file by whole of Callaghan's Incomes policy rests These Imits are the amount of cosh say council, hallonallsed Industry, or govemment departmen!, is allocated Increased coste.
E3,500m of cuts this year alone. cont be paid to public sector workors. The Liberals have annonced that they will vote to bring down the Goverment iI any settlements are made over that tigure.
wage thal was voted for by the NUPE conference is submitted by local authority workers, the Gavamment.
MULTUI limits sy sem muste gien ad foss ems) That's why the TUO decision fo threat to jobs, services, and the unity of the working class. Replace thom with thộ tight for a 550 minimum wage and eufomalle increases in publio expendilute lo compensate for the effecis of intistion.
THE FLOODGATES will be redundancies in the public Government annonces its January spending curs. Throweh the system of cash limits, which lakes no account of the effects of inflation on pronc Britain's bosses to 'hold the line' againsr wage cfaims submitted by the lowest paid section of organised workers in Britain minimum wage, did decide to support these workers and others who in the course of their wage claims run into the cash limit trap. The claims decided on by these workers at their summer union conferences threaten to do just that.
That's why the trade union leaders are now backing down.
PATRICK SIKORSKI, a hopstal Birmingham, exposes their backpedalling and tels how local ancillary workers are fighting back.
OuT pay neonatons are an annua farce conducted every November at a safe distance from the rank and file, The first act was plaved out Jast week, when union lenders met to consider their joint claim to the employers.
Wage bogotiations for manual CASH LIMITS are tho comer stone on which the increased need In services oi Thai's how Lebour has Imposad The CBl has demanded that no increaso over 10 por If a claim even near the target of e C60 minimum winl say thare is no money. I1 will say that i the claim is : mot thousands will have to be sacked and serrices cutback even further The system le designed to" Isolato and defeat the seven milion workers in the public opened for massive sector when the Labour Around of public Callaghan will seek to honour his pledge to manual workers in the public sector.
The TUC in Blackpool, while voting against a £50 WA shop steward in markers, as with millions of orbe BA A TA WATTeR STE CurLI hrough Whitley councils These councils, comprised of employer and trade union leaders, were set up hy Winston Churchill in the 1920's to 'pratect" the weakly organised.
Ar with other aspects of the great man's work, their effect is ist the apposie. u mon soucis e Whitey Co uich fist ot all nge taff' sid of the Ancillary among themselves an the lowes IS possible cinim from cach of their union conferences. Thei they ne OnAte AA11 MSDOSWO meet the Government. Th rest of the Whitley councils then follow saite, finishing up with tb burses abd midwives in April o he following yea are changing. The HILT NE steady growth of a shop stewards moveent aniong ancilary workOE SIRI SIE OO 10E 10U1 SISLE KI3 rank and file can begin to organise to have their say In Harmingham stewards represcaLDe porters Bom Ene nu onal Union of Public Employees the Transport and General Work en riSin ChalCiCna! of Health Service Employees met al the beginning of September to work cut a pay claimt co nite all ancillary workers.
This was what they came up +155 per week minimum wage.
Phase 2 pasments into the basie T nEeSOI0 DANTeOEUEa essale for inflatio 35-bour meel o werks samusa caye Though the meeting was inirially Calico Jor porci sot, tis sort o claim was felt to be ahle to unite al ancillary workers. So a conference Will be called in Birmingham Dot her month with the aim of brondening sappart for the policy across che public sector in the West Midland
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