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Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

Health workers mobilise for pay struggle

· Socialist Challenge No. 241, 15 April 1982 · p. 15 of the scan · 492 words

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Churchill Hospital, Oxford, in a personal capacity trouble Service employs 800,000 groups and technicians. The resolve of health workers.

No group of workers has so far accepted what is Ancillary some of whom gross less than tou for a 4i hour week administration staff and ambulance World Revolution Sunday 2 May 6.30 till late BRITAIN'S largest employer is facing serious front. The National - most of them women, and most of them abysmally This year for the first time there is a common settlement date of 1 April for all the main ancillary workers, nurses and midwives, administration staff, ambulance drivers prospect of a united struggle has strengthened the confidence and drivers have all been offered four per cent.

The lowest grades on professional technical grades are being offered nothing at all.

Nurses and midwives, Tickets in many of whom take home only about £60 have been offered 6.3 per cent. some of which is to be financed by further cut backs.

The elitist non-TUC affiliated Royal College of Nursing has not yet cepted this.

The basis clearly exists for a united co-ordinated campaign of action in pursuit of the claim modest 12 per cent.

Pressure is building up below from ar increasingly impatient membership. Three weeks ago 3000 health workers in the Manchester area struck for half a day following a lobby of the Area Health Authority.

Unfortunately the response of the union British economic crisis, crash of Laker, Potel men benefit trom oppression Reds, Mayakovsky, Turkey, Laurence Scott's Just 60p a copy Succi International, PO Box S0, London N1 2XP year (Britain anc leadership so far does not inspire confidence.

the headline 'Fourteen unions in action the latest of NUPE's journal outlines noW NUPE's executive sees the next step: write to MPs; lobby MPs/AHAs/ DHAs, hold meetings to discuss the claim. Action No mention of a campaign to win the membership of all the unions to support nationally organised industrial action to win anything from the present governient The only action called by the TUC health services Your Bank Name of Account to be debited ..

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Signed committee is a one hour stoppage Wednesday April with workplace meetings to discuss the pay claim.

These meetings must be used to prepare for joint action and to let the executives and the government know mean business.

COHSE, an important neta service one upped the stakes by announcing it will be taking selective action after waster If this action is not to be isolated and ineffectual the other unions must respond immediately.

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