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Shopworkers' union Usdaw declares: 'One year to save NHS from Tory privatisation'
Shopworkers come out firmly against the government’s NHS privatisation agenda, declaring that the country only has a year to save it

Shopworkers came out firmly against the government’s NHS privatisation agenda yesterday, declaring that the country only had one year to save it.

Passions ran high in the debate with delegates heaping praise on NHS staff and condemning the Tory-led government handing out contracts to private healthcare companies.

Moving the successful motion which accused the government of playing “Russian roulette with peoples’ lives,” Morrison’s north delegate Michael Green called on members to put pressure on their MPs to demand services — and proper staff wages — are funded.

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