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with NUPE. disciplinar nreats ov manacement policy. prepared. With the Labour Party conference approaching, several organisations are now calling for lobbies and demonstrations against the Government's cuts. At the weekend a meeting called under the direction of the North West Council of the TUC initiated a joint union committee against the cuts and called for a march in Blackpool on the eve of the conference. The National Union of Public Employees has also now called for a lobby against the cuts. In the interests of unity, the National Co-ordinating Committee Against Cuts in the NHS-which had already called for a lobby on Wednesday 29 September to demand the implementation of conference policy on the health service-will now be coordinating its arrangements AND Norfolk Area Health Authority have recently come up with the perfect way of introducing the Government's cuts. Instead of engaging in proper consultations with the Joint Shop Stewards comminee, uney taik wit tner own "set up'-the District Joint Staff Consultative Committee. The unions are effectively by-passed.

And they've been having some interesting "discussions'. Unbeknown to the mass of shop stewards within the District, a "Consultative Document' prepared by the District Management Team has been discussed. This indicates closure of two hospitals and a

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