Dear Unison Branch Secretary,
My name is CLAIRE DIXON and I
am asking your Branch of Unison to nominate me for the FEMALE HEALTH SEAT in the forthcoming NEC Elections.
I am the Branch Secretary of
Whittington Health in Islington, North London. I am passionately committed
to fight for our NHS!
I am proud to have fought alongside my union colleagues and the local
community to save our A&E from closure not so long ago and stop the sale of
half our hospital site.
As a consequence of privatisation and massive cuts in the
NHS, patient care has suffered. Staff in the NHS are totally demoralised and
feel undervalued as they are overworked, unappreciated and face down-banding and job cuts.
The driving force behind the latest ‘Sustainability and Transformation Plans’ is pure
economics, to cut, streamline and close. Under these plans many more A&E's
including my own will again face the threat of closure. These plans have to be
opposed if we believe in the founding principles of the NHS – to meet the needs
of everyone; be free at the point of delivery; based on clinical need, not
ability to pay.
My own pathology lab where I work is under
the threat of being outsourced as are many others under the
directive of NHS England.
Social Care in the community has become almost non-existent.
Hospital wards are packed to the rafters as a result. Many patients end up
waiting on trolleys for a bed. In the midst of this crisis Tory leader Theresa
May says there is no crisis! That is even when the Red Cross have been brought
in to help the overstretched (outsourced) London Ambulance Service!
It is time to stand up to all of this, speak out and make it clear
enough is enough. We need national
action and strong national leadership to fight this. There should be no
hesitation in supporting the National
March that been called on March 4th to defend the NHS.
We must work with all our colleagues in local government and
education who face the same onslaught to bring the struggle together.
change in direction
of the union leadership
I am standing for a, one that stands up and shows its teeth in fighting
this Tory government and its hateful policies. We must put an end to the pain
and misery that they are imposing on millions of ordinary workers and their
families.
I was one of the 11 complainants
who went to the Certification Office hearing recently over the conduct of
staff in the London Region during the 2015
General Secretary Elections. A recording emerged of paid full time
union officials and staff openly engaging in a meeting at Unison HQ in London
being encouraged to break the rules and mocking
other candidates who stood. We
can no longer tolerate such practices. I stand for a truly
democratic and membership led union.
PLEASE SUPPORT MY
NOMINATION
I am also asking for nominations in health for: ROGER HUT
JORDAN RIVIERA
NEIL McALLISTER
Please also support all other UNISONaction Broad Left candidates.
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