Sell Out
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Don't miss The engineers at Charing Cross Hospital decided at a meeting last week to end their six week strike and return to work without their two victimised colleagues.
These two engineers have now been suspended on full pay pending the outcome of their appeals against dismissal.
They were sacked for implementing the policy of their union by working to rule as a protest against cuts in services and dangerously low manning levels.
The strike that followed was in defence of jobs and services at the hospital.
Management's provocative actions and breaking of agreed procedure made clear their intention of breaking the unionisation of the engineers to limit the degree of opposition to the cuts Six issues...
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During the dispute a vicious witch-hunt was mounted by the Fleet Street press culminating in a stage managed counter-picket by doctors, nurses and blanket draped cancer patients, no doubt spurred on by management's deliberate threats to close down the hospital.
The role played by the union bureaucracy at district and national level during the strike amounts to a major sell out.
The North London District AUEW failed to organise the necessary support for the strike, while the national executive refused even to call for the immediate reinstatement of the sacked engineers and refused to make the strike official.
Instead they ordered the strikers back to work.
The line taken by the SUBSCRIPTK AUEW leadership shows their eagerness to respond to Fleet Street's lies and their inability to give even a limited lead in the fight against the cuts.
The results of this strike will strengthen the position of the Charing • Cross management within the hospital and will encourage others to follow suit in attempts* to destroy trade union organisation.
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