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THE NOTTINGHAM County Council has decided on 300 seperate items to be cut. In health alone this involves: phase 2 A lie University Hospital will not be built till 1981/2, and even then its not assured, resulting in 1091 beds, operating theatres and an outpatient department being indefinately delayed; ward block at Nottingham City hospital is to be delayed two years; increase in much needed facilities for the elderly.
Trent Regional Health Authority threaten that 'some very painful decisions will have to be taken'. They might have added 'fatal'.
In education things are no better. The jobs to go are 136 nursery posts, prosts 18 posts Te c 3225* ies has sparked off united resistance by parents and staff. mothers and children occupied. the gallery at a Spcial Services Committee meeting on September 13.: After meeting council representatives mothers blöcked the traffic on Trent Bridge. Un September 22 nursery nurses in the SONICA branch of NUPE marched through Nottingham city supported by parents to demand that there are no closures or jobs lost.
Lothian LOTHIAN REGIONAL Councit, which is Labour controlled, has so far refused to implement any Tory Instead, the contingency fund has been used to pay recent wage increases. Lothian has also announced there will be no cuts or rates increases next year.
Edinburgh Trades has called dionersber industrial actios cuts. Sach actice will be DECISIT! keep Labour party promises! BUILDING WORKERS and fellow trade over 2 months.
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Octaba 10d as lie Crouda ce Sa London S8T. The merest sir i board Trada Conci i turned out last week for a mass picket of Cr building site in Wandsworth. The Trades Council Direct Works Joint Stewards Committee have organising daily picketing of two sites in Wands arch for As part of their attempt to cut the Direct Works, Tory council refused to allow their own labour fance s When UCATT, the bui workers union, picketed the two sites in proses council took out a High Court injunction agaist Regional Organiser, Lou Lewis. It was at this pora At the mass picket T&GWU Regional Secretary P Kavanagh pledged that members of his union monk cross the picket line. If necessary, he said, action bers to bo.