tion in Harrow and many staff at Northwick signed up to work there.
Low pay is driving NHS workers into the private sector. decisions. unemployanc Middlesborough for Simi- CLEVELAND county council building Headers broke Thursday not to public sector workers during and be the current dispute.
They demanded that refuse collectors 'work normally' and cross picket lines at incinerators and emergency tips. Faced with a decision not to obey their By Graham Attwel NUPE shor County Council leadership struggle in Nottingham. an all-out pledge CaSI lay off any within two days.
steward, Notts GROWING unrest with the and strategy during the past few weeks has characterised the public sector Meetings of Nottingham No. 3 and social services branches have recently passed motions National calling for all-out strike action.
in the city of Nottinghan refuse collectors have called on weren't their union, the GWU, to call strike. They are unhappy about being called out alone and used as a spearhead.
Similar discontent is being expressed in NUPE and anger erupted when full-time officials ordered social services drivers porters. to call off an overtime ban.
After several stormy union meetings the ban was unofficially reintroduced. The Campaign for Action in NUPE has The central store for half of hospitals reduced to emergency levels by NUPE pickets.
But last week eight porters taking part in the action in two hospitals were suspended by management. The reply from the union was to mount pickets in every hospital and depot in the area, leaving hardly any cmcrecHCy CoVel The unofficial Ambulance ened an all-out strike if its members in West Glamorgan permitted to work emergency-only services.
These displays of militancy forced the area health authority to back down. Last Friday they gave in on the ambulance dispute and on Saturday lifted the At Quinton Kynaston school in NW London, 18 out of 75 teachers refused to cross the picket line. agreed at an NUT meeting held earlier at the school.
NUPE's London divisiona council has now called on all trade picket lines, and has promised full support for any teachers victimised as a result of their solidarity action.
The Socialist Teachers Alliance has said that while individual acts of solidarity by to victimisation by the leadership should aim to lead groups of teachers This would provide a basis for countering the NUT's order to scab, and help to prepare the fight over the teachers' own pay * The NUT committee at Vauxhall Manor school
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