It’s not too often that we scan the pages of Socialist Worker, but this week they are reporting striking Dundee NHS porters who have called a protest at the Scottish parliament on Thursday of this week to demand the Scottish National Party (SNP) supports their pay dispute.

The Unite union members have been on all-out strike now for eight weeks.

NHS Tayside bosses have refused to budge and grade the porters the same as the vast majority working in the NHS in Scotland.

SNP health minister and Dundee MSP Shona Robison had said nothing about the dispute until she finally met porters’ reps on Monday of this week.

Pressure is clearly building on hospital bosses after pictures from inside the hospital revealed overflowing bins full of clinical waste.

And last week a circular to nurses revealed bosses have asked them to scab on the strike by dealing with clean and used linen.

A striking porter told Socialist Worker, “Lots of nurses have refused point blank to do it.”

http://socialistworker.co.uk/art/40590/Dundee+porters+strike+piles+pressure+on+SNP+and+the+bosses

While we at the Clinical Waste Discussion Forum have no further information about this dispute, as an interim measure might we suggest that in the interim the hospital managers roll up their sleeves, put on  pair of gloves, and shift the wastes to its usual collection point.