They want nothing less than the 12 percent NUPE ing interest.
is no more money available Well they were right, the RCN is conservative, and it does like militancy. But its members turned out to be different than their officials. They are angry and frustrated at being exploited •DI government that puts money and health. So by a thumping 2 to I majority they slung rowier's otter out It is now plain to everyone that all the workers in the NHS, from the nurses in the professional RCN, to the lowest paid cleaners in NUPE, want that full 12 percent That is a message that ever fainthearted of the TUC Health Committee would have got wher they met a few hours after announcement of the ballot vote the TiC have called healthworkers' day of action and September. They have also organise one-hour stop pages in solidarity on that day Well that is alright as far as it goes, but it should and could go further Fowler is Mrs Thatcher's The government and the media watched the ballo the Royal College of Nursing, with more than pa Surely they reasoned, a conservati outfit like the RCN won't like all this militancy ar will see reason in the government's claim that 'the -LO pay the heal boy and that means he ha dig his heels in. He policy to whip th unions into line and tha means no giving in to th measures are needed make it change its mind That the should do nationally wha the Scottish shop steward are proposing to do Scotland - - call a one-da This would show th Tory cabinet that th labour movement business. should tell the cabinet tha the one-day strike on September is only fo starters and that unless th health workers get thei claim in full they will call series of one-day genera strikes We have said thi again. The health disput and we again. can be won. The only peo ple who can lose tha are the leaders o the the movemen must make sure that the do not do that For the full claim All out on 22 September