Calvin Smith, COHSE convenor Littlemoor Hospital Oxford and Dominic Johnson, NUPE shop steward, Churchill Says The health service leaders set us up ior a miserable sell out.
weeks ago they decided to consult the members about strike action. This was obviously so much hot air. Spanswick's idea OI delegate conwas nothing more than cop OUL. would make that his sure members never got the chance to vote for all-out strike action.
The percent has been buried. no authority their membership, ine leaders are making a two-year deal which means not a penny more this year than were offered months ago.
If this rammed through will outright betrayal of our Hospital, Oxford. Both of them are in our picture picketting Spanswick at seven month's battle battle which captured the hearts and minds of the whole trade union move. ment.
At the very time they were talking to the governour officials called off the one-day strike of transport workers and burned the midnight with ACAS in a desperate attempt to strangle the The TUC health committee led and epitomised by general Spanswick stands exposed being utteriy incapable of leading serious light against the government.
must now start organising to replace people like. Spanswick. struggle in the NHS is not the TUC.
over. Once the pay deal forced through the horrific cuts that have OCCI canvassed by the government and the Regional Health various Authorities will start.
The Tories will also drive through stall in order to destroy the jobs of the ancillary workers and to bust up the health unions.
Only mass action led Bring Party banners Called by Labour against the witchunt. by a strong leadership at nanonal as COCa evel combined with sup ort from the rest oi th labour Lucillall can hope to throw back this assault.
We health workers can have no confidence in the TUC health services committee. They will organise such a fight.
The whole the movement must now understand tnal derence ol the NHS is bound up with the struggle to cleanse the uho will not. unions these leaders and cannot fight the Tory governThat means we must also understand the wretched role played by the right-wing leaders, with Len Murray al the helm, who never fought £622 extra for South for our all-out victory. In and deliberately betrayer Such brutal and disgusting disregard fol our remarkable efforts and those who supported us is unbelievable.
Along with Spanswick these people must be cleared out of their positions of responsibility in the labour movement. An unrelenting struggle needed to build an alteracross the labour move The left leaders like Benn and Scargill must head this struggle against the trade union betrayers and LN e Party witch-hunters. Otherwise workers' interests sold out, again, and again
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