UNISON'S BREAKTHROUGH pay outs totalling £96 million, with many staff entitled to back pay of up to £100,000. The rises could be as much as £8,000 a year for a D grade nurse and a £4,000 a year increase with a 2-hour cut in working week for a cook - all backdated 12 years! And the result could raise NHS pay across the board. It is not surprising that the Department of Health, desperately seeking to keep a lid on NHS pay, under the Agenda for Change pay deal.
What is more remarkable is that UNISON, whose legal team have successfully pressed the case, has been equally reluctant to publish details. and John Lister, and published by London Health Emergency, tells the story they don't want you to hear. Rd, London W10 6RA. This new pamphlet, by Karen O Toole exclude women? Copies are £2 including postage from LHE, Unit 6, Ivebury Court, 325 Latimer
Equal representation challenges people to rethink their assumptions. 'It won't work. Look at New Labour women MPs or 'women trade union bureaucrats'. Aren't they
This is an argument about the programme they stand on rather than against equal representation. Being right wing, out for yourself and afraid to challenge capitalism has never excluded men from being public representatives, so why should. it
The debate we are interested in is about how socialist organisation and politics should be represented. Having more women as officers and public representatives doesn't guarantee socialism but then neither has 90% of them being men. society.
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Alan Thornett Trajor chalege and new phase in he Socialist Alliance is facing a
its development. This is what is posed at the AGM on May I0.
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Socialist Alliance ditions. In fact such realignment could make this into real debate rather than an abstract one, since it would make the development of a party like the SSP a real option.
Up until now, we have discussed it under conditions where everyone agrees that new developments are necessary before this