By Andy Ford, Unite NHS rep. “Power in a Union” is not a headline you see very often in Health Service Journal, the magazine aimed at NHS
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By John Pickard, President, mid-Essex NUT, personal capacity. A letter from joint general secretaries, Mary Bousted and Kevin Courtney has gone out to all members
By John Pickard, Brentwood and Ongar Labour Party, personal capacity All the hype and publicity in advance of Phillip Hammond’s budget was about an ‘end
By Harry Hutchinson, Labour Party Northern Ireland. Billed as the biggest equal pay strike since the 1970 Equal Pay Act, 8000 mostly female workers went
By Roger Silverman, West Ham Labour Party As a contribution to a discussion on the direction of British politics in the current Brexit morass, we
By Steve Jones, Communications Workers’ Union With Steve’s permission, we reproduce here a transcript of his very moving speech at the Labour Party conference last
By Andy Ford, NHS Union rep A rash of strikes across the NHS this summer has succeeded in pushing back against the Tory government’s latest
By Mark Bygrave, Witham Constituency Labour Party, personal capacity East Suffolk & North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT), in their infinite wisdom and tradition of
By John Pickard, Brentwood CLP delegate, personal capacity Before dealing with the agenda of day 3, it is worth noting the detailed voting figures for
By John Pickard, Brentwood CLP delegate, personal capacity The main business of the conference on the second day was the consideration of resolutions on some