One-day
Socialist Press1979 1979-12-12Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 11 →
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THE CUTS campaign in South Yorkshire-which initia. ted the November 28 mass lobby subsequently annexed by the Labour Party-has called on the local Association of Trades Councils to organise a one-day strike on Monday February 18.
And campaign leaders have aed the TUC to call a 24-hour racional stoppage against the cats.
These calts should be supmad: bart they remain restric.
at to the objective of "forcing ne frami to change its The red task is to force toniost of office. • the size • the size of the civil service frOM nOW mands' In the next six months more outs will result from major reviews being carried out in the Departments of Health and Social Security and Environment, the Ministry of Defence and the Inland Reveque.
The review in the DHSS threatens thousands of jobs and represents a major attack on the already inadequate social security system.
Scrap benefit
The review plans to scrap state sickness benefit for'-the first eight weeks of illness and transfer this responsibility to the employers.
If this proposal is implemented there will be a loss of 5,000 jobs while thousands of workers will find themselves deprived of sick pay or engaged in prolonged wrangles with
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