COHSE North West Banner 10th July 1982 TUC Rally, Manchester
John Smith (IFL)
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Showing posts with label 12% pay campaign. Show all posts
Thursday, May 26, 2016
COHSE North West Banner July 1982
COHSE North West Banner 10th July 1982 TUC Rally, Manchester
John Smith (IFL)
Wednesday, May 25, 2016
Miners Support NHS Workers 1982
COHSE nurses march with South Wales Miners in Cardiff 16th June 1982
33 South Wales went on strike in support of NHS workers 12% pay claim
On June 8th 50,000 on strike to support NHS workers in solidarity in Midlands and Yorkshire
Scottish miners strike in solidarity 23 June 1982
June NHS pay marches in Birmingham 3,000, 3,000 in Bristol, 700 i Leicester, 400 Wolverhampton, 500 Hackney, 500 Islington, Dundee, Paisley, Carlisle, Liverpool, West Yorkshire, Middlesborough, Nottingham, Aylesbury, Newry, Derry
Many miners went on strike again on the National TUC Day of Action for NHS Pay on 22 September 1982
Tuesday, May 24, 2016
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Bangour Hospital Nurses on Strike April 1982
Jim Devine Branch Secretary at Banour Hospital, Scotland built up a formidable progressive COHSE branch at the Hospital, along with the Branch Chairman "Tam"
In 1980 the branch set up a well produced printed newsletter after purchasing a professional printing press "Bangour Free Press"
Jim later became a charismatic and energetic COHSE regional officer becoming the undisputed champion of NHS staff in Scotland and later still a Labour MP.
Bangour Hospital Closed in 1989
COHSE Bangour Hospital banner 1980
COHSE Bangour branch banner at Cheltenham GCHQ Demo 1988
Saturday, March 15, 2014
Friday, February 21, 2014
Sunday, September 15, 2013
NHS Pay - London Demonstration 22 September 1982
Wednesday
22 September 1982 was one of the largest acts of solidarity in the
British trade union history, with millions on strike and a national
rally in London with 120,000 taking part. There were demonstrations in
the following towns (not full list)
Aberdeen 12,000
Inverness 1,000
Elgin 500
Lerwick 400
Oban 100
Stornaway 500
Dundee 10,000
Edinburgh 10,000
Kirkcaldy 2,000
Glasgow 20,000
Dumfries 1,000
Newcastle 5,000
York 1,000
Sheffield 10,000
Barnsley 1,000
Leeds 6,000
Hull 4,000
Chesterfield 3,000
Manchester 2,000
St Helens 2,000
Liverpool 20,000
Bolton 2,000
Blackpool 400
Wigan 5,000
Leek 300
Coventry 2,000
Gloucester 500
Hereford 400
Swindon 1,000
Milton Keynes 1,200
Cambridge 2,000
Colchester 1,000
Braintree 100
Norwich 2,000
Kings Lynn 300
Harleston 500
Fakenham 100
Southampton 1,500
Bournemouth 1,000
Eastbourne 500
Yeovil 1,000
Belfast 3,000
Derry 3,000
Armagh 300
Ballymena 200
Enniskillen 350
Swansea 1,000
Aberystwyth 200
Rhondda 500
Sunday, September 21, 2008
12% Campaign - Coventry Hospitals Bike Ride 1982
1982 Coventry - London 12% campaign Bike Ride
By JIM SAUNDERS
August 1982
health workers are biking to downing street as part of the action week, starting today fourty Coventry health service workers will carry their protest against the government's pay policy by bike to London.
They will leave Coventry today, calling en route at Banbury, Oxford, Hillingdon and arrive in Central London midday Friday.
Among the bike's are six tandems. The riders include nurses, ancillary and maintenance wor-
kers as well as professional and technical- staff drawn from Coventry's hospitals.
They will deliver a petition to No. 10 Downing Street and present a bill for
£325,000 to Health Minister Norman Fowler.
This is the amount the Coventry District Health Authority would have rto find to meet the government's health service wage formula. It has already overspent on its budget.
"The truth is," says Lloyd Randall, secretary of the NUPE hospitals branch in the city,
"there is not a 6 per cent offer.
