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COHSE National Executive Committee member Ray Blaney - Sterling work solidarity with the Scottish National Union of Mineworkers (NUM).
Ray became well known as a Workers Party councillor and later Ireland's first Green Party councillor
A web site dedicated to the study of The Confederation Of Health Service Employees (COHSE) and National Asylum Workers Union (NAWU), National Union of County Officers (NUCO)including the Guild of Nurses. The site also notes the positive role COHSE, NUPE & NALGO Nurses played in the formation of UNISON Nursing Sector, the premier nursing union