Reports about the TUSC lobby from the Rotherham Advertiser and Rother FM
MORE than 3,000 people have signed a petition in protest at planned job losses at Rotherham Hospital.
Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust is planning to shed 750 jobs in a bid to save £50m over four years.
But the signatures protesting at the move to make Rotherham Hospital
smaller and with ‘substantially fewer beds’ have been collected by
campaigners from the Trade Unionists and Socialists Coalition, who
presented the petition to the trust’s council of governors this week.
Hundreds of nurses, therapists, clerical and technical staff and some
managers were then issued with “at risk of redundancy notices” in the
week before Christmas.
Many staff face pay cuts, some departments could be privatised and
three wards have been earmarked for closure in the cuts which the trust
says are necessary because of the economic downturn.
- Rotherham Advertiser 11/01/13
Three Thousand sign to try and stop cuts
A petition against cuts to hospital services in Rotherham will be handed to the Trust's Council of Governors today.
Three thousand signatures have been collected by the Rotherham Trade Unionists and Socialist Coalition.
500 jobs were put at risk at the hospital last year along with the closure of wards and cuts to services in a bid to save money.
- Rother FM 09/01/13
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