THREE hundred nurses the Health Service.
be stopped.
national nurses advisory committee.
including working to rule and strike action.
staff and management resume negotiations on 8 July.
who welcomed the rally as the first step in the fightback.
groups to be set up in hospitals.
• NALGO, Talbot teachers' action group.
From the platform, would pay for half the NHS pay bill.
is general secretary.
in uniform led a 700-strong march through Glasgow on Saturday.
Organised by the Glasgow nurses action group (NAG), the demonstrators opposed the rent in- the voting paper is the cancreases for nurses' accommodation, the recent 14 per cent pay package, and the continuing cuts in At a rally after the march Avril Mitchell, a student nurse from Glasgow western district, said that nurses wanted a 30 per cent pay increase like the doctors, and they would have to take She also called for rent to be frozen, and hospital closures to The Edinburgh NAG was represented by Veronica Leadbetter, a trainee nursing tutor and also a delegate to NUPE's She said that nurses should vote against the offer in their union branches and prepare for a nationally co-ordinated fight, A possible focus for a national day of action will be when The appalling conditions in the nurses' accommodation were described by Christine Shand, from Eastern district NAG, Jack Lyttle, a nursing tutor, called for more local action Banners on the march included: Glasgow Trades Council, shop stewards, General and Municipal Workers Union, NUPE, Glasgow students, and the on the agenda.
Willie Hamilton MP compared the nurses's pay offer to the huge awards given to the police and the army. He said that the f900m being spent on a new torpedo George Anderson, a NUPE official stressed that nurses need to join unions. Speaking for the CPSA, International Marxist Group member Stewart McLennan said that more trades unions should support the nurses who were vulnerable to victimisation.
James Milne brought greetings from the STUC, of which he • Union rules