IN TEN DAYS' time the Trades Union Congress in Blackpool's Opera House.
what is needed from the trade union leaders is summed up in a motion tabled by the Association of Television and Allied Technicians. reads:
*Congress views declared intention of the government to undermine the existing protection of trade unionists in relation to the closed shop, picketing, redundancy and allied issues.
Congress means at its disposal these fundamental attacks on trade union rights. Congress instructs the incoming General Council to institute a campaign resources and membership of the entire conference at Cinematograph, It alarm the Statutory action resolves to resist by all mobilising the U trade union movement in a campaign as powerful and effective as those organised in opposition to "In Place of Strife" and the Industrial Relations Act.' This motion appears alongside one from the Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians. This includes the demand 'to withdraw from all discussions with the government based proposals as published.
No talks with the Tories, the type of used against the Relations Act [i.e. strike action] are the twin demands which can unite and mobilise rank and file trade unionists up and down the country.
The militancy shown by engineering workers in fighting for their current claim on pay and a shorter working week, and SERS WAS D АТТАСК THE BI АГТА working Government.
on their union leaders militancy overwhelming. - these the promises of unequivocal resistance from shipyard workers to the Tories' plans to cut 10,000 jobs in that industry, signs enough that large sections of the class frightened demoralised by the return of the Tory Indeed, it is obvious that the trade are holding back of their members. engineering strike is a case in point. Support for the one-day strikes has been But so far those strikes have barely affected the employers. Even the prospect of two-day strikes does not appear to worry the major bosses. Who would deny that it would be an entirely different case if the engineering unions called an all-out strike?
The same point can be made with the , are UCATT or an anti-picketing injunction. the The Tories.
loud and clear from the TUC. UCATT motion for 'no talks'. Such a position is best stated from a position of strength. But while tabling this motion, also instructed its •OWI members not to support a picket at two building sites in Wandsworth, London where the local Tory council have obtained Such an attack on trade union rights is exactly what the Tories are aiming at. There is no time like the present to fend off that attack, and the Wandsworth dispute is as good a place as any to mobilise in strength to take on the The simple formula is that militant words need to be backed up by militany action. A call for such action is what millions of working people want to hear
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