Health Minister David Ennals has fallen in love. His heart has gone out to the Royal College of Nurses, which has renounced industrial action in favour of moral appeals for more pay.
It is the stuff concordats are made of - the same concordat, endorsed by the government and union leaders, which helped to persuade the majority oflocal authoritymanual workers that 9 per cent plus El on account was the best they could hope for in a BOOZI SCLECTICE.
Their vote in the NUPE ballot, announced on Tuesday, was to accept the offer by a majority of six to four. The Transport and Workers and the General and Municipal had already accepted the deal nationally.
The for lessons for the ambulance and General ancillary workers fighting on for E60 and that hours, and for the nurses who have now joined them in battle. The need, first of all, to offer to us. *Merseyside does not even have a representative on the national negotiating body. •We must take the initiative shown by the workers in the London borough of Camden.
be- They put pressure on their local council and have achieved £60 for 35 hours. Local negotiations are the only has been Merseyside must break from the national agreement and fight for local negotiations. to •We must exert a maximum pathetic amount of pressure on our own who are accepts this offer.
on strike indefinitely, answer.
negonanons tinue for the full claim.
INELATIONE overcome the divide and rule tactics of the union leaders.
They began by settling the water workers' claim, weakening a united struggle, and will 17,793 has offer.
NUPE council to continue the fight even if the rest of the country *The key groups of workers 'Who needs can sustained providing the finance comes in. This is a fight that we are capable of winning.
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now insist that the votes of the three sections in the NUPE ballot be counted separately -although in total a majority of rejected the pay ancillaries have thrown out the offer by four to one, and ambulance staff have shown their contempt for Mr Fisher's package by seven to one. The nurses who have asked cucula. when WINCHESTER ordinated all-out action, with emergency cover, would transthe struggle in the hospitals.
Nottingham miners have already pledged their support Many nurses request. It was that kind of solidarity which •lifted the nurses off the poverty line in And it is such support from the labour movement which can put paid to the Royal College of Nurses' cap in hand pleading which the media is anxious to encourage all nurses to adopt.
Local authority workers continue to fight for their claim in a number of areas, and this is now likely to result in demands for local settlements. NUPE's London divisional council is holding a shop stewards rally at Conway Hall at 7.30pm on 1: March to attempt to coordinate action public sector workers across London.