continue Unis tremendous support.
Piease CORETON ana renters or supporto por bara Farthing. 25 Dunster B54 Hospital, Oxford (in a personal capacity) THE HEALTHWORKERS' reached a critical stage.
The publi union, NUPE ballot showed an unprecedented 200-1 majority in favour of action for the 12 per cent Members of COHSE have already been taking sclective action weeks, and this week they will be joined by NUPE NALGO and other healt service unions.
The executive of all the now have a clea mandate to step up the fight and co-ordinate united struggie -OL all Nevertheless major problems exist. In particular there is no clear national locus strategy coming from the unions leaderships. The members are being told to reduce the health service to accident and emergency (A&E) service only - but how to implement this is being left to the workers to decide on a pay struggle has now Angered by the miserly offers ranging from 4 to 6.4 per cent workers in all the major unions have now voted overwhelmingly to hospital to hospital basis.
It is a recipe for partial sectional actions which do involve the entire rapidly prove ineffective and demoralising. In pracrichieve an ARE service 18 tice the only for STING leaving essential cover under workers' control.
But this is not being spelled out by the union leaders. Moreover conditions strike indefinitely if they know that the rest of the workforce coming out as well with the movement supporting then conditions can only achieved union executives adopt a clear timetable leading to all out action as soon as possible. Unfortunately such strategy theoming. further ominous development has been tae can for aronta tion by the TUC health services committee.
So far the rejected serious action gets underway they might reconsider order to defuse the struggle.
Arbitration means abandoning the claim for CHOLIC cent maximum.
THE Health Ser vicAs Committee is calling for national one day strike for Wednesday 19 May Sana two hour stoppages every Thursday after that.
Health workers, thousands of whom earn less than L60 cannot afford less than 12 per cent, so it that the union negonators are forced to drop this call.
Widespread rank and file opposition in NUPE has now causcd Alan resner to reuder mis carget support for arbitration.
The TUC health services committee must now fall into line and make it Clear that nothing less than 12 percent will do!
Because of these defi ciencies at national level. a strong rank and file leadership rooted in the mass strug gles at local level, and capable of organising sulficient pressure for all out namonal action The first steps towards this have seen the emerg Healthworkers for the Full Claim innuence in regions of the country.
this NOPE executive on 6 May lobbied both health ser vices committee on 10 May demanding national action For further information anc or copies i of its bulletir com 0842-877 296 Lunts. Athertor Johnson. Oxford 0805-47624
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One day strike called for 19 May