The £200,000-a-year chief executive of University Hospitals Leicester, John Adler, is planning to cut maternity services at Leicester General Hospital, so that care for “low-risk pregnancies only” may be delivered at the hospital. He says that a full maternity service is not viable in the future. Also, intensive care will be reduced from the three […]
Driving around for a parking place, you could sense that today was going to be different. There were picket lines everywhere! Changes are afoot in Leicester. Two ex Labour councillors, Wayne Naylor and Barbara Potter have joined TUSC and pledged to fight all cuts. In contrast to Labour mayor Pete Soulsby who is slashing services […]
Today was a proud day for Leicester as a thousand plus people came together in the centre of town to show their vocal opposition to the ongoing public sector pay freeze. Many thousands more workers from the region also took part in this industrial action, making a stellar contribution to today’s united effort that successfully […]
History was made in Leicester last night. At a packed meeting in the Town Hall, around forty people came together to welcome two councillors who recently resigned from the Labour Party to work in alliance with the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC). Councillors Barbara Potter (Humberstone/ Hamilton ward) and Wayne Naylor (Braunstone ward) voiced […]
On Friday 4 July UNITE members in 5 Argos distribution depots took their second day of strike action to oppose attacks on their terms and conditions. Management are trying to force through 12 changes, including compulsory changes to their shift pattern which will affect the work-life balance of workers, especially those with families. Some workers […]
In Leicester we’ve spent £4 million on the Richard III centre, with a grand total of 14 jobs created… for which 400 people applied. Our illustrious mayor finds this “fascinating” and reckons this is down to it being an “interesting place to work”, according to the Leicester Mercury. Well, maybe it will be… The new […]
By Alex Morgan, Assistant Branch Secretary, PCS HMRC Leicester branch HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) members in the Midlands were on strike on Thursday 26 June as part of our rolling regional week of action in the jobs and staffing campaign. HMRC are refusing to consult meaningfully with the union on massive job cuts and privatisation […]
We may not have had local elections in Leicester this year, but the need to provide a political alternative for working class people could not be more relevant. Leicester is run by a Labour-majority city council. People are paying the cost of the bedroom tax and losing vital children’s and community services, while millions have […]
Yesterday a successful meeting was organised by the Leicester Campaign Against NHS Privatization in the town centre to inform local residents about the ongoing attacks on the NHS. Critically, the meeting was convened to also consider what actions can be taken to safeguard public service values and the principles underpinning the NHS. The featured main […]
There was great support in the sunshine at Western Fire Station, New Parks, Leicester from local people this morning. The 24 hour action was the longest so far in this dispute, but one passer-by suggested that maybe they need to stay out for longer to force the government to listen. The pickets agreed, saying that […]
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