thomasa td to rested representing Smith does not try and hide these opinions, he alaborates on them at great length by aying that there • are not only physical differences between but that men. Smlth is 22 years old.
He is not getting aw y with his sexist mouthings. Irady 1V0ST13100E recutive of ASTMS Into his the Natlonal statements has been Medical Branch of the union case hes highlighted, albeit in • particularly crude form, the problems women lace in The womon workers at Guys are now organising themselves lo discuss not just Smith but the general probems of womens oppression both at work and in the unions.
womens "caucus' decided to step up the campaign for nureery facillties st Guys. A NAME.
on women and frade unione for all membere of ASTMS In THE SOCHIT DAY ON WAH CRCL strike and will discuss The many problems which womon Most Important, the rally will discuss now to orcanise and NANO SUCH ONE SON us at Guy's has shown the WOMBIE sell-organisation ASTMS may already but powers are limited, Bur sunrolled bathe UNICI bureaucracy.
can hold union positions shows NOW on Ino and in contrast Me caucus at Guy's sees Heelf and its stressing the need for womer they piay a full and setin ole inside the trade unions JANET MAGUIRE SUBSCRIPTION RAFES DOMESTIC: E/ pervew £3.50 tur sa months FOREIGN: E9 per year surface mo MATE TO SEUWEEKLY distibubent 9T Celedun an Rued, Lundo- N1 sector in London.
To sult the occasion he needed a disguise, and leftsounding metoric was the chosen one. could hide the bodily form of Alan Fisher, retary of the National Union of Public Employees.
over and while Fisher and his lies tenants are safely behind their desks hospital warkers are busy preparing at the front line of the battie to save London's haspital:
Since the begining of Apri workersat the Hounsion Hospital have been staging a work-in to prevent the Hounslow, Hammer smith and Ealing Area Health Authority from closing the hospical. Shop stewards have been preparing the resistance inside tbe hospital where a staff defence committee responsible to regulai mass meerings has now heen set up. They have also heen huilding support within the local labour LODESILLL MARCH Last week 200 trade unionists including delegates Heathrow Join Shop Stewards Committee, the Hounslow Trades Couneil and St. Bernard's Hospi Entrailed outside the Hounsiow it support of their struggle. After the rally a march through Hounslow ro the AHA offices took place which demanded that the AHA refuse to implement the proposed Allbough the AHA chairperson effect of the strugale in West London was shown when the AHA voted against plans to close all the surgical wards and the operating theatre in the Acton Hospital.
The workers at Housioe know a long hartle will be necessary to But nothing General SecNow the sound and fury are of August.
closure.
SHOOT In wards and turned them the Weir Hounslow Hospital workers lumed up In force on 11 May march. save their hospital, but they are determined that it will not go the same way as the other 25 hospitals which have already been closed in London. From 1 July a 24-hour picket is being organised co practitioners. prevent any removal of equipment by the AHA, who have said chai the bospital must close by the enc Across the river in Sourh West and trade unionists are taking Weir Maternity -WAnGSWOrEE already suffcred curs in its faciliThe special unit for the treat munity ment of premature babies has virtunlly closed down following the non-replacement of the nurse in charge. The AHA have already taken over two newly upgraded into bilices for themselves. Two weeks ago a sucoessful strike, demoostration and public mecting were bela, orgarasco oy tac sanas ollensive is worth health unions in support of This type of support must Dow Be stepace upon come taro NUPE shop steward, told Red COLIN SMITH Weekly, 'We need outside help. We're in a difficut position as a maternity hospital Decause we do not deor with general patients. We help from foca Wirh this help we will artener o keep our hospital open in the same fashion as the Elizabeth Garrest Anderson:
While the local NUPE officinis sit on their hands. the Weir workers and local trade unions are taking steps to build this support. On 23 May at Balham Library the first meeting of the Weir Defence Committee will take place. This is already supported by the Cam Health Council Trade Union Lialaon Committee, tbe local Trades Council and the Save Our Hospicals Campaign.
Together with the workersat the EGA the workersat the Hounslow how a real battle can be begun Ein, and other hospitals a general HELLO. CLASH (Committee of London Health Stewards forthe Healch Service) is attempting to build such a cam paign on a London busis. that every employer is reall sweating over the success of от сімim."
SPREADING Laird Portch is only subsidiary of one of Scotland's largest firms, Coats Paton, and the dispute already spreading throughout the other branches SPARHAM (IFL)
huge textile giant. Jaegers in Kilmarnock are out on strike and Ladybird workers are blacking all materials from the striking factories One of the main factors behind the strength of the women is their total distrust of Equal Pay Tribunals. "They're just a farce, explained Ellen Nicklin, "We'll get nothing these people.
Instead it is the trade union and women's movement that the strikers have turned to for support. One striker summed it up by explaining that:
*The rally [onequalpay|lust week was very good. These people seem very defermined and if we get really organised then we can really get something going." • Send messages of support and donations to: Ellen Nick 153 Leeward Circle, Westwood, East Kitbride * A Saturday night social i for Ponth Lain organised by milltants who al anded the successful Se rimination Act Rally held tw weake ago.
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