MAKE NO BONES ABOUT IT NEED MORF 0 stand s noboan whih ihs Drai Mara HOSPITAL workers in Edinburgh have been on strike since 20 May in opposition to ine 4 pe support of their 12 pet CONLOEY cent claim.
NUPE the Royal Infirmary and the City continuing their action. Initially bers in thesa nosoitas were out as well. the union's organisers make the ficial.
unions leel that a onenational on 4 June is not enough. They want an all-out national strike, with only proper COVER.
Socialist spoke to people involved.
Davy Burnett, shop stewards' the infirmary, said that the hospital are acting in a typically hypocritical making people iying in great about their own muck He pointed out that the strikers viding emergency cover and so no one will die as a result of the strike. Hie is annoyed at press slurs that patients will for they stories about people dyof NHS offer and in members in no national Hospital are strike committee COSE mem- tacted the but area HEITOREI refused branch action OCTAEO both Ferranti stoppage port.
Billy. at the Infirmary.
emergency at the convenor at managers manner, Claner are -UTU desths Clerk the consprint Porter expenditure cuts. and they only taik about how vital is the work of health workers HOLC hospital when they're on strike. couldn't COSÉ, he said, are because in a weak position with funds finance the strike. The said coordinating NUM has con- and gate.
Eric Clarke, the Scottish secretary of the NUM has arranged with secretaries for COLOG ONS The National Union of plained Seamen and workers at tion Electronics Southern have also promisad sup- Hospital La NUPE picket received ed the police had been backing trying to start trouble The sympathetic driver of a mail van had halted dry picket but the definitely.
Present annual basic basic weekly £3071 Technician £3339 Statt Nurse £4438 E3160 E3339 police informed him he couldn't stop inside the because property and stop OU LS EE he Was obstructing traffic The police had also there should only be six pickets on sach According to Bill that's 'only Thatcher's Vernon Sollas. shop steward in the laundry at the City Hospital, ex that a delega had gone the General . in Glasgow, where laundry workers are aiso on sike. he promises of the unions, who are raising a levy to keep the launworkers out inPresent Weekly increase proposed hs DHSS £59.05 £2.36 £64.22 E2.57 £85.34 15.46 E60.77 E2:43 £64.22 62.57 Vernon said that a faw workers are STEE out ficial strike with them and the NUPE strikers had agreed to help them through HO CHEON. their own strike Management, said are tryin! undermine the strike b manipulating sions: the more the strikers provide, the more management want.
Cathy, full-time worker at the City in atos which involves handling soiled laundry, and thus risking infection, takes only per 4 per cent would mean an in per week after deduc tons Net weekly increase after deductions 79р 85р 12.34 -76р 85р
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