Despite the freezing conditions, the warmth of support for nurses, part of the Royal College of Nurses (RCN) stood out as they took their historic first ever day of strike action in the UK. Iain Dalton, Leeds Socialist Party As the RCN branch secretary on the picket line reminded me, less than 30 years ago…
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…
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…
