Edinburgh all out
Socialist Organiser1982 1982-08-26Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 15 →
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to support the health workers, on Monday 6th September WORKERS PAY CAMPAIGN Union Offices, St Mary's Wing, AI40 the attempts to close it.
Ethel Samaroo, following the lead given by shop steward Rita Maxim earlier this year, was prepared not to go to the disciplinary hearing. She was advised by the T&G full time official that she might be sacked for refusing to go!
The Central Sterile Supplies department, the kitchen and the laundry workers came out on strike as 800n as Ethel was sacked. another attempt to victimise Rita Maxim on July 15th. She accused Rita of not cleaning cubicles [which were infectious] when told to do so.
Rita is fighting this latest harassment.
It is certain that management will continue their attempts to sack the activists but the workers at St. Mary's are still fighting back.
100 members of NALGO and NUPE are now em indefinite strike at Trinity House, the main NHS administrative centre in Edinburgh.
They walked out demanding that management should withdraw its threat to dock their wages in retaliation for blacking mail; and they are appeal. ing for support to other NHS workers in Edinburgh. "Post workers TUCW] and engineers IUCW] are respecting the picket line.
The Western General hospital in Edinburgh, which was all out for the whole of the August 9/14 week of action, is continuing with selective strikes.
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was founded by his father Pierre on the model of Hitler's Nazis. Bachir rose to supremacy by building up the Falange militias to 6,000 men, imposing consci ion for them in areas under his control. Now this sectarian gang leader, with Israeli backing, is president of Lebanon.
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