Tebbit retreat
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Wednesday 23 June in Coventry promises to see a huge show of . support for the health workers' pay dispute.
The hospital joint unions - NUPE, COHSE, TGWU and ASTMS - have already forced hospital management to stop all routine admisthreatened selective strikes for which all union members have been levied.
For this one-day stoppage, the hospital workers have appealed for support to the labour movement Coventry. The support given has been overwhelming. 5,000 Warwickshire miners are coming out for the day A great victory? Norman Tebbit this week backed down on aspects of his new vnuth chead-labour scheme.
OT SOON YOUTH IVEDS U201 The scheme - to be launched in September 1983 with an initial intake of 100,000 - will pay £25 per compulsory. Tebbit had originally proposed to pay £15 per week and make. the scheme compulsory. He shifted stance in the face of opposition from the TUC, the CBI, and the MSC.
So is it victory? £25 per week is certainly cheap labour, even if £15 is cheaper. Though the scheme will not be compulsory (at first, anyway), anyone refusing to go on it will have his/ her benefit cut by an appropriate amount' for six months. And the modification has ensured that the new Tory scheme has the full support of the TUC - rather than the trade unions campaigning for the right to real jobs, and real wages, for all workers, old or young, men or women.