Yorkshire ancillary staffs march in Leeds Hospital strikers need wider support

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AS WORKERS from Gulson Road hospital, Coventry, return to work today after a week's stoppage, two other local hospitals start a one week's strike.

These are the Whitley Geriatric Hospital and the Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital. Next Friday, March 30, all hospitals in Coventry, Rugby and Nuneaton will hold a 24-hour closedown.

At a meeting last week Coventry Trades Council decided to call a demonstration in support of the hospital workers. All affiliated and factory organizations are to be asked to join the demonstration.

A UNION official has warned that if there is another allegation in the Westmorland area that a patient had died from lack of emergency hospital treatment, there would be an immediate stoppage by ancillary workers at the hospital involved, until the claim had been fully investigated.

Mr Colin Barnett, north-west divisional officer of the National Union of Public Employees, was commenting after last Thursday's remarks by York • coroner Mr Anthony Morris that a woman had died because her admission to hospital was delayed by the ancillary workers strike.

'Things can never be the same in hospital • industrial relations,' he said, 'and ancillary workers can never be treated the same again.

'No matter what the TUC does, we can get support from other trade unions, because we can't win on our own. We've got to get support from other workers.

'We are not asking for engineers and miners to come out for us, but to show their support.' He said it was not an easy fight because they could not close the hospitals completely. The public had to be kept on the side of the ancillary workers.

He went on: 'The pay laws are STAR TREK. Amok Time.

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COME DANCING. 11.20 NEWS. VIEWPOINT. 11.45 Weather. 5:30 8.00 8.30 9.00 10.30 11.15 11.45 12.15 FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT not fair. The percentages do not help the lower-paid workers. If the government claims that the public is behind it, then let's have a General Election.' Mr Ambler, national executive member of Confederation of Health Service Employees and chairman of the meeting, said: 'The ancillary workers have not had a sudden rush of blood to the head-it's the lack of food in their bellies that drives them to action.' Infantry He said that workers who had been the least experienced in the trade union movement had been turned into the infantry of the movement today.

Terry Mallinson, COHSE national officer, said the government had lost all credibility and demanded an independent inquiry. He attacked the witch-hunting in the capitalist Press. Coles Cranes' strikers return WORKERS at Coles • Cranes, Sunderland, the scene of a 12-week battle for jobs, voted overwhelmingly at a mass meeting at Sunderland Civic Centre on Saturday-only six against — to remove the pickets and start a return to work from today.

They then staged victory march through the main streets.

The basis for the resumption was worked out at a meeting last Friday at a local hotel between the owner of Coles Cranes, Mr Alphonse de Vigier, company executives, Len Edmondson, executive councillor from the AUEW and other national and local trade union officials.

A joint statement signed after the talks called for the return of staff and essential services today followed by CORONATION STREET.

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Under the terms of the resumption de Vigier was forced to accept a union document which calls for the honouring of all agreements and no victimization.

In an adjoining document de Vigier set out the company terms which were also accepted by the officials and shop stewards.

De Vigier said there could be a full return to work if only one issue-that of timefixing in the assembly shop-could be agreed. This was vital if the company was to remain competitive.

The second point calls for 'negotiations with shop stewards and union officials with an independent chairman from the Department of Employment on assembly shop times to take place on March 20 and 30.° A Transport and General Workers' Union official from the co-ordinating committee said: 'There was a demo in Sheffield yesterday [Friday] and some of out in the afternoon. That's not oul ilac alle noon. lals nol enough. The transport should come out as well.' He said the May Day strike was too far away. But he could only recommend a token stoppage before that date. He called for a one-day stoppage of all ancillary workers in Yorkshire.

The meeting cheered the news that the private wards in Leeds and Halifax had been closed down by the strike.

Tommy Wright, a NUPE steward at the Leeds General Infirmary, said:

'The government says it Is short of money. Yet members of the Pay Board are getting £16,000 a year. If the government is so sure it has the support of the public, why not try it out with an election?

'This strike, in a way, is a political strike. If the government can be overthrown, so much the better.' De Vigier's went on: 'Serious negotiations with shop stewards and union officials are to start on Wednesday, April 4, on how to make the works a viable proposition. lhe unions agree with the company that changes in method of production would be accepted In addition the company insists on the following points: • That there must be methods of establishing THE LABOUR Party pledged support for the of protest on May Day.

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