James Prior and the rest of the Tory cabinet have declared war on every trade unionist and every picket line.
That is what lies behind their proposals on 'reform'.
Peel off the polite language in which the Tories' intentions are couched; take away the phoney offer of 'consultation', and just what do the proposals amount to.
They mean, among other things:
Out go flying pickets, a tactic used since the start of this century by trade unionists, and exemplified by the miners' strike of 1972.
Out goes the blacking' of goods, a tactic used since the birth of trade union for strike.
the modern trade union movement.
Out goes solidarity picketing, again a tactic which has been used generations by people, and most deployed during the Grunwick If the Tory proposals become law, any worker or trade union which used these tactics will be open to claims for damages the concerned.
James Prior wraps up this attack on the traditional rights of trade unions with cosy phrases like "democracy', the law', 'protecting the right of working farm. recently The people.
massive his strike. bosses being waged.
answerable to the individual", and so on.
That is as much dung as is the substance which comes out from the rear end of the cows on Prior's issue is about democratic rights of working The right of every worker to picket at a factory or depot gate, in any way connected with her or The right of every worker to join the picket line of a fellow worker in solidarity with the strike The right of every worker to refuse to handle goods produced or delivered by scab labour.
These generations to win.
ments, or They the action, display of solidarity.
preserved.
country proposals.
'we shall not be moved'.
are rights which working people have fought for They were not won by cosy chats in Downing Street, by polite 'consultations' with Tory governby taking out applications in the High Court.
were won by mass mass mobilisations, "illegal' strikes and display after working class They were won that way and that is the way they should be Let the biggest picket line this has ever seen seen be organised to defeat. the Tory And let it together, and proclaim together,
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