RALLY FOR WOMEN'S RIGHTS 26th FER DEMAND FIGHT CON-TRICK THE 5O Such an of the National offered appealed to before opposing a policy.
Luis demand some an policy East branch Has creases, ONE WAGE alternative is being from Fisher's union. of all For the forthcoming national conference of NUPE. there are resolutions trom tour brancnes those at Corby and Kettering, St branch. George's Group Hospitals, Hart- For wood Hospital and Camden don branch demanding some form of 'sliding scale or wages. And Nurt mu tants are not alone in pressing for any wage claim.
For the Representative Council Union AmaIsamated Engineering Workers, Manchester -ICSOULO! demanding la national wage claim matic rises of substantial across-the-board intogether with a sliding scale of wages which would autotion matically increase the basic wages members at weekly or monthly intervals to keep pace with inflation'. A similar motion has also been passed by the Pendie -THUSE the National Union of Railwaymen conference, a Lon has submitted moton waich caus tor me inclu sion of a 'cost of living index' in For the National Union of Teachers conference, East Croy- for don Association links a demand for an immediate increase of £500 with 'inflation proofing by autocompensate for increases in the cost of living'.
This increasing support and the depth of the employers resistance to a wage claim which would automatically keep up with inflaeven more graphically ilustrated internationally.
In Holland over 30,000 workers in e citterent companes are ou demanding automatic on strike, compensation tor price rises escalating nature of the strike has so trentened me government ane the employers that they have now mace major concessions to the SunKers.
Such acelerating support for a sliding scale is understandable. In periods of high inflation it is the policy which guarantees the maintenance of workers' spending INFLATION As well as the economic impact of such demands, there is the couany important bonnear imbact because, much more than a simple demand lor a wages increase. sliding scale, coupled with such an places blame inflation squarely on the employ. ers and the Government.
The Dutch strikers have demanded nat the price index which the wage rises are based tract UNIONISTS This is another challenge to the right of the government and the employers to make the economic decisions.
A sliding scale of wages answers Alan Fisher because if it is fought nationally across different it can unite all working people by offering protection to lower and higher paid.
almost every forthcoming union conference has a demand for a sliding scale of wages placed firmly on the agenda.