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Healthcare workers must oppose ‘divide and rule’ with other unions
It boggles the mind that those Tories responsible for our low pay would try and use it as a stick with which to beat the RMT and its demand for better wages — NHS staff must stand in solidarity with all striking workers, writes IAIN MOONEY
NHS staff and supporters take part in a protest march in central London in September 2020
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IT IS possibly one of the oldest tactics in the book — and yet again we see it being unleashed to divide public service workers and the public during the current fightback against the cost-of-living crisis.
I have been a front-line NHS nurse for 10 years, and during this time I have seen the government and those running organisations within our NHS successfully divide workers and stifle trade union organisation.
We’ve seen top Tories paraded before TV cameras during the latest wave of strike action by the RMT using examples of nurses and other public-sector workers to try and paint a narrative that rail workers are causing detriment to other front-line services.
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