Blood Service - Pickets against cuts
WORKERS, MAR 2007 ISSUE
UNISON and Amicus members picketed Blood Centres in Leeds, Birmingham, London, Sheffield, Southampton, Newcastle, Bristol, Cambridge, Oxford and Manchester on 14 February in protest against proposed cuts.
Highlighting this modern day St Valentines Day Massacre, the unions attacked the plan to move to three super-centres – North London, Bristol and Manchester – as devastating to Britain's blood service . Amicus members will bear the brunt of job losses and the destruction of highly skilled centres of excellence. They returned an 81 per cent vote for strike action in an indicative ballot in late 2006.