[Two weeks after the planned closure date, Hounslow…]
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Two weeks after the planned closure date, Hounslow Hospital remains open, due to the determined and exemplary struggle waged by the staff, local trade unions, doctors and the local community.
When Callaghan's axe chopped into the 76/77 budget of the Ealing, Hounslow and Hammersmith Area Health Authority, their response was to plan the closure of Hounslow Hospital's 66 beds.
The staff response was to organise a "work-in" as pioneered at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital.
A recent experience had demonstrated that more than the defence of the Health Service and jobs was involved.
Following the closure of Brentford Hospital (by the same Area, Health Authority) geriatric patients had been transferred to the West Middlesex against their wishes.
This environmental uprooting was the major, if not exclusive factor in the deaths of four out of seven of these patients within a North East London Polytechnic, the scene of the bitter and prolonged 'Blue Asbestos' cleaners' dispute has suffered another attack on the workers in that area with the threatened closure of the Hubb Nursery.
The nursery, which caters for about thirty children of students and local workers is threatened payment for the portable huts.
Brosen's action was cynically approved by two local Labour Councillors on the JEC.
Brosen plans to implement the closure of the nursery by removal of the huts. TGWU members should black any such action, and members of the Labour Party must raise this matter in their local party branches.
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As one of the strikers on the picket line at the Desoutter Brothers factory in North London wittily remarked last week, the • INDUSTRIAL NEWS I Page I1