WE NEED YOUR HEAD Britain's NHS trade union STOP THE VIS KILLS THE PUBLIC government.
It was under labour, during winter's public strikes, that picketing came under attack.
It was under Labour tha union leaders entered discussions about the possi bility of surrendering the right to strike in the public sector in return for empty promises of comparability It was under Labour that the rights of health workers to take DUESTEEMED LEE TATEL ched by 'emergency services codes But Labour didn'T simply pave the offensive on basic union rights It also did the spadework for them in slashing EB billion off publie spending, closing over 130 hospitals, throwing leach eke on the sole. Taldier nurser will be aiming to push home the attack — hard.
Whilst the police and arny will be spared no expense l'law and order' being a priority), Turiber cuts in jobs and panied by unemployed scroungers attacks on social services a "luxuries we cannot afford' Thatcher his made it quite clear that she will halt unnecessary Whilst Thatcher will be going out of her way to talk with the General Council of the TUC Crushing controntatian in the sector. cash limits steadily squezing the public sector, A determined and united response by workers is vital For it's when sector unions, most of whose conferences meet over the next lew weeks, are going to have to face some harsh facts about life under a Tory Defending basic trade union rights in the public sector — particularly the right to strike and picket — will be vital if public service workers are to resist a Tory offensive against public and social services.
public sector workers ribbons, won to action. into tremendous possibility when 80,000 way for a Tory commission NUPE sold Tory services will be accomoutbursts against and into any private will public sector But be eaten comparability minimum start taking action, exposing all the Tory clap-trap as a cover for cutting the welfare state to that the Labour movement as a whole can be During the winter we saw the comparability potential of A public sector alliance, when one and a half million public secto workers struck on 22 January and maintained action for six weeks over their pay claim.
employers* A similar alliance was a real marched WILLET TUT pay comparability Alan Fishe this fo his TATTLE membershipas the way to solve low pay and get a minimum conferences wage without having to fight defending the imprisonment of the Shrewsbury Two building worker in 1975.
comparability will achieve a few poundsat best for full-time workers, and this will by tne price increases that will come from Tory Increases in VAT.
The lesson drawn out of the Commission must be that only a national can end low pay, and that this will only be won braction, The main task is prepare the unions for ing all-out action behind a claim which is drawn up by the members to meet the real problems they confront which have nothing to do with resolution to NUPE confercuce demanding an E80 minimum wage, 35-Л0ur week, and a recall conference to decide what to do with any offer shows the way to begin this But to fight the cash limits, defence of jobs and servicin belter servioes, the union leadership's retrest on basic union rights must be Both the NUPE and CPSA will consider resolutions apposing the Con cordar. Fisher has declared the THATCHER's Minister of State for Social Secarity (Disabled), Reg Prestice, in an earlier role Concordat DUE the document was an agreement between the unions and it did not specify whether Labour or Within three days of the Tories taking office. Len Murray was talking to Jin Prior about all the same issues contained in the Concordat picketing. compulsory ballotgetting inflation down (wage cutting) other words, 'the Concordat is dead, one live the Concordat The only thing the Toric want to talk about is taking away our rights - the right of health workers to strike, the right to elective pickeling, the right to decide whether to strike without outside interference.
One resolution a1 NUPE conference calls for the sacking of Fisher and chiet governmen negotiator Ron Keating for their roic in the pas claim last winter.
Throwing out those union leaders who are willing to talk away basic union rights, whether they be national negotiators or branch secretaries, is still a fight that has to be waged.
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