COHSE
A web site dedicated to the study of The Confederation Of Health Service Employees (COHSE) and National Asylum Workers Union (NAWU), National Union of County Officers (NUCO)including the Guild of Nurses.
The site also notes the positive role COHSE, NUPE & NALGO Nurses played in the formation of UNISON Nursing Sector, the premier nursing union
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St Mary's Hospital (Harrow Road) - Work-In and Occupation 1981
On December 17th the Defence Committee of St. Mary's Hospital, Harrow Road, held a press conference at which Tony Benn and Ken Livingstone declared their full support for the struggle of the staff to defend their hospital against the loss of 100 beds and eventual closure.
St. Mary's,...
COHSE Student Nurses Charter 1989
The National Learner Forum has been established as the result of a resolution submitted to COHSE Annual
Delegate Conference in 1989 by South Sheffield Branch in recognition of the special needs of all learners, both
inside and outside COHSE.
We intend to formulate and promote a Charter for...
The Battle to Save - St Leonards Hospital (Hackney)
Demonstration 26th September 1983
St Leonard's, (Hackney) Hospital Occupation 3rd July 1984 - 16th July 1984
In 1979 despite opposition in the form of a day of action and a a march attended by over one thousand people, St Leonard's Hospital (Hackney) A and E Department was closed.
By the early...
Nurses Clinical Grading April1988
Guerrilla industrial action by nurses in COHSE and NUPE during 1988, lead directly to Clinical Grading (April) and while Clinical Grading had it protractors and many waited years for an appeal.
It represented one of the largest increases in pay secured by nurses since 1974, again the result of...
COHSE Group 81
Initial Group 81 Leaflet 1981 COHSE Conference organised by Jim D (Bangour)
The first meeting was attended by numerous NEC members including an up and coming vice president Colm Robinson
Group 81 started off as a very broad 'Broad Left" with its primary objective to promote more democracy,...
Tory NHS PFI
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In 1992 PFI was implemented for the first time in the UK by the Conservative government of John Major.
In 2002 UNISON attempted to rally support at Labour Party and Lib Dem national conferences against PFI, both leadership (and also the Conservative Party) maintained support for PFI, only...
NUPE/UNISON TV 1991
Trade unions are increasingly thinking seriously about the use of video to get their messages across to their members, potential members and to the public.
Both NUPE and NALGO now have experience of production and a range of applications.
NALGO, I understand, has so far limited itself mainly to...
Hector MaKenzie on the new union 1991
Hector Mackenzie COHSEDecember 1991 Changes in health care and in COHSE itself have made it a very different union to the one it once was, says general secretary Hector MacKenzie, who sees the creation of a new union with NUPE and NALGO as the next stage in that development.
From a fairly...
