FOR graduates from the five new medical schools and the increased intake in Becuase the NHS is starved of sufficient funds to run an Instead of demanding that the more medical posts, the GMC hopes to force out Indian doctors, so that what is left of a declining NHS can be shared out by British and white MORE DOCTORS The working class movement must oppose unese racist measures.
fight on behalf of the Indian doctors the labour movement will be defending its own interests. It will also be allying itself with doctors who have they are strong supporters of a free Furthermore, many of the skills These include:
Britain they can eventually take back to India. If the GMC is successful in cutting down the number of Indian anyone who leaves; doctors it will worsen health stanDI POLITIC ALN ATTI BACKS WOMEN'S CHARTER The Association of Teachers in Technical Institutions voted overwhelmingly at its - recent annual conference in Scarborough to support a motion on Women's Rights As well as containing detailed sections on child care provision and maternity leave, the motion supported the Working Women's Charter and called for a campaign to implement the demands of the Charter. It also urged the Association to approach the TUC for support.
This follows on the support given to the Charter by the annual conferences of the National Union of Journalists, the civil servants' union the CPSA, and the AUEWTASS, and contrasts markedly with the way the Charter was manoeuvred out at the National Union of Teachers' Easter conference.
The ATTI conference also passed overwhelmingly an amendment deploring the James White Abortion (Amendment) Bill and called on the ATTI National Council and National Executive 'to encourage members to participate in the national demonstration being organised against the Bill on 21 June'. decision of the ASTMS conference to campaign against the Bill and should aid the mobilisation for 21 June. WORKERS GO INTERNATIONAL The strengthening of the Common Market runs directly counter to the interests of the entire trade union membership employed by the General Electric Company. This is the agreed view of the GEC Action Committee, which receives active support from stewards' committees and office committees on the best organised GEC sites in Stafford, London, Rugby, Wigan, Wolverhampton, Coventry, Treforest, Leicester, etc.
The growing trend for mergers on a European scale represents a real threat to trade unionists in the electrical industry throughout the world. The importance of developing links with trade unionists working for GEC in other countries was stresse at the Action Committee's meeting on the weekend of 17-18 May. Links have been established with GEC workers in Dundalk and Dun Laoghaire with the help of the Irish Transport and General Workers Union, and letters have been sent to the CGT and the CFDT in France enquiring about union organisation in the 'Lincoln' washing machine factories which are now part of the GEC group. Similar efforts are being made to get in touch with GEC employees in Germany and Portugal.
Future copies of the GEC Newsletter should contain reports from factories in these countries, as well as information on disputes and wages in the British factories Any trade unionist working for GEC can obtain copies from the Secretary, GEC Action Committee, 140 Clarence Road, Peterborough, PE1 2LE-please send a stamped addressed envelope.
STUDENT-WORKER UNITY AT UEA Over 700 teachers, students, tradesmen, cleaners, catering staff and part-time employees attended a mass meeting last week called by the Joint Shop Stewards Committee at the University of East Anglia, in reply to threatened economy cuts inaue Dy ine vice Chancellor. The University is the largest single emplover ir Norfolk with 1400 workers. The authorities plan a total freeze on all new appointments and rent increases of around 25 per cent, and have re-affirmed their intention to make catering self-financing.
The Joint Shop Stewards Committee, which has been extended to include two student representatives, had its proposals overwhelmingly adopted by a mass meeting.
•Outright opposition by all means possible by the trade unions to redundancy;
•All vacancies must be filled immediately. No person is to take on the work of •No overtime working to be made up for people not replaced or to cover the proposed cut in the hours of part-time emplovees This follows the recent