That Was The Week That Was.
Wow! What a week we have had in London. UNISON disputes the imposition of a Rest Break Policy that hadn’t been jointly agreed within the LAS – and the Capital explodes in riots, looting and lawlessness! Now I am not saying there are any links between those two events but, if any of…
Management Rest Break Policy – A Dog’s Dinner.
If nothing changes between now and September, something will happen within our Service that has not happened for at least a decade.
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson – Skeletons In The Cupboard!
It is uncanny at times how things are linked in what we do, and also how true it is that we learn something new every day.
Pay More – Work Longer – Get Less.
I am writing this blog from the Unison National Delegate Conference in Manchester. Our Branch Delegation and myself (as a National Executive Council member) have faced three days of major debates and decisions concerning the destructive cuts agenda of the Coalition Government. It is no surprise that Pensions, and our position…
If It’s Not One Thing It’s Another
We shouldn’t forget that even in the midst of a national economic crisis, a potential hiving off of the NHS to privateers and opportunists, a planned pension robbery and, last but not least, poor innocent cucumbers around the world being falsely accused of death and destruction (when it was the sprouts all…
Cat And Bag
Surprise Surprise! The cat’s out of the bag (if it was ever in there in the first place).The Coalition’s mask has slipped further again regarding the future of the National Health Service if they get their way. As reported in the Sunday Press a senior adviser to David Cameron has said…
7th July 2005
The Coroner, Lady Justice Hallett, has delivered her verdict after the inquests into the London Bombings of 7th July 2005. The inquests started on 11th October 2010 and ended on 3rd March 2011. The verdict in each case of the 52 people who died was ‘unlawful killing’ with the medical cause of deaths…
The Politics Of Shock And Awe
I said in my last blog (April 14th) that the Coalition’s cuts were ‘Weapons of Mass Destruction’ and I make no apology here for carrying on with the war and demolition analogy. For that is what it is!
Coalition Cuts Are Weapons Of Mass Destruction
The carefully aimed Coalition Weapons Of Mass Destruction hit the London Ambulance Service this week. Talk about Heat Seeking Missiles: we have been hit by Health Seeking Missiles. Launched from Millionaires Row in Whitehall they have scored a direct hit. A successful public service targeted and the people of London used as…
Great Branch Great March Great Turnout
     It has been a very busy couple of weeks for the branch and our members. We had a great turnout for the demonstration on the 26th March. Over 60 members, family and friends joined us outside the London Ambulance Service Headquarters in Waterloo Road before…
