Cohse Claim
Socialist Press1977 1977-05-11Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 10 →
Read from the scan by machine and not corrected: expect misread words, and now and then a caption or a line from a neighbouring story. For anything you quote, read the scan.
Scan page 10
A group of nurses at the Central Hospital near Warwick, mainly trainees, have produced an Open Letter to all COHSE members, signed by 21 people which explains exactly how little of the £2.50 a week members would receive after increased lodging charges and deductions and outlined policies to defend and improve nurses' pay.
Since there was no chance of putting a motion forward for COHSE's annual conference in preparation for the national wage negotiations in the NHS they were forced to support a motion from the East Birmingham branch.
This opposed the Social Contract and goes on to put four demands to constitute an immedlate claim.
London health service trade union full-time officials have recently formed themselves into a committee.
The first initiative of this new committee was to call a meeting on April 29 for the full time officials, certain selected lay members, and invited representatives of the Com"1. A £15 a week increase across the board for all National Health Service workers; 2. The automatic protection of wages against inflation by increasing them weekly by the same percentage rise as that registered by the monthly retail Price Index. 3. The immediate consolidation of the 'contract' Stages One and Two pay settlements into the basic rate; 4. The full introduction of a thirty-five hour week by the end of 1977."
The motion, however, conspicuously fails to call for strike action, as the only effective way to fight for this claim.
Unanimous backing for the motion was obtained at a branch meeting-the first quorate meeting since November 1974 |!] and the branch voted to affiliate to Leamington Trades Council, sending four delegates.
EDENARE 1 SE 300 AUEW members at the COHSE STOP CUTS volt train for le ENUCATION Has trade unior FIGHT GUTS Britains plans and were to be sacked. This On Friday May 6, members of the AUEW, EETPU and Boilermakers' Society at Chadburns Engineering, Liverpool, walked out on a haltday strike, to be followed by an indefinite overtime ban and a policy of non-cooperation, demanding a scheme for sick pay.
The action was to