Defend health service

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Demonstration in support of EGA. This hospital has been kept open for two years as a result of an occupation and campaign throughout the London labour movement Some 300 trade unionists picketed the Birmingham Area Health Authority on Thursday (February 23) against the imminent closure of Romsley Hill. a small geriatric hospital.

The picket was called by BACHCCS-the Birmingham Action Committee Against Hospital Closures and Cuts in Services-an organisation set up by hospital workers when ine AllA Inreatenea Io close dhar A TI A -1. eight hospitals immediately and annther caven nver the next ten years.

Already workers at Romsley have voted to refuse talks on re-deployment or redundancies and they have refused access to anyone seeking to transfer patients.

Similar stands must be taken in all the other hospitals and the campaign Committee must turn towards forcing local health service trade union leaders into protecting their members' interests and making a real fight against health service cuts.

A public meeting has been called by BACHCCS on Wedfighting for a two part gramme at this meeting.

This will be: firstly to obtain increased support from a wider base in the labour movement including industrial workers: and secondlv to demand the UNILLUIIM LILL leadership of the public sector unions pledge themselves to call area-wide strike action in response to any attempts to close these hospitals.

Union leaders who have talked about defending the health service must either do COHSE CO.

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