TEACHERS AND DOCTORS: LET’S UNITE AND FIGHT

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Building solidarity: contact sheet

THIS CONTACT SHEET IS ABOUT bringing junior doctors, teachers, and everyone

fighting against austerity, into contact with their local trade union movement.

We need to build united solidarity to defeat the Tories’ attacks on our NHS, education and services.

Junior doctors have been in the frontline of the fight against austerity. The BMA is right to escalate, with a 48 hour strike on 6 & 7 April, emergency cover only, followed by a full walkout on 26 & 27 April.

This is everyone’s fight, and not only because it’s about defending our NHS.

When Jeremy Hunt decided he would impose the hated contract with a deadline of 1 August, he threw down the

gauntlet to the whole trade union movement.

If Hunt gets away with imposing the contract on doctors, the Tories will attempt to do the same elsewhere.

Teachers are gearing up to defend education from the Tories’ plan to force all schools into academies.

We need to link the fights to defend the NHS & education, now in the forefront of the battle against austerity, and turn support for those fighting back into active solidarity so that they win.

It’s down to trade unionists everywhere to build support for the junior doctors’s strikes, and get behind any action teachers decide to take.

We need to put pressure on the TUC to call a national demonstration in support.