the beginning of the have mass circulation on its first issue.
cannot be supporting one set of interests.
press" some real meaning.
services to come shortly.
nursis members industrial action. but only where ine' stick to the executive's new guidelines on patient care.
These are presently being issued to the membership, but if they bear any rèsemblance to the guidelines that the public sector union leaders put out during last winter's strike then it would be impossibleto both stick to them and take effective action.
The only guidelines that should be adhered to are those in the Rank and File -Code membership should decide on the level of emergency services to be provided. Trades has Victories NUPE members Hospital, London, hiąve chalked uptwo victories against the health authority's attempts to enforce cuts of £5m. A programme of lightening stoppages and a refusal to cover unfilled SIDDOCU changing catering workers' filling portering previously being left unfilled. hospital are now to open discussions with medical stait with a view frustrating administration close 80 surgical and medical beds.
Hospital, Hoxton, have pledged not to taking be party to moving old people out of their and administration attempts to close the popular day centre. THE FIRST weekly newspaper to be produced by a trades council hit the streets and factories of Hull last Friday. A 16-page tabloid aimed at uniting the labour movement in the city, Hull News notched up a five-figure paid A letter from Barry Moor, AUEW shop steward at Reckitt & Colman said: 'I would not use the Hull Daily Mail for toilet paper, let alone buy it..
*Through a free press the proletariat can express its views and opinions. I shall endeavour to publicise your paper to all my trade unionists.
John Pilger of the Daily Mirror wrote: "The importance of Hull News overstated; throughout so much of our media the view is unequivocally the "established view": predictable, •If Hull News can make a dent in thisstatus quo it will give "freedom of the This week's issue will include in depth coverage of the public spending cuts, with features on the National Abortion Campaign, education and social The trade union organiser on Hull News is Noel Hibbert, a member of the International Marxist Group, who says: "This must be one of the most important developments for a local labour movement ever.
'It hasn't been easy, but no one ever thought it would be. There's no reason why every trades council in the country can't do what we've done in Hull.' To find out more about the paper, contact: Noel Hibbert, Hull News, Corporation Chambers, Trinity House Lane, Hull. Tel 0482 225562.
who take Practice. The lot also people to • al the London swim.
Whitechapel, East involved in the vacancies firstly help in unilaterally • boilers etc. place of and taen lorceo the vacancies NUPE branch officials at the • LI plans to Trade unionists at St, Matthew's local 'alternative will resist of the cuts.
unquestioning, and FULHAM. BATHS are being closed by Hammersmith's Tory council as part of itscutbacksin spending. That's why the baths are now being occupied.
All facilities are being maintained: laundry, warm baths — which are used by old people and the swimming pools. Financial support i needed to keep the oil supply, work, especially in th daytime. Night-helpers can sleep or The workers from the baths have been re-deployed and are not directly occupation, so appeal has gone out for skilled workers maintaining equipment Lime Grove baths in Hammer. smith are also to be closed, leaving the borough with no swimming pools ust. a new one opens in late 1980.
On Monday, , when the Kensington Tory council held an official ceremony bestow the freedom of the roya borough on Margaret Thatcher, the anti-cuts campaign held si ceremony" to beston freedom awards on members of the
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