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General union GMB yesterday pledged its backing for the 300-mile People’s March for the NHS which sets off from the north-east on Saturday.
The march, which harks back to a golden age of union militancy, has been organised by women in Darlington calling themselves DarloMums.
It will follow the route of the 1936 Jarrow Crusade and arrive at Parliament on September 26.
Marchers will visit 21 towns and cities en route. Many trade unions and regions of the TUC are planning receptions and rallies.
“We are not only marching to support fair funding in the NHS budget, but to overturn the Health and Social Care Act which has enforced privatisation of profitable NHS services and has allowed them to be axed elsewhere,” said DarloMum and GMB national officer Rehana Azam.
“As mums with young kids we see it as our civic duty to try and save the NHS before our children grow up.”
