THE NEXT health workers day of action called for Wednesday 23 June promises to turn into a massive show of against the Tory government.
The just claim of the health workers for a 12 per cent rise in pay has cut right through the cant of Tory deep chord in the hearts of and struck working people.
The miners have again pledged strike aciton support and dockers, gas, SECC and others are also poised alliull Ovel 150.000 workers downed tools for the health workers on the 9 June day. of action. June promises to be two or three times as big.
Such action is not only a biow on behalf of the health workers, its a direct challenge to the Tories and their attempts to smash the unions.
1980 Employment Act and Tebbit's new law due to come into effect in the autumn SOLS Oul LU stop precisely the kind of solidarity action we've been seeing.
By tying the unions up knots, by threatening them cullious penalties the Tories aim to stop broad labour ment mobilisation in support of individual groups of workers.
Arthur Scargill president National Union of Miners, answers the lory threat this wav: 'The best way to oppose the government's trade union legislation is to supthe campaign for higher pay'. working class solidarity The TUC has taken no lead at all in stopping the TIES "Union Day' on 10 June may have seen eignt mimon Icalels distributed describing the Bill but this is not the type of action that's called for.
uuu ustlidi acul will stop the Tories some of the more left wing union leaderships such as the miners have recognised.
nervousness about the implications of the growing support for LUC shown by their response to the request bi the health unions to call on all afIllated unions to take industrial action on 23 June. This was interpretea as a call for a one-day general strike, interpretation which Len Murray hotly disputed.
Bickerstaffe, due to take over from Alan Fisher Nureneral retira of public employees union said that the health strike is, in part. a political one, it aims to overturn Borchillicit Jay bully So join the picket lines, the demonstrations on June. Health workers are prepared tour workplaces calling for support so why not invite LOCO LO vours? Thatcher can be forced to relical the health workers pay limit but more importantly her whole policy can be defeated - if ts all out on 23 June.
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