Book Launch Invitation
There will be a launch of the book by Dave Galligan UNISON's Head of Health at the Cardiff City Centre UNISON office on Thursday 10th June at 6.30pm. Steve Davies who edited and award winning journalist Barrie Clement are guest speakers and Joseph will read a short extract from the book. A short film about the dispute is being shown on a loop in an adjoining room and the launch will be short on speeches and plenty of time to mingle, there will be refreshments. Please e-mail to let us know you're coming along This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Western Mail Article
Madeleine Brindley the Health Editor of the Western Mail and Wales Online has interviewed Joseph for an article to appear in the Western Mail which should appear on Monday 7th June in the health supplement
Morning Star Article
The Morning Star have a mini review article published on the 13th July .
You can read it by following this link
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/content/view/full/92751
I will regularly post excerpts from my newly released book about my story inside the National Ambulance Dispute of 1989/1990 which occurred just over 20 years ago. I have written my story in “real time” 20 years on and spent quite some time on research. It has dual purpose, both telling my story and chronicles the dispute.
This is the precis……
“Joseph Conaghan now an elected member of the NHS Staff Council and Paramedic tells his story as a NUPE rep within the back-drop of the local and national events that became the National Ambulance Dispute in 1989/1990. The story takes us from October 1989 when the dispute over pay and recognition escalated to the point where Joseph along with thousands of his colleagues were locked out from stations and vehicles unable to attend to 999 calls due to a High Court Injunction that was served on them whilst the Police and the Army were responding to the emergencies. There is a full account of the bucket collections, the biggest petition in history with over four and a half million signatories and the march and rally in London where over 75,000 Ambulance staff their families and supporters gathered to consolidate their overwhelming support for the locked out or suspended Ambulance Workers. With exclusive extracts from the key parliamentary debates plus explanations of the history of Ambulance qualifications, the whole ”glorified taxi driver” insult and the settlement that created the shape of the Service that we see today, this is an essential read for anyone who wants to remember the most overwhelming episode in the history of the Service which happened exactly 20 years ago.”
