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policies to defend jobs, wages and social services responsible to nobody.

In response to the coming attack, the local Joint Trade Union Committee of the Health Service unions has resolved unanimously to:

1) Defend al jobs and establish for every unit and occupation safe manning standards against attempts at de-manning the service.

2) Organise a stoppage of work with essential patient cover, to attend a lobby of the Health Authority's meeting.

The JTUC is also demanding that the Authority announce all job losses:

The JTUC itself is to publish news of the intended cuts and the fight against them in a regular bulletin.

These militant decisions must be concretised into an absolute refusal to work below established manning levels or to cover tor jobs left vacant by the non-replacement of staff who leave.

Freeze

Finally, if the management continues to refuse to fill vacancies the unions must reply with a freeze on patient admissions.

If the closure of any unit or hospital is threatened, the only possible answer is to occupy to keep the unit working and to back that action with an areawide indefinite strike in support until the unit is saved.

CUTS IN WAGE CUTS EXPENDR the answers in fighting

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The 28th Biennial Delgate Conference of the Transport and General Workers Union ended in "recognises that occupations -including work-ins, sit-ins and squatting are an important tactic for our movement in the workplace, in the community and in colleges; and condemns the creation of new criminal offences and the use of the

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