610 Health Service Workers
All workers employed in hospitals and health restoration services.
The IWW is actively organising in the health sector, with a steadily growing membership and a growing confidence. The jobs our members perform vary widely, from mental health nurses, to drivers, technicans and cleaners. The growth of the IWW in the health sector is testament both to the appeal of IWW no-nonsense attitudes to workplace organising, and the increasingly gloomy environment of the NHS.
While managemnt pay is reaching the dizzy heights and chunks of the NHS are sold off to dodgy private companies, workers' conditions and morale are dropping. Many workers are forced into agency and private sector work because of the horrific mismanagement of public money in the health service.
IWW healthworkers stand firm against this. We refuse to cosy up to management while they are bulldozing what little free public services we have left in the interests of a quick buck. Already members of mainstream unions are turning to the IWW as a radical alternative that punches significantly above its weight.
Current Campaigns
The IWW job branch in one National Blood Service (NBS) processing centre is the centre of a major national campaign against cuts in the NBS. The IWW is spearheading this campaign as a seriously important battle to win, for the future of public healthcare. Our members have organised demonstrations and pickets, and have been actively organising within the workforce to build militant rank-and-file pressure on the scandalous measures management are proposing.
Visit the NBS branch blog.
Visit the national campaign blog (IWW-affiliated) against NBS cuts.
Visit the Blood Service Chat internet forums - an autonomous space for NBS workers to discuss and link up across the country.
To join the IWW, click here.
