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BL union-buster Pat Lowry! should pass resolutions for The officials' strategy is their executive committees described as "hit and run": declaring outright opposition A single donation of £100 is the total amount we have received this week for the Special Fund. This brings our total so far to £1851.80 - still a long way short of our £6,000 target.

This fund is not a luxury that we could manage without. We are committing substantial resources to the campaigns we are supporting against the Tebbit anti-union legislation and in support of health service workers fighting for all-out industrial action to win their 12% pay claim in the face of determined opposition by their union leaders who want to limit action In the next week or so we will almost certainly be posed with the need to campaign against witch-hunting in the Labour Party when the report on the Militant Tendency is THE strident opposition of COHSE leader Albert Spanswick to calls for all-out strike action on the NHS pay claim this week shows the real stumbling block faced by health workers.

Three successful one-day strikes have shown workers increasingly ready to fight: sympathy strikes have shown others ready to fight alongside them. Yet the TUC Health Service leaders continue to hold back from the all-out action needed to win the claim.

At the TUC Health Services Committee last week the NUPE conference policy of indefinite strike action was not even put to the vote despite a vocal lobby of nearly 150 health workers outside.

Instead a further one-day stoppage was called on June 23 and more partial action authorised, together but there is far more running to ineffectual one-day strikes.

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to arbitration, and insisting that whatever the antics of the scab leadership of the RCN the unions refuse to settle until the full claim is met for all sections of NHS workers.

Meanwhile let us build for a massive display of solidarity and determination on June 23 - with flying pickets to extend still further the sympathy strikes that have already begun.

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