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	<description>Eric Roberts LAS UNISON Branch Secretary</description>
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		<title>Fighting For A Future</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 23:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been asked if I and the union believe that A&#38;E Support Staff are &#8216;Front-line&#8217;. This was after we complained about a trial being run with A&#38;E Support Staff working with Paramedics. We were prepared to lodge a dispute if the trial was not stopped. The trial has been stopped The answer, to be very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May Day Greetings</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 00:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is International Workers&#8217; Day.  A day celebrated in over 80 countries all over the world. It is a public holiday in many other countries. Workers, their unions and their political parties, stand together to show that there is a better world, a better way and a better future. Dream and imagine. May 1st was chosen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boondoggle!</title>
		<link>http://ericsblog.lasunison.eu/?p=953</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 18:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No one working within Public Services needs me to tell them that we are facing a difficult and uncertain future. The facts are all around, staring us in the face. Vicious spending cuts. Pension reform. Creeping privatisation.Outsourcing. Health &#38; Social Care Bill. Within the London Ambulance Service we can add to that list the idea [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Private Ambulances: Chickens Coming Home To Roost!</title>
		<link>http://ericsblog.lasunison.eu/?p=937</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 23:47:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Question: Is there a link between an increase in the use of private ambulance companies within the London Ambulance Service and the jobs/ posts that are being left vacant or going all together? Answer: Not half there is! When the Service published the Cost Improvement Programme (CIP) early in 2011 I wrote in my April posting (Coalition Cuts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Olympic Meddle.</title>
		<link>http://ericsblog.lasunison.eu/?p=930</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Olympics are nearly upon us. Hundreds of thousands of visitors are due to come to the United Kingdom and most will flock to the Capital. The newspapers are full of it. The media is full of it. The world-wide web is full of it. The London Mayor is full of it. Parliament is full of it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smoke Gets In Your Eyes.</title>
		<link>http://ericsblog.lasunison.eu/?p=917</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:24:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In October 2010 I wrote a posting on this blog entitled &#8216;Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire (Service)!&#8217; If you can, you should go back and read it. Good morning: it&#8217;s Groundhog Day! Tory London Fire Authority Chiefs must have  &#8221;if at first you don&#8217;t succeed, try try again&#8221; hot wired into their brains! This is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Royal What!</title>
		<link>http://ericsblog.lasunison.eu/?p=898</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:04:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read today on the BBC News website that Michael Gove, the Tory Education Secretary, has put the idea forward that the nation should buy a new Royal Yacht as a gift to the Queen on her Diamond Jubilee! What recession? What deficit? What crisis? We are told that we are all in it together. We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boris In Toy Town.</title>
		<link>http://ericsblog.lasunison.eu/?p=887</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The London Assembly&#8217;s Health and Public Services Committee published their report &#8216;The Future of the London Ambulance Service&#8217; on the 15th December 2011. It is well worth a read, if only to get an insight into the way Boris Johnson (London Mayor) played with his toy cars as a child. The future of the London Ambulance Service [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pensions Are A Trojan Horse.The Public Sector: City Of Troy.</title>
		<link>http://ericsblog.lasunison.eu/?p=882</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is important for us all to understand that the present attack on our pensions, are not just about pensions! Pensions are the Trojan Horse and Public Services the City of Troy.  Make no mistake though, a robbery is in progress. Under cover of red herrings, lies and misrepresentations, public sector workers are being mugged and our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Caution! Damp Squib!</title>
		<link>http://ericsblog.lasunison.eu/?p=867</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:13:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Prime Minister, David Cameron, called the 30th November Day of Action by over two million public sector workers a &#8216;damp squib&#8217;! I think we will soon see the first scientific evidence of a damp squib exploding in the face of a British premier! Hundreds and hundreds of thousands of hard-working, decent, public sector workers stood up [...]]]></description>
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