[Workers at the University College and St. Pancras…]
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Workers at the University College and St. Pancras hospitals have agreed at mass Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital, threatened with closure and now operating on an emergency basis.
At UCH, only essential services will be maintained on July z1st while the strikers picket the EGA and then march to the House of Commons to lobby MPs and try to see David Ennals.
This call for strike action follows a series of pickets and meetings against closure of the EGA.
On 5th July a picket of the hospital, supported by. health workers from all over London, marched to a meeting of the Area Health Authority to demand that it oppose the. closure. The AHA, predictably, refused to commit itself to anything but the setting up of a new committee!
The strike action called for the 21st July is a correct and vital move in defence of the EGA.
However, workers must not have illusions that lobbying MPs or meeting with the Secretary of State will change the situation. David Ennals supports a "slim" health service, that is, he supports_the Labour government's of closures.
And not a single MP has so fa the campaign has received. Onl action by neath workers wi defend the health service, and wi outside support around individu closures.
"GUERRILLA TACTICS"
The announcement by th NUPE executive that it will bacl "guerrilla tactics" against the cut gives a necessary lead in th We support this move and cal on the NUPE executive to giv official backing to this strike, t instruct its officers to mobilis their members in support of th strike on the 21st July throughou the Camden and islington area, anı to fight through the Joint Sho Stewards Committee for full sur port from the other unions in th hospitals.
*It is interesting that NALG( which officially sits on the Nationa Coordinating Committee Agains the Cuts in the Health Service is th only one of the hospital union involved which has refused to giv support to the call for strike action
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