Category: Campaigns
Rally at the Hospital Gate on Whipps Cross Road
UNIONS TO PROTEST AT WHIPPS CROSS HOSPITAL TO DEMAND PATIENT SAFETY, PAY JUSTICE & AN END TO PRIVATISATION ON THE 73RD ANNIVERSAY OF THE NHS
As part of a national day of action in defence of the NHS, Waltham Forest Trades Council will hold a rally outside Whipps Cross Hospital. Union members who work in the NHS will be joined by local trade unionists and campaigners to demand:
- Reject the insulting 1% pay increase for NHS staff with trade union action demanding a 15% rise
- A fully publicly funded NHS and care system
- End privatisation of NHS services
Len Hockey, Unite Whipps Cross said: “Our free National Health Service was founded 73 years ago after a mass pressure of the working class. It was a service won by the struggle of trade unionists and socialists.
“But decades of austerity, underfunding and privatisations by the Tories and right-wing Labour has left our NHS in a dire situation.… Read on ...