Thousands of junior doctors strike across Punjab
Submitted by umarbajwa on Aug 15 2017 07:40
Members of the Young Doctors Association (YDA) are on strike across the Punjab province of Pakistan.
Hospital workers continue striking for fairer pay
Submitted by Ramona on Aug 11 2017 09:56
Workers at St Barts hospital trust in London are set to continue one of the largest ever hospital strikes in the UK.
UK: A Promising Hospital Strike
Submitted by Fredo Corvo on Aug 6 2017 20:35
Since the Spring of this year in several London hospitals about 750 cleaners, security personnel and porters have been in dispute with their employer, Serco. They are part of the lowest paid workers in the U.K.
St Bart's Hospital strike continues
Submitted by Ramona on Jul 17 2017 13:40
More than 700 cleaners, porters, and security staff at Barts NHS Trust in London are nearing the end of a 7 day strike for a pay increase of 30p per hour, for shorter hours, and against management bullying.
London Hospital Workers Strike over Low Pay
Submitted by RSBenedict on Jul 14 2017 04:52
Hundreds of domestic workers in four London hospitals are on strike to demand a 30p pay raise.
Secret Handshakes and Health Care in Australia
Submitted by Fluffy on Jul 3 2017 21:02
A booklet published by The Grand United Order of Oddfellows telling the story of how health services spread around Australia through the 'lodge network' and enabled working people to insure themselves against sickness, death and unemployment.
2007: Chad Government Employees Strike
Submitted by Reddebrek on Jun 27 2017 10:32
An account of the general srike of public sector workers in Chad.
St Mary's Hospital (Harrow Road) work-in and occupation 1981
Submitted by Steven. on Jun 26 2017 11:53
Contemporary information about workers at a London hospital taking over their workplace in protest at bed cuts and closure.
What's at stake in the health care debate?
Submitted by s.nappalos on May 5 2017 18:19
The debate in the United States over how to provide health care to a nation increasingly burdened by the costs and dissatisfied with the status quo has returned with a vengeance. S Nicholas Nappalos comes at these issues as a nurse and organizer, and tries to unpack the implications of the growing health crisis, what alternatives we really have, and what health for-and-by workers and the community could look like.
Muting the SWAN: a radical alternative to Trotskyist social work
Critique of the Social Work Action Network, a group aiming to bring social workers and other interested parties together to campaign against austerity, by an angry social worker. SWAN's activism happens in the classroom or on the streets, but not in the workplace itself.
