Compromise Even the motion rejecting the cuts, put by Alf King who is leader of the Labour group on Hounslow council, compromised by making a £350,000 cut, on the grounds that savings' could be made.
Unfortunately bealth secretary, will not be ruse. In a letter refusing the AHA's request that a broad based delegation be allowed to meet the The people who may be confused by the tactics of the health authority are the potential supporters of the campaign to stop the cuts. The last Labour government alse insisted there was room for 'genuine sayings', but none of the money saved found its way services. The was fewer bospital beds and longer waiting lists.
Without the vigorous campaign coordinthe recent. established Assembly Against the Cuts, the vote of 15 to 9 for Alf King's motion could well have been very health workers and unionists mobilised by the campaign made their presence felt throughout the AHA meeting — in the public gallery, on the lobby outside, and in a lightning occupation at the Hounslow Hospital down the road.
That they wil continue to oopose any cuts the AHA was made clear at a of health workers Hospital the next day. management, mistakenly thinking that the full meeting originally