Cost Of Living Coalition Belfast

Our Cailín McCaffery sends solidarity to striking health workers. Urges the public to join them on the picket lines and to raise their voices to #DefendtheNHS

Damien Maguire, NIPSA Joint Secretary for Belfast Trust, the NHS "meltdown" both in hospitals and in community care. Direct result of austerity. Private sector cannot address the shortfalls in the health system. We need a ln injection of cash for the NHS #DefendtheNHS

The strikes are about patient safety first, he says. Patient safety is ensured by the unions when they strike through derogation in key areas. The Tory government is refusing to negotiate or to discuss pay - workers have no choice but to strike.

Patients are flooding into hospital, but there is nowhere for them to go. Many are consigned to corridors.

NHS nurse Mohammed Samaana outlines the fact that politicians at both Westminster AND Stormont have presided over pay disparity for health workers in the North. #DefendtheNHS

Up to 40% of Junior Doctors contemplate leaving the NHS. Low pay, impossible work - This is unsustainable. #DefendtheNHS.

Student doctor Aoife Bannon says Junior Doctors are paid just over £13 per hour despite unbearable and mounting workloads. NHS doctors have faced real terms pay cuts of over 25% . #DefendtheNHS

Conor McCarthy, Branch Secretary of UNISON RVH & Muckamore, tells us Belfast Trust private agency spend will top £100m this year. Pay NHS staff what they're worth - the money is there. #DefendtheNHS

📣TODAY - Defend the NHS📣 Public meeting kicking off at 6pm this evening. Let's get behind our health workers who are preparing to strike. The NHS is at stake ✊

📣 Public meeting tomorrow - Defend the NHS📣 Our NHS is under attack - come along tomorrow night hear from health workers who are leading the fight back ✊ 2 Royal Avenue, 6pm!

Leaflets arrived for our public meeting in support of striking health workers. If you want to help spread the word then please get in touch! More importantly, come along on Tuesday (24th) to hear health workers outline their fight for the future of the NHS. @ 2 Royal Avenue, 6pm.

Health workers are striking to defend the NHS from a Tory government intent on its ruin. Join striking health workers next week to discuss the fight for fair pay, safe staffing and for the future of the NHS. 2 Royal Avenue (Former Tesco Building, 24 January, 6pm.

Thanks to everyone who has donated to, or shared, our workers' strike fundraiser. Postal workers out tomorrow, health workers out in January, and Housing Executive maintenance workers have heroically been out for months now. We support their fight! gofundme.com/f/support-for-…

Health workers, posties, Housing Executive workers, university workers and more have taken action in the face of this cost-of-living crisis - they deserve our support and solidarity. This is a difficult time, so we are asking people to donate only what they can afford. 2/2

📢SOLIDARITY STRIKE FUND📢 We've launched a fundraising drive to support striking workers this Christmas: gofund.me/2b10b2c1 We're raising funds and awareness for workers and their unions as they fight for a proper pay rise and to defend vital services. 1/2

Royal Mail tell us nobody posts letters anymore….. #StandByYourPost

Heading to Derry shortly ❤️ for a #CostOfLivingCrisis coffee morning @DerryWomen Giving women a bit of time & space to talk about this crisis and its impact on them with @C_Fitz_ @karsweenz & @derryantipov

Early start this morning, just on @BBCRadioFoyle Breakfast Show, just after 8, talking about delays to the £600 Energy Bill Support - people are in crisis need now - people should have the choice to cash out this money - in meantime, need clarity on energy company hardship funds

"Student poverty has been government policy for far too long" 📢@chloeferguson__ #CostOfSurvival