NUM: Vote again on jobs

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AS THE November 8 transport day of action approaches, the health union leaders are not out campaigning for strikes.

Still less are they campaigning for a 'yes' vote on all out action. Instead, they are talking to the government arbitration service ACAS.

No new offer has come from the government. But, as the Financial Times put it, "it is widely believed that many senior TUC and health union IOHN HARRIS officials are anxious to find a face-saving formula to end the campaign for a uniform 12 per cent rise".

TUC Health Service committee chairperson Albert Spanswick has not only failed to campaign for the Health Service committee policy of all out strike. He has tried to sabotage it by saying CoHSE can't decide until March [!] and proposing week-on, week-off strikes.

This follows the incident where he an that NHS unions had scheduled another action for November 24, and had to be reprimanded by other union officials.

Spanswick has already announced that he will retire early. After this performance, he should be Within days of the coalfield ballot, the Coal Board's soothing words about pit closures had been exposed as dies.

With the NCB denying any detailed plans for closures, the miners' vote was decided by the pay issue, which did have figures and wl da dates attached.

By Sunday the figures with the ¿conomic crisis? reformist socialist governments have come to power in conditions of acute economic crisis and apparently uncontrollable mass unemployment.

Much of the fate of Spain and of European Social Democracy. therefore.

and details on pit closures were-coming out. On Tuesday Arthur Scargill revealed documents leaked from the NCB, outlining plans to close pits at the rate of two million tonnes capacity per litar, and listing 75 'shortlife' pits.

Scargill stressed that the ballot result did not mean that the NUM would accept closures. Proposals for a new ballot on closures alone are likely for the next NUM executive meeting, and should be supported. called on to resign immediately - and the TUC Health Service committee should elect a new chairpersone 1 iN HS sent de prom across the country, meeting in Sheffield last Saturday, decided on a plan of campaign for November 8 and for a "yes' vote on the all-out action.

SEE PAGES 7 and 9. hangs on the prospects of the government which Felipe Gonzalez is about to establish.

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