BM A House, Tavistock Square, London W.C.1. We urge readers to put down resolutions in their trade union branches etc. supporting this action, which can mark the beginning of a fight back against the reactionary consultants. This fight must be taken into the whole labour movement, as part of a fight to implement the Labour Party resolution and fight for the banning of private practice outside as well as inside the NHS Sabotage The moves towards a two-tier health service are a serious threat to an already ailing National Health Service. Preparations have to be made by health workers now to fight the sabotage of the consultants through private practice bans, refusal to service consultants taking action, etc.
But the fight cannot be left to health workers alone. The crisis in the NHS is the concern of the whole labour movement, which must give full support and assistance to health workers in struggle. Only this can break the reactionary offensive of the consultants.
For further details of the BMA picket, contact: Dr Paul Stern, 55 Bridge Lane, London N.W.11. (01-455 4920).
The state only provides places in day nurseries for about seven per cent of the under fives, and now moves es through 'Our aim must still be to reduce our workforce by around 40,000 in two years.' These were the defiant words of British Steel Corporation chief executive Bob Scholey as strikers at the Trostre, Velindre, and Port last week. But through Scholey's cloud of rhetoric one fact shinfor the right to work and against wage-cuts has stayed the hand of the BSC and shown all workers that it is possible to fight back against rationalisation" plans and the unemployment policies of the Wilson Government.
Nothing, however, has been finally settled in the steel industry.
Instead the BSC has decided on a truce in the war. In return the leadership of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation has given up even the pretence of leading a national fight against the BS's rationalisation Talbot steel plants returned to work the determined fight by rank-and-file steelworkers plans. The local areas will be left to take the brunt of the BSC's national oftensive On paper BSC has partially with drawn its threat to weekend working worth £16.50 or more in steelworkers' pay packets. In practice, as Sirs and the IST burcaucracy concede, JOSEPHINE WRIGHT Steelworkers lobbying talks between the unions and the BSC on 22 January were insistent that unless the BSC climbed down the strike action would spread and ne wonde demands nanone. strike action. Peter Burke. Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers Conven or at the I.lanwern plant, told Red Week Ty just what the ending of the guaranteed working week would mean for his memIf it was suspended unilaterally by the Corporation it would mean that the Corporation could deploy its labour on any basis that it wanted to, during any period of the working week. This would mean that von could be at work two day. and off three days it would be dictated neat corporation scrE Llanwern was very sempathetic to the action being taken in other South Wales plants, Burke said. The rebellion is there on the shop floor. All we want is the dictate from the national level where we can really get the lead.
Josephine Wright, Senior Staff Rep resentative of the clerical union APKA at the Clydehridge works, also wanted national strike action but explained hou traditional craft divisions and backward the struggle of steelworkers as a whole
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