IMGpapers 1968–75

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1968–75

Nurses: uniting the claim

Red Weekly No. 55, 6 June 1974 · p. 8 of the scan · 323 words

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page 8 of the scan

bureaucracies are all putting forward different demands. All three have taken different positions since the announcement of an inquiry by the Labour Goverment, the terms of reference for which haven't even been decided.

awaiting the results of the inquiry before further action. The RCN are just awaiting the inquiry, COHSE have called for a ban on non-nursing duties and overtime in support of an pending the results of the inquiry.

Different action committees aro A thousand johs are to be lost at Hritish we are fighting for NUPE supports a 555 rise, but is this meeting should he demanding interim award of C6 across the board, ven the lack of any clear lead a major priority must be to establish what claim The only way Lus can be done 1s by 2 national meeting with delgates from every hospital and action committee to work But a common can an & common coll paign. Resolutions should also be put Cally on ne vanpus unsins to suppos Given the rise in the cost-of-living of just over 85 in the first five monds of this year, 59% i not adegate, We *A £30 minimum wage as a first step to a E40 minimum. (Already the National Union of Seamen, the NUT, the Agnicultural Workers, und the Bakers" Union are General Workers Union Regional Com 5A E12 acros-the-boand increase (to unite all grades of nurses).

*A"nil-norm" threshold agreement.

* An annual wage review.

*No increase in meal or accommodation charges these to he froven at their pre-rents freeze level.

*A 35-hour week-overtime at time and a half-double time for nights and weekends In addition we must demand the scrappate of the Whitley Council, and tor direct necolaborat nation and h cal level, for free crecho and nursery levels to be observed, no files on disaplin health and safely regulations to be applied to health service workers done the pool will be imposed, and it will

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