[FIGHT The Municipal Employees' Association, which was to…]
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FIGHT The Municipal Employees' Association, which was to become NUPE, was involved in the major strikes of 1911 and 1926.
General Secretary Jack Wills claimed 'We were more successful than any other union in getting our memocrs vals lu wurn. mehner honk townrk In May 1974, as militant action erupted amongst nurses and forced COHSE bureaucrats to call overtime bans and selective strikes, NUPE leader Alan Fisher attacked the action as an 'irresponsible act of amateur adventurers.
In the winter of 1978-9 NUPE could take any action 'short of pursuit of their strikes by ambulance drivers.
Fisher described the NUPE offer as a "personal tragedy"
During the occupation against the closure of St. Benedicts Hospital in South London, Fisher erentually got off his backside to visit the picket line only when the raids by scabs and police were at their height. He firmly denounced the pickets, condemning what he called "the use of force to prevent patients being moved out of the hospital"
Now Fisher has come out with repeated statements that NUPE will not involve nurses in industrial action. EL