Workers organise to save hospital

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On Thursday 28 April hospital workers from six South London hospitals taking industrial action to Weir Maternity Hospital.

In a secret plan the Wandsworth and East Merton Authority has picked out the Weir Maternity Hospital as one of the hospitals they intend to close. The Nhs matermly services were singled out for massive cuts by Rarhara Caste in *Priorities for Health' by the DHSS last year.

This crude attempt to dress up the cuts in the health service as a breakthrough in 'progressive" health planning. (People before buildings' was Castle's deceitful slogan) will inevitably result in increased TISKS women.

Already the UK is well down the league for safe births. cynicism of the AHA bureaucrats is well shown by the fact that they plan to turn the Weir into an office DIOCK. The AHA has instructed family But the workers at the Weir and other hospitals in the Wandsworth area are not going to let the AHA will be and Health Minister David Ennals get away with wis disgusting con fidence trick. posure of the AHA's plans by the local Community Health Council (CHC) and the lett-wing press, the health unions in Wandsworth have formed a Joint Trade Union Committee representing hospital workers in the area.

This committee has already made published links with other workers sations in the area, gates Trades Council and local government Joint union committees well as observers from the CHC ine committee action on 28 April as the first step pregnant in a campaign to defend all the NHS services in the workers from the Weir The utter London, Bolingbroke Hospitals have decıded to strike and join a mass picket outside the Weir starting at midday. The workers at the Nelson and Wimbledon hospitals as well Joint Union Committee has organised a demonstration which will march through the area to St George's Hospital in Following the ex- Tooting for against the NHS cuts, at 8pm. EGA (stil preparine for he Cam remove patients and and equipment) and the Hounslow hospital in West London have shown, offer a concrete way forward in the struggle against health cuts. having deleWandsworth will be an LOTTON rest of the London labour movecalled the NHS. But three isolated struggles have less than an all-London campaign of action to force the DHSS to abanarca. don all its plans for cuts.

Benedict's and the of action called by ional Union of Public Employees on 11 May. A massive turn-out can be a step to forging a Londonwide