Warwickshire Plan to 'save Jobs

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While workers at two more small London hospitals now threatened with closure have taken the decision to occupy, Monday 18 April is likely to be the date of the first •real test of labour movement support for the first ever hospital occupation.

Workers at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital, Euston Road, London, have been told by managedate has twice been postponed. A confrontation with EGA workers and their supporters has thus been avoided so far by management.

But there is no room for complacency. The occupation and 24-hour picket has remained a token protest throughout its existence, no attempt being made by the EGA workers to take control of the day to day running of the hospital.

The day that management moves to take out patients and equipment will therefore be the first real Warwickshire County Council has proposed measures which i t claims will save jobs in the supervisors' section of the schoolmeals service.

From September the supervisors are to be employed on temporary contracts on a termly basis.

Schoolmeals kitchen workers are already the victims of this sort of agreement.

'NATURAL WASTAGE' Sold to the workers as a way of defending jobs, the agreement has been used to employ 'natural wastage' as a weapon against the existing number of posts.

At Manor Park School, Nuneaton, a woman employed on a and unless there is resistance, will very soon be a non-existant post.

FURTHER CUTS

Kitchen workers at Manor Park should refuse to cover the work done by the woman who has been This example is just the thin end of the wedge. In September when school meals prices rise there will be a further cut in staff. The only way to prevent this is all out strike action.

Nuneaton Trades Council Executive has taken the initiative. in attempting to co-ordinate the anti-cuts campaigns of the public sector unions.

The first step of this cuts committee must be the establishment of a Joint Shop Stewards Committee for the public sector unions.