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14 August 2019
Health workers strike against £2,000 loss of pay
Health visitors in Lincolnshire have been on strike against the Tory county council.
17 July 2019
Health visitors strike for the first time ever
Health visitors in Lincolnshire believe theirs is the first health visitors' strike anywhere in the country. The 58 specialist nurses, members of Unite the Union, voted for action by an 84% majority.
8 January 2018
RMT rail members buoyed by coordinated action
RMT members across five train companies are striking
18 October 2017
An NHS 'uprising' took place in Grantham, Lincolnshire, on Saturday 14 October! A determined 800-strong demonstration wound its way through the town. People are fighting against the night time closure of Grantham A&E and the systematic downgrading of services in their local hospital.
23 August 2017
Opposing the National Front in Grantham
Even with a national mobilisation, the National Front could only muster around 30 supporters
5 April 2017
Yorkshire marches to save the NHS
Placards from Huddersfield and Lincolnshire joined students, doctors and nurses in filling up Leeds on 1 April, writes Tanis Belsham-Wray, Leeds Socialist Party.
26 October 2016
Protest and strike to save our NHS
Glenfield congenital heart centre in Leicester is the only such service in the East Midlands
28 September 2016
Washdyke v Shoreline: the housing battle in Immingham
More than 60 residents from the Washdyke flats estate made the short journey to the Immingham resource centre to voice their objection to the demolition of their homes by Shoreline, the housing association that North-East Lincolnshire Labour council has outsourced social housing to.
7 September 2016
On the march against 'life and death' NHS cuts
The sudden closure of Grantham Hospital's night time A&E service has sparked a wave of anger and rebellion
19 August 2016
Immingham residents' housing battle
Hundreds of residents of the Washdyke estate were shocked at plans to demolish their homes.
20 April 2016
Increasing anger at cuts boosts Grimsby campaign
The 2016 local elections will be the fourth the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition has contested in Grimsby and we've gained experience from each one. It's clear that the mood is changing and anger at the government and local councillors doing the government's dirty work is increasing.
2 September 2015
Lincolnshire: save our schools!
Around 300 angry people attended a meeting in Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire recently, opposing proposals to close the town's main school.
19 August 2015
TUSC by-election boost in Grimsby and Cleethorpes
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) candidate Dave Mitchell won 4.1% in a council by-election in Cleethorpes. This was up on 1.8% in the last election.
8 July 2015
Short reports on some of the latest trade union struggles.
A PCS picket in Manchester, 15.10.14, photo Alex Davidson
15 October 2014
PCS members again show anti-austerity determination
Civil servants in the PCS union were out on strike in force, part of the rolling programme of strikes planned for this week
9 July 2014
Why I joined the Socialist Party
I have been searching for an alternative to the pro-austerity parties. After three long years I've finally found it, writes Kieran Yeoman, Grimsby/Scunthorpe Socialist Party.
4 December 2013
Civil service union calls for an end to violence in Jobcentres
A PCS union branch in Lincolnshire has appealed for an end to violence in local Jobcentres after a man was arrested following an incident involving a meat cleaver
2 October 2013
Lincoln: 400 march against Library cuts
Around 400 protesters marched in Lincoln on Saturday 21 September to save 32 Lincolnshire libraries from closure
17 July 2013
Lincolnshire - save our libraries
Legendary US broadcaster Walter Cronkite once said that "whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation", writes Nick Parker.
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