The Westminster at centre of fight
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With sixteen London hospitals due to strike on Monday morning in support of the f60 public sector pay claim, the stubborn struggle against victimisation at the Westminster Hospital in London became the centre of a strikebreaking offensive last weekend.
Suspended
Despite the fact that six NUPE members remained suspended after refusing to clean the private wing of the hospital as part of the union's "selective" action, a succession of union bureaucrats and Labour government bigwigs aided by the hacks of Fleet Street piled on the pressure for an end to the strike in their defence:
: Shaken NUPE NEC members were visibly shaken and General Secretary Fisher protected by police from angry lobbyers as they met on Saturday and instructed the | Westminster workers to refer their case to ACAS.
the Workers Socialist (London). Registered 'Top level meetings involving Len Murray and Health Secretary Ennals finally concluded at 4 am on Monday 5 February with Ennals instructing hospital management to send the dispute to ACAS.
Under huge pressure from officials, Branch Secretary Jamie Morris finally also agreed on his own behalf to submit the case to ACAS, and to call a branch meeting at which a return to work would be voted on .
Picket lines
But meanwhile the other 16 hospitals that had voted over the weekend to strike in solidarity with the Westminster and for the £60 claim were already manning picket lines.
The press sought to sow confusion by claiming that the strikes at these 16 hospitals had also been called off along with that at the Westminster but as we go to press there is no indication that these strikes are weakening.
There could be no clearer demonstration of the willingness of workers to fight and the determination of their leaders to hold them back.
League, 31, Dartmouth Park Hill, London as a newspaper at the Post Office.
Astrid Prolf-the woman alleged by the West German state to be a former member of the. Baader-Meinhof terrorist gang-has lost another round in her struggle against extradition from Britain.
Trade unionists and Labour Party members should urgently take up the fight for resolutions
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