Interview with a staff nurse at Nether Edge hospital, Sheffield.
How much do you take home?
E62-3 per week after reductions.
What has been the previous actions in Sheffield?
It's been very good. The laundry and sterile supplies have been kept out for some time on full pay. During the days of action accident and emergency are the only services which have been maintained in the major hospitals.
What's been done to build for the 22nd? In Nether Edge we're having a series of 2-hour pull-outs with no notice to management. On the 22nd itself everyone will be out. For the national rally in London we have 1,000 places booked on Do you think solidarity helps?
It does a lot of good. It shows what we're looking for. It strengthens morale among health workers, and makes people see that the rest of the working class are on our side, and we re not on our own. Do you think Tebbit's law will have an effect on solidarity action?
It should be ignored. People expect it to be. If someone were sent to jail it popularise our cause — and they wouldn't stay in jail long.
Do you think that the TUC have given good leadership?
I think it's really useless. lead - and they forgotten what it's like to be a worker.
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