[WHAT? ARE YOU THKEATENING ME, YOU NO SIR…]
Socialist Press1980 1980-01-09Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 11 →
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WHAT? ARE YOU THKEATENING ME, YOU NO SIR, YOU MISUNDERSTAND!" POMPOUS, BIG-MOUTHED LITTLE RUNT? FOR ME! I CORD GET SICN IT AND EXCUSE ME... NOT TROUELE FOR YOU TROUBLE SCALPED FOR THIS, UNLÊSS...
OW The fraud of "compara bility" exercises as a means of raising low wages has once more been exposed by the findings of the Clegg commission into nurses pay. * * Middie nursing grades get a settlement of 25%, only a few percent above the present annual rate of inflation and far from adequate to compensate, for years of low wages.
But nursing auxiliaries receive only a wage cutting 4.3 -14.2% rise-far less than the rate of inflation. And student nurses are to get only a 17% increase.
Blind alley
Health unions and the Royal College of Nursing, whose combined efforts directed nurses into the blind alley of "comparability" in the first place, have now issued a chorus of hypocritical condemnation. - But the fact is that in the health service, as in local authorities, the only means of achieving a living wage. is through a sustained programme of strike action.
This lesson must not be lost on teachers. Their leaders have been relying upon Clegg, rather Nup than industrial action to win them a living wage. Now they find that not even the promised report will materialise this month-let alone a pay increase!
STEEL From back page where convenors meet this week to consider the company's 5% pay offer-strike action must be taken alongside the steel workers. "Councils of action should be formed in the steel towns, drawing delegates fròm trade union and political bodies to coordinate maximum support for mass picketing and blacking action and seek to extend and generalise the struggle in confrontation with the Tory The Welsh TUC is correct to call for general strike action against the steel and NCB closures: but this fight must be carried into the full TUC, with a call for all out strike action alongside the steelworkers, to bring down this anti-union, job slashing, wage-cutting, social service wrecking Tory government.
THIS IS NO TIME FOR YOUR MOCK HERONS, SIDNEY WETLE SKINT-AND YOUR LOT HAVE GOT TO BAIL US OUT, SO SIGN THIS! ...I MUST HIT THE HEADLINES QUCKLY WITH ANOTHER DEAFENING BLAST OF STEEL SOLIDARITY!
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SSE Looking for a way out-Bill Sirs