Social vorker: picket
Socialist Press1978 1978-08-30Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 10 →
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NEWS already under occupation, had pickets on its front gates this week-this time not manned by hospital workers but by the social workers striking in Tower Hamlets.
Six hospitals in the area are being picketed due to the activities of non-union medical social workers.
About 200 social workers have been out since Monday 21 August as part of the fight for their regrading claim.
At present the demand is for the basic right to local negotiations-steadfastly rejected by the Labour-controlled authority since NALGO adopted the policy earlier this year.
Many social workers take home as little as f40 a week-a fact which lies at the basis of crippling staff shortages and inadequate services.
Messages of support and donations to: NALGO Social Services Strike Committee, 13, Wellington Way, London E3.