NALGO vote for —action on nurses- pay

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NALGO represents 3050,000 nurses, and the forms of action considered include a ban on overtime, refusal to supervise wards unaided, and a refusal to wake patients earlier than Each of these forms of action would clearly benefit patients-but it is essential that union leaders prepare the membership for strike action to secure a wage increase to defend living standards against inflation.

Telegrams

In NUPE, health service official Bob Jones has admitted receiving telegrams, phone calls and letters calling for a fight to improve on the 14%.

Meanwhile leaders of the nurses "professional boot the Royal College Nursing, have set their faces "It's wonderful gesture" he enthused. "These people are putting patients before themselves", raved Duffy, who only weeks ago voted himself a thumping 26% pay increase.

The fact is that the RCN is, as always, putting mangement interests before those of their members: nurses who wish to defend the NHS and defend their own living standards should leave the RCN and fight for action in one of the health service trade unions.

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