Photo: JOHN STURROCK (Report)
Almost 80 shop stewards representing nearly 30 London hospitals met last wegnesday to inrasn out d strategy to fight the growing cuts in the National Health Service conference came from the South olewaras vomee. WITU Tec ine SUCCeSSTU OIStrCI-WIDe strike action in detence COT Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital, threatened with closure.
Delegates wron suop stewards across -LOnGOE SUD mitted resolutions for the conference and speakers included those HOI Ine CGA St Bartholomew's, nanging over the nospidi worners Рапу керог. Inese DepartiHCi other areas, London has too good a nea in service But instead ot bringing -otel midlanos by inree oer cent, ana ro bring down London to tne same level by cutting its spending by 12 The Priorities Renort plavs leve cown - curnosoia starD of these tricks. They voted OvCH welmingly against all cuts in the te cah lora subslahtld wage in crease protected by a shaing In recoanition of the urgent need branches and shop stewards committees tortu suoDor torne mass lobby of the 22 March public sector CUts YUICU suoDon tor inert mav day or string action bv ne London memoers ol reiectea a resolution wom support SocialIS workers LOR LO CHIC VulD was Hariond. COn ference, and to back its demands democratic system.
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Wales and England are going to have
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at the conference: The Resource Allocation Working
of Health proposals seek to play the arguing that on doi n o by arguing that comparison
areas up to London's standards, the Deprive di area suc s ho ast proposed
12 per cent and community health workers by seven percent The conference would have none
and in favour of hospital inflation rises. The delegates also supported
scale to pace with inflation. URGENT
Union of Public Employees. The conference overwhelmingly
Party-dominated Hospital Worker which implied that the only solu- attend
SELF-DETERMINATION defy Parliamentary legality on these questions as well?