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    The document discusses recent strikes by NHS workers and other public sector unions in the UK over pay increases of 1% or less while MPs receive a 10% raise. It notes that 500,000 health workers went on strike on October 13th and momentum grew with radiographers striking a week later. Other unions, like civil servants and local government workers also went on strike. The document says NHS union Unison plans more strikes in November and urges workers to get organized to push for continued action to fight cuts to public services and privatization.

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    The document discusses recent strikes by NHS workers and other public sector unions in the UK over pay increases of 1% or less while MPs receive a 10% raise. It notes that 500,000 health workers went on strike on October 13th and momentum grew with radiographers striking a week later. Other unions, like civil servants and local government workers also went on strike. The document says NHS union Unison plans more strikes in November and urges workers to get organized to push for continued action to fight cuts to public services and privatization.

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    PREPARE FOR MORE ACTION
    AS NHS UNIONS PLAN STRIKES
    I would like to get Socialist Worker regularly
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    Health 291014
    O
    N 13 OCTOBER, THE NHS STRIKE
    that brought half a million health
    workers out together surpassed
    everyones expectations.
    Across the country many hospitals saw
    picket lines of 50+ with a lively, bouyant
    atmosphere and solidarity from other trade
    unionists, students and NHS campaigners
    who brought breakfast to picket lines, or
    collected in workplaces for NHS strikers.
    The radiographers strike a week later
    echoed this mood and boosted momentum
    with more big turnouts, not to mention a
    brilliant slogan, No Raise, No Rays!
    Health workers werent the only ones
    mobilising the fght for pay.
    Sandwiched between the two health
    strikes, Hundreds of thousands of PCS
    members working in the civil service
    walked out on 15 October.
    Tens of thousands joined the TUC and
    STUC marches in London and Glasgow
    demanding, Britain needs a pay rise!
    Its a disgrace that the Westminster elite
    have the cheek to tell the workers who slog
    day in day out to provide vital services for
    society that we have to accept 1 percent
    or less, while the MPs grab a 10 percent
    rise! That week of action showed the huge
    potential for united action that can drive
    back the Tories assault on public sector pay.
    But it was a problem that the strike
    planned for 14 October by up to a million
    local government workers was suspended.
    Union leaders approached the employers
    with a proposal to suspend action, but whats
    on the table is just a reshuffing of the offer
    members had already rejected!
    November
    Many local government workers were
    angered to be pulled out of the week of
    action with so little offered. Some are
    now campaigning inside their unions for a
    rejection of the offer and to rejoin strikes.
    Thats why its good that NHS workers
    are striking in Wales on 10 November,
    and that Unison, the biggest union in the
    NHS, has decided to go for more action in
    November and is in discussion with other
    NHS unions about the date for the strike.
    This can be a focus for the movement
    as the next step after Octobers action.
    Firefghters are striking this week too.
    The attack on pay is at the heart of a wider
    agenda of privatisation, closures and cuts.
    The RCM midwives turnout on the strike
    was vibrant due to deep anger at the Tories
    cuts and closures of maternity units.
    Now the Transatlantic Trade Investment
    Partnership (TTIP) threatens to bring in
    more unprecedented privatisation.
    Its good Labour leaders have made
    noises about opposing TTIP. But Miliband
    has made it clear Labour will stick to Tory
    spending cuts, and continue the assault on
    public sector pay. They have dangerously
    pandered to racist Ukip and the Tories by
    blaming migrants for the crisis. This is
    divide and rule and its the rich who beneft.
    Our unions have to make the NHS a
    central political issue during the general
    election campaign, and call action that keeps
    pressure on whatever government we elect.
    Organisation
    The potential for more strikes in November
    gives a chance to strengthen organisation at
    the base of the unions and in the workplaces.
    NHS workers should get organised now
    to push union leaders to keep the fght going.
    The political impact of NHS strikes is
    huge, and when thats at the heart of united
    and escalating action across the unions, it is
    possible to drive back the assault on pay and
    our services alike.
    We cant wait for Labour for a fair pay rise or to save our NHS...
    More picket lines outside hospitals saw the momentum grow in the
    battle for the NHS and fair pay when radiographers struck on 20 October
    UNITE THE RESISTANCE
    STRIKING
    TOGETHER
    Organising to win conference
    Speakers include: Health workers striking
    for fair pay, Unison Care UK strikers, Support
    Stafford Hospital campaign, Matt Wrack FBU
    frefghters general secretary, John McDonnell
    MP, US fast food strikers, local government
    workers, E15 mothers campaign and housing
    workers who have been striking for pay, Disabled
    People Against Cuts, BFAWU bakers union
    activists who are fghting zero hours contracts,
    migrant workers who have been at the forefront
    of union organising... and many more.
    As well as main sessions, workshops, include:
    Where next for the fght to save the NHS?
    with Janet Maiden, UCH nurse & Unison health
    SGE; Frank Wood, Kings College Hospital & Unite
    NEC; Karen Howell, Support Stafford Hospital
    campaign; Roger Hutt, Unsison Care UK striker
    Saturday 15 November, 12-5pm
    Bloomsbury Baptist Church, central London.
    Book up online at uniteresist.org

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