10- 'warm up' action
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for their public support.
TONY PAY O SE AS HEA! TH w rk: is s a er one-hou s rikes agairs the 4 per cent pay limi on April 14. the CoHSE leadership announced further action.
Members will: ban non-emergency adınissions; ban admission of privale patients to Health Service hospitals; refuse to cooperare with private hospital conirarors; orga, ise selective tw.-hour strikes; and impose a strict wark-to-rule over administration duties by nurses and other staff.
This is supposed to be a build-up for further, more militant action.
But:
• The action does not star! until April 26 - a month after the settlement date. At this rate of 'warming up' we'll be at next year's settlement before the action develops into an all-out strike..
More and more health service union members are realising that all-out action - with emergency cover under workers' control - is the only way to win.
• Branches are not instructed to carry out the action [with local decisions on HOW to implement it], only authorised. This will weaken branches in face of management, especially in action like a ban on non-emergency admissions, which is potentially effective but difficult to carry out in face of determinedly hostile management and senior medical staff.
NUPE is deciding on its action on Friday 16th. Rank and file members of all the health service unions need to press their demands for united and decisive action by all the unions.