The present national NUPE position on the cuts is for action to be taken against redundancies and cuts on a local, nospitar by nospital basis. Ine NUPE leadership oppose the Social Contract - instead they plead for the implementation of the Government's side of this hollow bargain.
But locally even this has been hidden from the membership: by the right wing in the branch, who have a stranglehold; and by machinery itself -erature for 17 November was sent to only, and it was left to the memberPAUL MITCHELL, National Union of Public Employees shop steward at Southampton General Hospital, writes on what NUPE is doing about the cuts.
November demonstration has been called as a mere protest in response to growing pressure from the base of the union. What NUPE should be also refuse to doing (and must if we are to roll back the cuts) is to organise mass action on a national basis around policies the present policies being pursued by the Government.
will refuse to do this — it would call union into question the mobilising littask of militants in the public sector unions is to light for me organisd tion of this kind in action; particurecently found out.
which are definitely counterposed to committee!
Of course, the union bureaucracy and threaten their own position. The
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nurseries labour movement must be exposed to the working class so that a fightback based on mass action can be prepared, All Labour councillors who colsuch replaced removed and prepared to fight. projects should be those • Labour SECTOR