NHS ancillaries push for action | IMGpapers 1976

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the NHS ancillary against inflation.

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The government is certain to offer 5 per cent, though it may add in tew SUDS (bonus payments, etc.) to try to keep the public sector quiet until the more militant sections in the private sector nave gone back to work The National Union Public Employees is playing THE GOVERNMENT will be replying next week to workers' claim for a consolidated basic rate of £60 per week, a 35-hour week with no loss of pay, four weeks annual leave after 12 months service, plus fringe benefits — all protected PATRICK SIKORSKI, East Birmingham Hospital branch secretary for the health service union COHSE, right into the government's hands. Its full-timers are being instructed lo ensure thal all the public sector claims pile up in запшату.

But no public sector worker can afford to play a waiting game. The present back-room talks must be broken off now.

Already NHS ancillaries are virtually bottom of the 31 fully grades that make up the manual workers ancillary's basic pay is now al least £10 below the government's official poverty line!

NHS workers Midlands are organise now for the NUPE district and divisional committees have been discussing which sections of workers they will bring out if action is called.

The COHSE Pay Action Committee has organised ten mass meetings in hospitals in the region, and 30,000 leaflets explaining the claim. Most importantly, it has called picket negotiations on 8 December. league. unions then claim. in the West beginning claim.

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The distributed to join the picket the mean An impressive mobilisation of workers from all the NHS will encourage inter-union co-operation in the localities in the fight for the This fight must also include demands for a stepping up of November the campaign against the cuts order to counter the idea that excessive wage claims will eat into the available for the outcome ancillaries' claim will determine the outcome of all the other claims of NHS workers. So all NHS workers are being asked council on DHSS, Elephant and Castle, London.

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