THE FIVE-MONTH strike at the Randoiph Hotel Oxlord and the three-month strike at the Night Out Club In Birmingham have tinally boen sold out by the buresucrats of the Transport and General Werkers Union.
As a result both strikes, which were over victimisaton of union members, have bean deleated.
Last Tuesday TGWU officials said they would withdraw official backing for the dispute If the strikers did not accept the terms of the Trust Houses Forte management. These terms meant the strikers lost their jobs with the payment of 'compensation' from E300 to E500 THF®r cent of the money recently spent on full page advertisements in the national press attacking the strikers.
In Birmingham the settlement means that the waltvictimised activity will not be reinsta*The TaWUs that the strikers accept these derisory terms is not surprising considering the role the union ofticials have played throughout the dispute They did nothing to mobilise backing, and it was left to the strikers themselves to and other forms of support.
In do no this tney were faced with a THF manage mant which did everything in their power to smash strikes - from their full page ads to enlisting the help of sociation for Freedom' In the face of all this the TGWU did nothing except finally sell out.
being sold out by the leader within the space of weeks.
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