level were, writes JONATHAN HAMMOND These include a agreement on top of the existing nationn! arreementi 20-30 per cont pay rises when pay policy perbuts, together with a commitment from the management not to let NOJ membership fall below the level at which it was just before the strike (81,35 per cent). And not eta virote and wiled chaoe a Darlington, made so by its experiences on the picker line Other positive gains were the several months of rank and file members or the toree print unions at Darlington, NGA. SLADE and NATSOPA. These unions did not nicker loes and brought the papers to a halt. reducing them to a duplicated two-page broadsheet.
Negative. dispute across from the NU executive's indecisive handling and this is also a self-criticism, even though 1 and others on the executive argued for an early escalation of the dispute. After the print unions hecame involved, it was never clear how far the TUC Printing Industries Conunittee had taken control of the dispute from the NUt executive, and this divided responstbality had a fatal effect on the timing of the proposed escaiation, which 3n the event never took place SUPERB Nongol thiscriticism reflects on John Hodgman, the NUT full-time official with respon sibility for the dispute, who, it was generally agreed, did superajob.
The ains of a closed shop in journalism need to be debated far more within the journalists union. It is fair to say that the Darlingson chapel's motive in trying 10 SCLUTEL closed shop was an industrial The epic journalists" strike at North of England the Newspapers, Darlington, has just come to an end after a record seven months, with both positive and negative results. The hundred per cent post-entry shop, which was the 110-strong chapel's overall objective in the dispute, was not achieved. But valuable gains at local Industrial strength be the sole reason for having a closed shop i don't believe that the 100 by inset bring fundamental shift idcology Is a coange mac basic ownership and BEYONE SEE BIH LOT sai lo dothat. What it can do, bowever is to put a chape or a group of chapels in a position apply, Creatively sensitively, the NUT's Code of Conduct, to mitigate the worst the aspects of anti-trade unionism, racism and sexism as they affect.
newspaper's A case in point is the closed-shop agreement the NUT has Whitworth, Stratford Express in East London, clause recognising the primac of the Code of Conduct The recent agreement betsoen the NUJ and reporting could also bocome a vory шрот Tacroe wher about closed shops on provincia!
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As Ten ros the conduct o structure of future dispares of this kind, the offers made by the NGA and SLADE executives to tle NUT. to explore the possibility of a common strategs and closed shops, needs to be taken up. Nevertbeless, the journal. ists" union also has to learn to sand on its own two feet and take own.
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