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Pickets at Prestwich IN EDINBURGH, Rossynlee Hospital has gone on an all-out strike for six days over a domestic who was suspended for following COHSE guidelIncs.

Gogarburn Hospital has banned all non-emergency admissions.

NUPE: South Hospitals branch has voted for all-out strike action. A joint shop stowards mecting at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital has been called for Monday May 10, and will discuss this motion. The local leadership in CoHSE will suppori the strike call, and the debate wil centre round who controls emergency cover. government's vicious four per cent limit.

The CoHSE section at the Area Health Authority supplies department stopped work completely and picketed; canteen workers stopped at the Regional Health Authority; and another hospital which had decided to come out for half a day stayed out for the whole day.

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Back at Littlemore Hospital, the kitchen porters had stopped completely, and management, who had said they would not take the food trolleys to wards, ended up backing down and doing just that!.

Nurses took turns in coming out for four hours at a time.

At 4pm, a delegation visited the Cowley car factstrike that day. For 2½ hours, no-one came out.

They had invited the press in straight after their meeting, instead of seeing us.

While the rest of us caught the bus back to Oxford, one member stayed behind. He later reported back that the TUC had decided to coordinate... nothing.

Unlike these bureaucrats, we cannot afford to wait. For CoHSE members in Oxford, taking strike action and persuading other workers to come out with us has made us start to realise our own strength like nothing else could do.

We must continue to show our union leaders that we are not prepared to sit around only making helpless gestures. We must force them to call strike action with union control of emergency services nationally