Friday 13 September 2013

Proposal for a Health worker Website and Bulletin

This is a proposal for the creation of a cross-union health worker activist website and accompanying bulletin, as a necessary element in the development of organisation and politicisation among health workers in Britain. Its purpose would be to aid the development of a network of activists in the health service which can begin to act to transform our unions, spur action against privatisation and cuts, and lay the foundation for the unified national resistance needed to stop the destruction of the NHS as part of the Tory austerity project. 

The level of organisation among health workers in Britain is currently incredibly low. Despite huge attacks, resistance remains fragmented and none of the health unions are putting forward a comprehensive plan of how to reverse the privatisation, secure wage rises or stop the cuts. Health workers are increasingly politicised due to the blatant wage gouging and corporate thievery demonstrated by the government and private health systems taking over NHS services, but there are few organisations for this politicisation to flow into and serve as an outlet for action.