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As Tories try to take away unsocial hours allowance...

STRIKE FOR THE NHS

29 Jan and 25 FEB
T

he Tories contempt for

the NHS and those who work in
it knows no bounds. Cameron
and Hunt are denying that there is
a crisis in our A&E departmentsas
waiting times stand at a ten year
high.
The running down of local authority
social care is putting even greater
pressure on our NHS and the staff who
work so hard to provide the service.
As NHS workers our action is in
defence of the health service and the
entire welfare state.
Were fighting for everyone and we
should call on everyone to join our
picket lines.
The NHS strike can be a focus
for other workers, students,
pensionerseveryone who hates what
the Tories are doing.
Not satisfied with refusing to give
health workers a well deserved pay
rise, now they are proposing abolishing
unsocial hours payments.
The governments proposals on
Sustainable Options For Future Pay
have been submitted to the Pay Review
Body (PRB). These options include:
Removing unsocial hours rates.
Paying a flat rate for all staff.
Changing periods which are
considered unsocial and attract
premium pay rates.
Flexibility premiums rather than
unsocial hours premiums.
Revising progression pay alongside
changes to unsocial hours.

United

The last time a Tory government

threatened to take away unsocial hours
payments from nurses was in 1988.
Thirty-eight Manchester night nurses
walked out on strike and defeated this
plan.
We need to show this weak coalition
government that we are prepared to
fight together and defend our unsocial
hours payments and gain a real pay
rise.

UCH strikers in November

Our NHS would not last a single day

without the contribution of migrant
workers. United strike action is the best
possible antidote to the divisive poison
of UKIP.
It is very unusual that so many
unions across the public sector
are taking strike action against the
government so close to a general
election.

Community

And while its good that Labour has

made some election pledges to defend
the health service it has also pledged to
stick to wider Tory spending plans. We
cant rely on Labourstrikes are the
best defence of the health service.
Our NHS trade union leaders have
called on us to escalate the strike action
on 29th January for twelve hours from
9 am until 9 pm and take ASOS (action
short of strike action) between

30 January and 25 February. There will

be a 24 hour strike on 25 February.
NHS workers need to reach out to
other trade unionists and community
campaigns and invite them to join and
support our picketsthis is a fight for
everyone.
When MPs award themselves an
11 percent pay rise, it really does show
that its one rule for them and another
for the rest of us.
We must remember that this is a
weak ConDem coalition government
with no majority. It is made up of
billionaires from Eton who have no
interest in the NHS or its staff.
We have the opportunity in this
national dispute to strike a blow against
Cameron and his cronies, win on pay,
and defend our NHS.
Join the union, join the pickets,
fight for your pay rise, hands off our
NHSWe can win!

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