NALGO sponsors demo against health cuts

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The Labour Government is out to take more resources from the National Health Service in its imminent White Paper on expenditure. The National and Local Government Officers Association (NALGO) says that the White Paper will lead to an unacceptable decline in standards as well as job cuts. NALGO is the largest white collar union in Britain, with 80,000 members in the NHS.

Geoffrey Drain, the general secretary of NALGO, stressed: Cutting spending on services is not going to help industry. Nurses who lose their jobs now are not going to reappear in a few months as car workers in Dagenham. The Government must be made to think again. on its policy of cuts in the NHS.

NALGO's warning came as a national demonstration against the cuts in the NHS was being announced for 25 April in London. This followed a meeting of representatives of NALGO and the National Coordinating Committee against the Cuts in the NHS (NCC).

Full time officers of NALGO have already spoken at meetings in hosp itals mobilising support for the demonstration. The NCC has seen support for action against the cuts in the NHS grow steadily since the conterence called by the Medical Committee Against Private Practice last year.

Janet Maguire, National Organiser of the NCC. told Red Weekly that they would be calling on all trade unions, locally and nationally, trades councils, shop stewards and district committees, tenants associations and Labour Parties to back the demonstration and build a really big mobilisation attacks on the NHS BMA PICKET will also be orcanising a picket of the square, London w.C.1. Inis coincides with a meeting of the BMA which will be discussing the result of the consultants Darrot on private bractice.

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