Campaigners from local groups involved in Health Campaigns Together gathered outside Leeds Town Hall on Wednesday 22nd August to protest plans to remove 17 treatments from the NHS outside one of the consultation events on these proposals. Iain Dalton, Leeds Socialist Party These have been dubbed ‘unneccessary’ by NHS England, who wish to take away…
Campaigners had a big reason to be cheerful at the events marking 70th anniversary of the NHS in Leeds, as the Trust at Leeds Teaching Hospitals had announced that they “will not be transferring any staff into a Wholly-owned Subsidiary during the financial year to March 2019.” Iain Dalton, Leeds Socialist Party This is now…
We want to stay ‘100% NHS’! That’s the message from workers at Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust who are currently balloting for strike action alongside 3 other West Yorkshire Trusts over plans to transfer them into a ‘Wholly-owned Subsidiary’ (WOS). Iain Dalton, Leeds Socialist Party Around 40 hospital staff and supporters took part in a protest…
What do a group of people dressed as ‘Maybots’, a mock trident missile and a samba band have in common? They were all part of lively and noisy march through Leeds City Centre in anger at the Tory cutbacks to the NHS. Iain Dalton, Leeds Socialist Party Around 1,500 people joined the Yorkshire March for…
At a special meeting of the Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust board on Thursday 29th March, took a decision to delay becoming the fifth NHS Trust in Yorkshire to establish it’s own private company to transfer support staff into. Iain Dalton, Leeds Socialist Party Barnsley, Airedale, Harrogate and just recently York NHS Trusts have all…
Despite yet another dismal winter saturday drizzle, around 150 people joined the protest outside the Leeds General Infirmary, as part of the 3rd February national day of action over the winter NHS crisis. Iain Dalton, Leeds Socialist Party In the absence of major unions, or Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, calling for a mass turnout for…
Around 150 delegates crowded into the first and very successful Health Campaigns Together northern conference held in Leeds on 20 January. Almost 30 active campaign groups were represented from Leicester to Liverpool and Newcastle. Mike Forster, Health Campaigns Together vice chair (personal capacity) Instead of numerous platform speakers, we invited each region to share their…
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…
