Friday.
against the 5 percent.
PAT for the full claims.
With militancy fired by the | sector claims. Ford strike all the evidence points to the fact that public sector workers are prepared for a fight.
Birmingham refuse collectors earlier this month rejected -oy seven debors to two-all attempt by the Transport SHOn -ITHDOSC scheme involving 165 redundancies before the settlement of their national claim.
The West Midlands South-east regional councils of the health workers' COHSE have voted to set up regional pay action committees CONFERENCE On 7 October, attended the west Midlands joint union conference of the low paid neid in birminghan Ai this conference, however • left OTHeRS employees' union NUPE, such as CP member Roger Poole, tried to prevent discussion of a resolution calling for a joint union co-ordinating committee to organise for the full public Socialist Challenge 26 October 1978 page 6 THE CLAIM by hospital ancillary workers for a £60 minimum wage will be presented to the employers this Their pay demands join those of the nurses, refuse collectors, and other public sector workers now up SIKORSKI, a hospital shop steward in Birmingham, argues that joint union pay committees can play an important role in the struggle Birmingham WOrKCES rejected the scheme offer, encouraged by a Rank and File leaflet. unless there are organisational structures to launch a real fight tney will nave no opton but to accept when the union officials bonus come back with a revised deal.
PROBLEM and This problem is faced by the Reliance on meetings of the unions. the local officials, like Poole, would fail to place public sector workers on a fighting footing The shoo stewards' people tures in these unions, being a relatively new development in the public sector, are usually too weak to take on the task.
The way out of this deadlock public can be through joint union pay action committees, from, and recallable by, mass meetings workforce.
They could co-ordinate the fight for the full action refuse bonus But the routine For Or SOLLUL claim. workplace, area and regional levels.
Effective joint shop stewards exist, are ideally placed to set up joint union committees.
CHLIC Without such conditions, the first step can b organise and single union committees, which They are needed al the struggle where they do Public establish favourable now, and thus the full claim. 'THEY are playın eople's lives', Health Ministe David Ennals said last week 3,500 hospital maintenance supervisors taking action over their regrading scheme.
But just who is putting live at risk, Mr Ennals? Why, afte 4½ years of negotiations, have the supervisors justified claim:
been met, which would thereby remove the cause of the Who was it, Mr Ennals, who put the waiting lists for hospital admissions up to 600.000 anc continues to cut expenditure on the health service. Just how many lives have been put at risk BECAUSE the Labour Government's policies?
JUST WHAT does a union leadership do when social At the same time, we have applied to NALGO to take
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You're sick, Mr Ennals