The Socialist 3 June 2008

Don't just get angry - get active

New Labour's failures: Don't just get angry, get Active

Editorial: Target 'ecological' taxes at the biggest polluters

Heathrow protest: Demonstrating against a third airport runway

Cosmetic measures against fuel poverty

Belfast Airport workers: The long battle for justice

Come to the national shop stewards network conference

National Shop Stewards Network second conference advert

Union members reject pay insult

Don't deport AmDani Juna

Keep our NHS public

Nottingham: Student protests at arrests

Engels: A Revolutionary Life

Youth against racism

London Youth Against Racism activity

National demo against racist BNP

Students step-up struggle

Berlin: 8,000 school students strike

Markets cannot end house building crisis

Nationalise Bradford & Bingley

Nuclear power: An expensive and dangerous failure

The beautiful game, with beautiful profits for some

Lebanon - civil war or rule by sectarian landlords

Israel: Olmert will go, but the political crisis will stick

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Union members reject pay insult

THOUSANDS OF NHS workers have rejected the government's below-inflation three-year pay offer. The GMB union, representing 25,000 NHS staff such as ambulance crews, catering staff and ancillary workers, voted against the three-year offer by 95%.

Building workers in Ucatt voted by 83.8% against the offer to their 4,000 NHS members. Members of the Royal College of Midwives, seen more as a professional body than a trade union, opposed the deal by a resounding 99.5%.

12,000 members of the Unite union in the health service also rejected the deal.

The right-wing leadership in Unison, which covers the vast bulk of trade unionised workers in the NHS, says that if "Unison and the Royal College of Nursing support [the deal], there will be an agreement."

That may be so, but most of Unison's NHS members would not support the deal. The bulk of delegates at April's Unison health conference, who are far more in touch with the anger of workers, voted for a membership ballot against the proposals, that would mean a real cut in pay.

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