Motion for TUC

Please pass this motion in your union branch, campaign group, trades council, patients' organisation, or any other grouping that you can think of, that wants the TUC to call a national demonstration in defence of the NHS. Then send it to:

Brendan Barber
c/o Congress House
Great Russell Street
London
WC1B 3LS

Also, drop us a line at save-our-nhs@hotmail.co.uk: it'd be nice to keep track of how many motions are getting sent in.

National Demo to Defend the NHS

The NHS is under attack. Nationally, health workers are being ordered to take £20bn worth of cuts in services. Now, the government’s Health and Social Care Bill has been passed which will see the break up and privatisation of the NHS.

There has been widespread opposition to the cuts and privatisation in the NHS. We are calling on the Trades Union Congress to call and build for a mass demonstration on 30th June 2012, on the scale of the enormous anti-cuts demonstration on 26th March 2011, as a step to building a campaign involving health workers, their unions, service users and the public to force the Coalition to back down.

When the NHS was first founded, it came about as a result of massive public pressure. Now we have fight in order to keep a truly publicly owned and funded National Health Service capable of providing high quality care for all.