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TORY NHS STUNT
by our labour movement correspondent
PRIME MINISTER Theresa May promised extra money for the cash-strapped NHS this week. But the proposed £20 billion boost was dismissed by Labour as yet another Tory stunt that would do little to tackle the long-term problems of the National Health Service
This was echoed by the Dave Prentis, the general secretary of UNISON, another giant union with 1.3 million members — nearly half of them working in health care in the NHS and for organisations providing NHS services in all four countries of the United Kingdom.
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TORY NHS STUNT
Grenfell victims remembered
by New Worker correspondent
LONDON fell silent last week as the capital paid tribute to the victims of one of the biggest fire tragedies in Britain since the Second World War — the fire that engulfed the Grenfell Tower high-rise apartment block. There was a 72-second silence, the release of white doves, and a solemn remembrance service at St Helens Church in North Kensington for the 72 people who died in the tragedy on 14th June 2017.
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Grenfell victims remembered