Ready for Fowler
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are banned and have given up for X-rays and houses a physio. LABOUR'S POLICIES NUCLEAR ARMS© bra quo, his perspectives extended right up to the barrier of what can be done by administrative policy within a capitalist society, and no further. THE occupation of Thornton View Hospital continues to run smoothly, with picket lines still strong for 24 hours a day.
The picket lines are staffed by the local labour movement and community as well as by hospital workers, with the Labour Party taking responsibility for a block of the picketing rota. There is a supporters' committee, distinct from the occupation committee, which organises sympathisers who don't work inside the hospital. • The occupation committee has tightened management access to the hospital. Until last week lower management could come and go at will, providing they gave notice. Now they are restricted to two days and one night. All senior management trying to get in.
The hospital is waiting for Fowler to make his fina decision. Hazel Ward, a NUPF steward for the nurses says that the occupation will continue to "make sure the hospital isn 1 run down" even when Fowler does insist on the closure. "It will be up to them to move in and evacuate the hospital. St. Benedicts Hospital occupa. tion in South London ended with a raid. The police herded nurses into a room to make way for private ambulances to move out the patients. That could happen here. We will have to wait and see."
The same Regio al Health Authority (Yorkshire) is trying to close the Shipley Hospital which is a special unit with 23 pre convalescence beds. it's a centre therapy unit.
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