[Meetings designed to extend the strike action in…]
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Meetings designed to extend the strike action in defence of NUPE Branch Chairman Conway Xavier are taking place as we go to press.
Xavier was sacked without notice from his job as Deputy Head Porter at Great Ormond Street Hospital as a result of management moves to crush action in defence of a porter sacked at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hackney.
The immediate walk-out by around 100 NUPE members in his defence was met by scabbing organised by the hospital's Head Porter-who is chairman of the local COHSE branch!
The NUPE Are Committee is to meet to discuss action•to p: victimisation.
FT THE victimisation of 20 machine managers halted production of the Financial Times on Sunday night. The 20 men had been fighting for renegotiation of their house agreement. Party-but already fellow right wingers are moving in to protect her and to attack the hospital occupation:
This they are finding virtually impossible to do. Oxford and District Trades Union Council has given its unanimous support and union branches including the rightwing led 5/60 Branch of the TGWU at Cowley have begun to send money and give practical Must win The communities of Longworth and surrounding villages are sending up pickets Whole families can be seen doing gate duty.
It is vital that the discrepancy is exposed throughout the Labour Party between those Labour and trade union leaders carrying out the attacks on the working class and those fighting for socialist policies.
The Longworth Hospital occupation must win and be a beacon for those fighting to defend health services.
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