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26 September 2018
Victory for Sheffield Save Our NHS
On 20 September, Sheffield Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) agreed to keep the minor injuries unit, walk-in centre and eye centre in their present form for at least another two years. This was welcomed as a victory
22 August 2018
Short reports on some of the latest trade union struggles including Sheffield Supertram workers win and Woolwich ferry workers strike.
25 July 2018
Sheffield tram workers strike for 72 hours
Sheffield Supertram drivers and conductors, members of Unite the Union, took 72 hours' further strike action in pursuit of their pay claim on 20-22 July.
9 July 2018
Tram workers strike against 'derisory' pay offer
"Liberating" is how one Unite member described his first day on strike
27 June 2018
Blairite cuts and restructures make social work dangerous
In Sheffield 'money-saving changes' the Blairite council is making are like a wrecking ball destroying a building when none of the occupants have been evacuated
20 June 2018
Orgreave - no justice, no peace
On the outskirts of Sheffield on Saturday 16 June, around 300 people assembled under the banners of the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign (OTJC); insisting that the government hold a full public inquiry into the events at Orgreave 34 years ago
13 June 2018
Sheffield Labour council "happy" to jail trees protesters
Since the new year there have been over 20 arrests of campaigners fighting privatisation-driven tree felling, for more and more farcical reasons
23 May 2018
Sheffield Pride organisers defeated in attempt to ban politics
Organisers of Sheffield Pride have sparked criticism of the event after calling Pride a "celebration, not a protest."
25 April 2018
Sheffield and South Yorkshire: no to closures - defend our NHS
In the eight years of Tory-led governments, 95 NHS walk-in centres have been closed - 40% of the original number
11 April 2018
Save our NHS candidate contesting South Yorkshire mayor election
Pointless. The election of a South Yorkshire metro mayor in May, at the cost of £1 million, is set to be one of the most pointless polls ever
29 March 2018
Sheffield tree fellings paused as bully Labour council feels pressure
Axe PFI, not trees: On the BBC a journalist suggested the Labour council had finally caved in to pressure and was willing to open meaningful negotiations
7 March 2018
Years of fees, cuts and marketisation have created an army of low-paid and casualised workers
1 March 2018
National lecturers' pension strike continues
Students have been actively supporting the strikes of UCU members
31 January 2018
8,000 strong petition opposes closure of Sheffield health services
Socialist Party members took part as over 8,000 signatures on petitions were presented by Sheffield Save Our NHS, Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition and Labour Party members against the proposed closure of the minor injuries unit at Hallamshire hospital and the walk-in centre in Sheffield to a meeting of the clinical commissioning group (CCG).
6 December 2017
Members of the National Education Union (NEU) went on strike today (6.12.17) at Westways primary school in Sheffield
16 November 2017
Sheffield Eastern Ave Job Centre strike ends
Applauded by supporters, PCS members marched back to work at Sheffield's Eastern Avenue Job Centre ahead of its closure
8 November 2017
Sheffield trees campaigner sentenced to prison
Sheffield trees campaigner Calvin Payne was sentenced to three months in prison, suspended for one year, for peaceful protest
3 November 2017
Orgreave campaigners' Halloween 'Death of Justice' march
Chants of "by Amber Rudd and Theresa May, justice was killed a year to the day!" reverberated around the streets of Sheffield on Halloween night
18 October 2017
Sheffield Labour council threatens peaceful protesters with prison
Two months have passed since Sheffield's Labour council won a High Court injunction against peaceful protesters fighting the felling of thousands of street trees in the city.
11 October 2017
Join the Orgreave Halloween rally
The Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign has called for our supporters to gather in their hundreds this Halloween night (31 October) in Sheffield.
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