Tuesday, June 07, 2016
COHSE Sponsored MP's
Angela Eagle MP
John Cronin MP
Allan Rogers MP
Joan Walley MP and Mo Mowlan MP (with the General Secretary and a non sponsored MP)
COHSE staff and members who became MP's include George Gibson, Charlotte Atkins, James Devine, Stephen Pound, Anne Picking (Moffat),
Mallinson - Dunn Ambulance Trophy 1991
Mallinson-Dunn Ambulance trophy 1991 Bob Abberley
Trophy named after Terry Mallinson - National Officer and Bill Dunn NEC Member
And Bob Abberley at Guildford Rally in 1982
COHSE Editor Journal 1992
Helen Findlay took over from Rowena Chapman in 1992 as Editor of the COHSE Journal
and previous to Rowena Chapman was Mark Crail
COHSE Region 8 Trophy 1992
Brian Lynch awarding the Region 8 South Thames & Wessex Region campaign trophy 1992 to nurse Jan Hambleton Deal & Dover District COHSE Branch (established 1988) at
Dover Buckland Hospital
Regional Secretary John Jaggon,
Ernie Brook
Simon Bolton, Mick Brade, Brian Lynch
63 Victoria Road, Aldershort, Hampshire
also a Gravesend Office
Saturday, May 28, 2016
Angels of Hell (Hellingly)
Angels of Hell
COHSE Hellingly Hospital, Sussex on nurses pay protest 1962
Friday, May 27, 2016
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
COHSE - Join The Resistance March - Nottingham 4th February 1988
COHSE - Join The Resistance Banner - Nottingham Thursday 4th February 1988
1,000 strong march in freezing weather from Forest Recreation Site to Market Square
photo Martin Jenkinson (Click picture to enlarge)
COHSE Officers 1985
Garry Shaw (COHSE Charge Nurse Winwick Hospital ex Miner)
Brendan Doyle (COHSE Nursing Officer Walton Hospital)
Tony Clarke (COHSE Nursing Officer Burnley General Hospital)
Mike Murphy (COHSE Staff Nurse Oakwood Hospital Maidstone Branch 840)
Maud Wiese
Maud Wiese was the first women National Executive Member of the National Asylum Workers Union.
She was elected to the General Nursing Council (now NMC) in 1922 and fought for the rights and professionalism of mental health nurses, also arguing against high fees for exams which won her many enemies amongst the entrenched interest's, including the College of Nursing. Later she was assistant Matron at Bexley mental hospital and previously head nurse at Claybury hospital 1924
Maud Eve Wiese - NMC member and first
National Asylum Workers Union woman NEC member
Banstead & Claybury Hospital's
(A record of a death of a Maude Eve Wiese at 16 Suffolk Street, Whitstable, Kent, (Spinster) 14th August 1973.
Stood for Whitstable Council (as a retired Matron) in 1948 seen a link stating she was possibly living at The Shanty,” Seasalter Beach,
A record of a Maud Eve Wiese being born in Battersea in 1889
COHSE Fleet Street Nurses Chapel
COHSE Fleet Street Nurses Chapel in action 1970
COHSE Fleet street nurses branch Irene Aitken (Left)
Aileen Flood COHSE Fleet Street nurses branch
Norah Fitzgerald nursing sister at News of the World Newspaper
The famous COHSE Fleet Street Nurses branch was established in 1967. Most newspapers in Fleet Street had their own medical departments. the Daily Mirror's for example was at Holborn circus employing eleven industrial nurses all registered nurses and all COHSE members.
In common with their colleagues in carious printing unions they belonging to a "Chapel", This is the traditional name given by print unions to the unit within a given company which deals with on the spot trade union matters affecting members.
The COHSE Fleet street Nurses had their own Chapel, and this, like other Chapel's in the organisation was affiliated to the Federated House Chapel. The FHC protected the interests of all trade unions within the company which ever craft, trade or occupation they were employed in.
Irene Aitken was union officer for the nurses
"We are 100 per cent COHSE Chapel, a strong chapel. we negotiate directly with the management on matters affecting our members. we can call on the Federated House Chapel for support if necessary. We are increasing our strength as nurses in COHSE by forming a Fleet street branch of COHSE"
The COHSE Fleet street nurses branch covered members at the Daily Mirror, News of the World and a number of other newspapers in Fleet street.
Industrial nursing was still a relatively new area of the nursing profession
Mrs Aitken said
"It will be the policy of our branch to bring home to the printing employers the necessity of recognising that ours is a profession (Industrial nursing), and that we are engaged in a vital occupation within the industry. This should be recognised by salaries and conditions which raise us to the status we deserve"
The Daily Mirror Medical Chapel successes and experience was the basis for the new COHSE Fleet Street nurses branch.
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
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