Joyce Conway – Greenwich COHSE
COHSE and Unison Branch Secretary
Brook and Greenwich District Hospital ,later Queen Elizabeth Hospital (Greenwich)
Joyce Helen Conway MBE
7th August 1932 – 17th August 2008
Service of Rememberance
Eltham crematorium (Falconwood) 1st Septem…Read more…
TUC Nurses Charter 1937
NUCO
Read more…
Charles Harris NUCO – COHSE Officer
General Secretary statement 1949Charles Harris – NUCO COJSE Nursing
Read more…
COHSE Student demonstration 15th August 1948
COHSE demonstration to Hyde Park
20,000 marched
COHSE demand £5 minimum wage and 40 hour weekSunday 15th August 1948
COHSE now UNISON Student Nurses
Read more…
Charles A Foreman – COHSE Darenth Park
Mr Charles A Foreman – Chairman – Darenth Parish Council – Kent
Darenth Park Hospital MHIWU and COHSE
Stoke Park Labour Party
Dartford
Rev Stanley Morgan
Died 1948Read more…
Student Nurses – COHSE Conference 1947
J Gue – Claybury Hospital branch had 424 COHSE members (nearly 100%)
student nurses pay – threat to strike or resign
mental health nursesRead more…
Student Nurses – London 1946 – LCC
Beatrice Drapper 1946
Cupar Asylum (Stratheden Mental Hospital) Fife – National Asylum Workers Union
Cupar Asylum (Stratheden Mental Hospital) Fife National Asylum Workers Unionlater COHSE now UNISON
Branch established between January – March 1919
Official union recognition August 1919
First Union branch secretary NAWU – Mr T Melrose died 1946…Read more…
Miss K.M. Willis – Assistant Matron Caterham LCC Mental Hospital
Miss K.M. Willis – Assistant Matron Caterham LCC Mental Hospital
(St Lawrence’s)
Started at Caterham 1916
MHIWU National Executive Committee member
Athlone Committee
General Nursing Council member for twenty years
Chair of GNC Mental Health C…Read more…
Friern Barnet COHSE Nurses 1945 Fighting Rushcliffe
Radical NursesForgotten HistorySister L. Easty – Friern Hospital (Barnet)1930 – 1957COHSE Guild of Nurses Nursing RepLed COHSE nurses at the hospital to refuse to work 24 hours unpaid overtime in 1945″Which resulted in the Rushcliffe recommendati…Read more…
UK Nurses Strike 1974 – COHSE
1974 Nurses Strike8 May 1974
Eleven COHSE nurses at Storthes Hall Hospital, Huddersfield, strike for one hourThree wards closed.
For the first time, nurses have taken industrial action — ‘The possibility’, (said the Guardian of 13 May) of strikes by n…Read more…
Paddington Radical Nurses Group – 1988 – St Mary’s Hospital
National Union of County Officer NUCO 1929
National union of County Officers (NUCO) 1930
Royal College of Nursing – Oppose Nursing Trade Unionism
British Nursing Journal January 1920
Read more…
Maude McCallum Nurses & Trade Unions 1921
Maude McCallumMonthly notes – Poor Law Workers Trade Union Guild of Nurseslater COHSE
Brentford Nursing Students Fight 1921
Brentford Nursing Students Fight 1921
Poor Law Workers Trade Union (later COHSE)
Guild of Nurses
Maude MacCallum Professional Union of Trained Nurses 1920 “Wake up Nurses”
Maude MacCallum Professional Union of Trained Nurses October 1920 “Unless we take the management of our own affairs into our own hands, we shall go on being tired and over worked “Wake up Nurses” and take a little interest in your own business”
P…Read more…