Pressure Rises for All-out Strike

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HEALTH workers this week sympathetic action from again carried forward the other sections, and next torch of struggle against the week's CoHSE conference Tory government and its facing demands for all-out hundreds of thousands of ACAS officials are standing health trade unionists won by ready to move in and moral and practical support arbitrate, it is plain that from miners, engineers, neither the government-nor train drivers, and other the rank and file workers strike on June 8 marked a claim -. 12% - is a modest consolidation of the strength demand in the context of shown in the May 19 stopp- the fall in living standards age and an advance on the suffered by this low-paid level of support on June 4. section. The union leaders must be forced to call the only action which can win the full claim - all out strike in confidence after the sur- action, in which: elected prisingly strong two-to-one strike committees control vote by the non-union Royal the provision of emergency College of Nursing to reject involved, adopted a policy of the Tories' divisive 6.4% pay offer, delivering a blow to all-out strike action at its be forced to undertake this government attempts to split action whether or not nurses from other health COHSE votes to support it.

biggest single chalienge yet union leaders to divide and have so far evaded imple- mounted to Thatcher's pay defuse the pay struggle and menting this policy, the policy - and also to the anti to avoid the necessary call stubborn stance of Social union strategy spelled out in for all-out strike action with Services Secretary Norman emergency cover, the signs Fowler makes this increas are that the struggle contin- ingly difficult. Other union built within the health unues to gain momentum - leaders too are under press- ions that is ready and willing and force the leadership into ure to escalate the action -an increasingly uncomfort- with the GMWU arguing for This week we combine our chart showing overall progress towards the £6000 target (the red patch, we also list a target based on the size of the local groups -and for each region that several localities still have a lot of lower than given last week; despite contributions received since

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vicious wage controls. strike alongside NUPE.

And the stand taken by Amid rumours that public sector workers. are ready to compromise.

The one-day national The health workers' Gained Workers had also gained GMWU's Basnett: strong words but no strong action able corner.

NUPE, the largest union COver.

NUPE in particular must conference last month..

This fight could be the workers.

Despite every effort by Though NUPE leaders the Tebbit law.

A leadership must be to carry through such struggle to the end.

SCOTLAND Glasgow Edinburgh Stirling Carlisle Total YORKSHI Durham/S York Bradford utions area by area. Leeds Hull For each locality Sheffield Total NORTH-WE Merseyside/ Manchester Winsford Stoke Total It's pretty clear WEST MIDLANDS Birmingham bounced cheques. Target So far Target ORT st on Tuesday June 8.

A mass meeting has yet nesday the 9th.

Other action on Mersey-

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right) with a table analysing the contrib-

the percentage of the target so far received.

then, because of by Harry

work to do! The grand total is