by Bell Ribeiro-Addy | Mar 15, 2023 | Constituency Work, Streatham
It was great to be on the picket line with striking Streatham Job Centre Staff. They joined over 150,000 civil servants walking out on Budget Day to fight for fair pay and pensions, job security, better funding and respect from the government. Amid economic downturn...
by Bell Ribeiro-Addy | Jan 18, 2023 | Campaigns
I joined nurses on the picket line at King’s College Hospital as they entered their third day of strike action. A wealthy country like Britain should never be in a position where health professionals are so undervalued and our NHS is so underfunded that nurses...
by Bell Ribeiro-Addy | Jan 15, 2023 | Constituency Work, Streatham
I joined a local NHS strike fundraiser organised by the fantastic team at the White Lion pub. With over 270 people in attendance, they managed to raise over £2,000 from this event. It was great to get involved and see so many people standing with striking nurses,...
by Bell Ribeiro-Addy | Jan 11, 2023 | Campaigns
Imagine waiting hours for an ambulance when you suffer a potentially life-threatening stroke or heart attack. Imagine working as a paramedic facing another real terms pay cut in these conditions. That’s the reality of our NHS in Tory Britain in 2023. Over half of...
by Bell Ribeiro-Addy | Dec 20, 2022 | Campaigns
I joined nurses on the picket line at Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospital as they took part in four days of strike action. These strikes are about low pay but they are also about its consequences: falling standards of patient safety, which has been compromised...
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