By Martin Barclay
Socialist Organiser1983 1983-05-12Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 14 →
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NUP 2 HeiD Tin rOVA NO Dol Tol MOISTIO chair, Unit 3 health branch, South Glamorgar (in personal capacity)
would leave the area with a 9 to 5, weekdays only health service.
Private Contractors like Pritchards and OCS Cleaning Ltd. have been lined up to move in by the DHSS Headquarters, to take over cleaning, catering and laundry services.
Where hospital staff are not actually replaced by contractors there will be attempts to tighten up on bonus schemes and sickness, etc., in a bid to make departments 'compete' against the contractors.
The Agenda of this year's Conference reflects the anger of NUPE members to these threats to their livelihood. There are a large number of motions opposing privatisation and private medicine, but the most useful ones are those put forward by Gateshead Central and Edinburgh Hospital While NUPE's has been one of the few union leaderships to stand firm against the witch hunt in the Labour Party, it has done nothing to step witch-hunting in NUPE itself.
Oxford NUPE activist Anne Marie Sween ey, well-known in struggles to defend nurseries, health facilities, and social services, is still suspended by the Oxford County branch under a series of trumped-up charges raised by the Branch Secretary. 'Her main "crime"? Writing to NUPE's NEC to question