Bob Moody, NUM Notts Area Executive (in personal capacity)
This Tory Government has no interest in the health of working class people, a fact underlinGreen currently stage, which would juries benefits and Special Hardship Allowance.
The basic effect of Special Hardship Allowance is to partially Hallllalli lne carllllss workers who have been torced to take less well-paid jobs as a result of inurles sustained at work In the mine, for example, a face worker who is injured and redeployed to a lighter job could lose more than week i waces.
Special Hardship Allowance gets him maybe £10 a week on top of his new, lower, wage. I. Taie Num is com- isn't ideal. The mitted to tull rate protection - no one should lose as a result ot industrial injury. What is more, Special Hardshin latest move is a at the Committee decimate industrial ineffectively abolish the Allowance stops at retireIncill. As though a miner stops being disabled when he is 60 or 65!
Nevertheless, Special Hardship Allowance is a hard won gain for miners and all industrial workers. Maybe 1 in 20 .n al my pit rely on it. Su ii is a gain that cannot and will not be easily surrendered.
Notts Area NUM has the past been called "moderate' and 'parochial'. Given the right leadership, that can be changed. Rank and file Notts miners and Area Council delegates are calling for a mass lobby of Parlament as a first step towards action against this allack on workig clas JOBS Handrdso) = o) Desuvis Kalloy wi Siss ple of dustries and its top civil servants. Whist we are to deprived of benefits after a lifetime in our industry, the chosen few enjoy tax free perks, golden handshakes and indexMaggie certainly looks after her own. And so should we. WOMEN'S FESTIVAL
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