'This fight should not just be left to the members
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of South London women's hospital, Andrea Campbell and Debbie Cameron interviewed Frank Faulkner, NUPE Branch Secretary (Bolingbroke and South London Hospitals).
WHAT is management saying about the closure?
I've written to the DMT (District Management Team) three times, asking about the situation, requesting figures about bed capacity in the District and for other information.
Three times, and they have not replied.
What support from NUPE?
I'm disgusted. It should not just be left to the members. The top people in the union should do something. It gives the members a lack of confidence in the union.
If the one area officer doesn't support the demonstration and pickets it's bad. He always says he was busy. But what could be more important than this demonstration today?
They know all about it at head office. They sent a reporter to write something for NUPE news. Then they only put a small article on the back page.
Management are putting a lot of pressure on union reps in this district. One has resigned under severe pressure. Another is being harassed because he raised the question of asbestos in his hospital. We need •support.
Women We Need Is the hospital being maintained?
What they are trying to do now is scare people.
Two doctors from St. Doctors the Suith Because it keeps the hospital upgraded. If we didn't pressure them through the Health & Safewomen Queen Elizabeth house?
We keep getting told by the Tories that they haven't got the money.
Do you think that is true?
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