NUPE member, St Nicholas Hospital CARETAKERS in Sunderland, refuse disposal workers in the whole of Tyne and Wear are out on strike. Most of the hospitals are being hit various forms of action and only selected roads are being gritted.
union co-ordinating committee has agreed to grant concessions those where the elderly, sick, disabled might be seriously а естес.
Meanwhile NUPE's local authority branch strike committee is organising a petition of support and a financial appeal.
The Campaign for Action in NUPE held a meeting Newcastle on January. Approximately people attended and speakers included a nurse, a teacher mentally handicapped, and a school student.
In an attempt to stem the obvious tide of militancy in the area, it has been rumoured that private firms are being hired to remove dirty linen and provide linen skips in strike-bound hospital laundries.
Oxford
Area supplies department, Oxfordshire hospitals ACTION has been taken in Oxford by almost every section of public sector workers, with a policy of "patient care only being applied in the hospitals for two days this week.
The Churchill sector joint shop stewards committee, which I'm on, has ensured that control over emergency cover is in the hands of taking action.
This makes it much more difficult for management to persuade mose remaining on duty to scab on those taking action.
A resolution to the NUPE hospital branch for aCL01 has obtained backing, but branch chairperson has rerused lo allow it to be discussed.
Members could do worse than follow the example set at Oxford Polytechnic. NUPE steward there failed to build for the 22 January day of He has since replaced prepared to lead the struggle.
Prime visited Minister. regrading have been told to accept a nationally agreed sentatives, the NALGO leadership's main argument for