Support Ega - but How?
Socialist Press1977 1977-02-16Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 10 →
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NHS 1T19 Those London health service workers and frade unionists who attended yet another "Support the EGA" conference on Saturday 12th February in the hospital's elegant boardroom must be wondering just where the EGA shop stewards stand on defence of their hospital.
This conference was originally initiated by the International Socialists (now the SWP) to mobilise shop stewards outside the health service, but representing groups of workers in the EGA locality.
It ended up, however, not as a delegate conference of shop stewards, but as an ad-hoc roomful of EGA supporters, some from the health service, most from various left groups.
Three EGA stewards shared the platform, supplying information on the occupation which was already coinmon knowledge to most present.
Most illuminating were the questions raised from the floor about the occupation and the role of the consultants.
Workers looking to the EGA stewards for a lead were disappointed to learn that they have not confronted the problems which will arise when the AHA cuts off the hospital's power and/or supplies or the workers' wages.
'NO HOPE'
And Pam Jones, NUPE steward, stated clearly that the occupation had "no hope of continuing" without at least passive support by the consultants.
So the fate of the EGA, the defence of jobs of ancilliary workers and nurses and of the health service of the working class are to be subjected to the whims of the doctors,