New healthworker network launched

HEALTH WORKERS have formed a new rank and file network to stop the attacks on the NHS. NHS staff are dedicated to the services we provide. Many of us didn’t get into this for the money – in the case of nurses certainly not!

We’ve been struggling for years and years to care for people in the face of ever more difficult conditions, far higher workloads and less pay. Being on the frontline, we often take the blame when things go wrong, but usually it’s not our fault.
When politicians talk about cutting back on the NHS, but protecting frontline services, there’s no truth in it at all.
The leadership of the main healthworkers’ union, Unison, has let this happen for far too long, but will not launch the kind of fight we need against Lansley’s big sell off.
Health Worker Network will fight to force our union leadership to take action, and organise to act independently when they don’t.
We want healthworkers to unite with everyone who uses the NHS, because our interests are the same. We’ve produced a bulletin that we distribute round the hospitals, and want as many health workers as possible to get involved.
You can download it here