prepared by the for rate action department other ACTSS, Labour Party Young those attending day.
which refusing commissioners place.' came VUL L work-ins by work-ins we decided our next WEDNESDAY 28 NOVEMBER promises to be the next most important date in the fight against cuts in public services. Sheffield city council has decided to allow its 30,000 council workers a day off in order to attend the mass lobby of Parlament called by the Labour Party NEC for that day. A special 800 seat train has been booked for the day by Sheffield NALGO, and shop stewards at the Daniel Doncasters engineering factory have booked a coach for workers attending the lobby.
Throughout London anti-cuts campaigners will be supporting the lobby called by Lambeth council for 7 November. Lambeth National Union of 'Teachers will be First we have been bulding for a | alone. mass lobby of the health authority meting to demand a vote against any cuts at all. In Ealing afternoon strike partal sirikes departments; In Hounslow NALGO is giving union cover for the lobby; and there will be a picket of the district office in Hammersmith earlier in the A delegation is to meet the health authority, and they have been given'a the clear mandate to tell them: 'If you vote against all cuts and help us in our campaign to expose the misery these cuts will cause, we will support you by L-VUCR appointed in your But we are not relying on the health authority voting against cuts that would only postpone the fight anyway. The area stewards committee for UCLEYELIN and those hospitals facing closure, and for full solidarity action in the eyent of any threat to those ILONLI le That includes mobilising workers in private industry to strike in our support.
We are not fighting health cuts of there will be speakers from gevernment Reading entrails THE MAJOR device used to call off the public sector struggles carlier this year was the reference of pay claims to Clegg Commission inference that lots of money would be paid out.
NUPE members were the first to suffer, with a sell-out of their lowest paid TACNDeN. Now LCallCi going to get a dose of the same medicine as Clegg moves to examine their case In olden times professional deceivers used to chant spells to the ignorant Jubiess mutter about multi-variant analysis. They claim this to be an To produce such onde s ay.
produce such wonders expensive consultancy agency, INBUCON, has been brought in.
They intend to examine a number random and representative job-holders, tions, and then compare these with roughly comparable jobs in industry and the civil service. computer time is projected, which is then presented to a judgement panel of job-holders, management and The result must achieve 83 per cent agreement on the panel, and be felt to be fair' by job-holders. Asked about any drawbacks to this procedure, an INBUCON representative admitted: 'Perhaps there is one. doesn't work.
are greater. The first is that the more credulous union leaders believe in the mumbo jumbo of modern management, and forget that they are in a good old-fashioned situation. Secondly there is a danger that any old job-holders will allowed to sit on the panel - rather than union representatives elected by the rank and file membership.
Finaliy, out of the computer print-out, there remain the same old methods of trade union strugg e as the onlv quarantee LACIL the most equations are large enough to defend living standards. with the establish job specifica- I strike.
After a lot ol pay scale 'indepenincreases.
such action, It sometimes Ulay An The drawbacks for trade unionists bargaining fight is still high.
figure comes complicated uniform), Most hard hit by this are overseas students who are forced to pay higher fees anyway which, along with the quota system, are aimed at reducing their numbers.
Last Thursday the Annual General Meting of the student union at PNL; attended by 330 students, voted by two to one to occupy the college against the The authorities obviously knew that the students would favour secured the administration block and gave a half oft to the statt.
attempt oceupy the computer room also failed, and when students attempted to occupy the rest of that floor a coachload of police arrived. They charged up the stairs through the makeshift barriers, and threatened the arrest of the students under the Criminal Trespass Law The students decided on a tactica] withdrawal, but the determination to FOUR thousand people lobbied the Nottingham County Council meting on Tuesday 16 October to demand "no cuts'. They included representation
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