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by Ben Chacko at Hamilton House
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EVERY available trade unionist needs to be outside a hospital with “delegations and banners” when nurses take strike action on December 15 and 20, a nurses’ rep told the Campaign for Trade Union Freedom conference on Saturday.
The From Pentonville to P&O: Union Rights and Tory Wrongs meeting at the National Education Union HQ in London’s Kings Cross saw hundreds of activists meet to discuss existing and threatened attacks on unions and the current strike wave.
Dave Carr, a Unite rep working in the NHS, said health workers had lived with “reorganisation after reorganisation after reorganisation” in recent years, “a calamity of mismanagement and attacks.”
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