It is just 4 per cent and an offer to cannibalise the service to meet the other 2 per cent."
PICKET LINES
In addition to being divisive. the Tory government tactics will also mean the loss of up to 80
jobs in the city's hospitals.
The bikers will link up with local health service co-ordinating committees on their journey.
They are offerins to join picket lines at hospitals and speak at meetings. But they also hope
that other trade unionists will turn out in force to greet them.
They will be joined in London bv strikers whose seven week action has reduced the central sterile supplies depot to emergency only.
Nurses at the outpatients department oi the Coventry and Warwick Hospital, as well as
maintenance and boilerhouse workers in Walsgrave and other hospitals also plan to impose
sanctions in the coming week.
A meeting in Birmingham ot local health service union co- ordinating committees support-
ed calls from Coventry for the TUC to sharpen up the action on health service pay.
AN ULTIMATUM
A resolution adopted "calls on the TUC health service committee to support a call for an ultimatum for an all-out strike from September 1 by all TUC health service unions, if an im-
proved offer is not made or if the dispute is not referred to arbitration."
Another resolution urges the TUC not to accept any offer which is not fully funded by central government. To do so, it says, would mean accepting cuts in the service.
There is; also a strong feeling that local co-ordinating committees should have more discretion over implementing accident and emergency cover. The TUC's code of conduct is seen as being so wide as to be ineffective in some areas.
There is a call for a review and a tightening up of the TUC's emergency cover procdures.
August 1982
health workers are biking to downing street as part of the action week, starting today fourty Coventry health service workers will carry their protest against the government's pay policy by bike to London.
They will leave Coventry today, calling en route at Banbury, Oxford, Hillingdon and arrive in Central London midday Friday.
Among the bike's are six tandems. The riders include nurses, ancillary and maintenance wor-
kers as well as professional and technical- staff drawn from Coventry's hospitals.
They will deliver a petition to No. 10 Downing Street and present a bill for
£325,000 to Health Minister Norman Fowler.This is the amount the Coventry District Health Authority would have rto find to meet the government's health service wage formula. It has already overspent on its budget.
"The truth is," says Lloyd Randall, secretary of the NUPE hospitals branch in the city,
"there is not a 6 per cent offer.
It is just 4 per cent and an offer to cannibalise the service to meet the other 2 per cent."
PICKET LINESIn addition to being divisive. the Tory government tactics will also mean the loss of up to 80
jobs in the city's hospitals.
The bikers will link up with local health service co-ordinating committees on their journey.
They are offerins to join picket lines at hospitals and speak at meetings. But they also hope
that other trade unionists will turn out in force to greet them.
They will be joined in London bv strikers whose seven week action has reduced the central sterile supplies depot to emergency only.
Nurses at the outpatients department oi the Coventry and Warwick Hospital, as well as
maintenance and boilerhouse workers in Walsgrave and other hospitals also plan to impose
sanctions in the coming week.
A meeting in Birmingham ot local health service union co- ordinating committees support-
ed calls from Coventry for the TUC to sharpen up the action on health service pay.
AN ULTIMATUM
A resolution adopted "calls on the TUC health service committee to support a call for an ultimatum for an all-out strike from September 1 by all TUC health service unions, if an im-
proved offer is not made or if the dispute is not referred to arbitration."
Another resolution urges the TUC not to accept any offer which is not fully funded by central government. To do so, it says, would mean accepting cuts in the service.
There is; also a strong feeling that local co-ordinating committees should have more discretion over implementing accident and emergency cover. The TUC's code of conduct is seen as being so wide as to be ineffective in some areas.
There is a call for a review and a tightening up of the TUC's emergency cover procdures.
Saturday, January 26, 2008
22 September 1982
Lerwick 400
Oban 100
Stornaway 500
Kirkcaldy 2,000
Manchester 2,000
St Helens 2,000
Bolton 2,000
Leek 300
Coventry 2,000
Cambridge 2,000
Norwich 2,000
Kings
Harleston 500
Fakenham 100
Yeovil 1,000
Ballymena 200
Enniskillen 350
Aberystwyth 200
also many rallies/marches in London ie Hackney, Hillingdon
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