IMGpapers 1968–75

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1968–75

Nurses step up fight

Red Weekly No. 54, 30 May 1974 · p. 1 of the scan · 147 words

The scan: rw-no54-may-30-1974.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 1 of the scan

Labour's decision to set up a special inquiry into nurses pay has not stopped the nurses pushing ahead Demonstrations and industrial action continue across the country and one of the musses' unions, the Confederation of Health Service Employees (COHSE), has called on its 75,000 members to bar nonnursing duties and overtime in sopport of the demand for an interim award of C6, pending the report of the inquiry Bot the inquiry stall holds its dangers All the unions, and tho Royal College of Nursing (RCNI, have accepted the inquiry, despite the fact that it is based on spocial ease plending which will argue that the nurses are 'different from the rest of the Labour Government has already succeeded in sowing discord antong the nurses organisations, with NUPE and the RCN attacking COHSE's trespons bility (continued on back pagel chester in support of the nurses claim

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