AFTER a meeting at the Naz Cinereu in Briek Lane ou Saturday, where Right to Work marchers beard angry speeches, there wus music from CRISIS and then the march to Brixton was on. wus Joined till thén by the Campaign Agninst Youth Unemployment.
Then RTW was on ils own all the way to Brighton, tamest TUC in years was assembling to get a lot of soft talk from TUC leuders and Callaghan.
There they began to pot the heat te the TUC and won a lot of sympathy from several delegates, especially those from Liverpoo] SIX couneil workers on strike DUSULSLDNC. TMESITE saroured the hospitality of the locad nick last Friday after being arrested for trying to stop seah contractors from doing confrontation was strikers and 80 cops. But behind the police is a Tory concil that is determined smash direct Labour organisation in Hasinestoke.
The strike, now in ios tinh POCK, IS TOC TESU OL ERG SOCEE engagement by the local council private repairs, breaking union agreements. The mainsection immediatel called a strike and were soon joibed by all sections of the manual labour force Over 30 tours of negotiahave since) produced norhing, while scabs are being employed to sweep the town centre. The council announoed More equal TIME OUT, the London news the and culture magazine, has not appeared for the last two weeks COR TR MISDIEEE with the joint NE'J, NGA und chapel, reports SYLFIA BLISS.
The unions at Time Out have maintalned an equal-pay-for-all policy so that all staff - from switch-board operators to journalists ceive the same salary of t4,B0X)
The only agroed exceptions are jobs, designated as management posts under the bouse agreerner Time Oul managemer gets its way, the number exempted posts wall be upped to eight. Mandy Merck. copy Few:
BACKING WIETE LEI Sast woek that contractors were to be brought in to shilt rubbish dumps that have fornied oo the C419 When the cowboys arrived at che dumps on Friday, so did a protection squad of 80 police and 130 strikers, Strikers were kicked and pushed around, and WO SEDe CIneue Seco: tary Peter Drastield comp lainod to the polioe, be wa arrested for using obscene language.
In the struggle that followed, live other concil workers were Thrown into police vans. Four were charged with obstruction and one with assaule Al this point the contractors reconsidered cheir abd -NECI WE But the council has nor given in. They have the support of the Toiy Party nationally, which is ony too keea to turn council work over to private enterprise Money aud mEAOSL sapport to: Pete Dransfiekl Old Raven House, Hook, a | Resingstoke, Hants.
editor on the magazine, says: 'Paricy has heen the mainstay of chapel unity.
"We've known for years tha niagazine's owner deterntined to change the old "egalitarian lippy spstem" that we operate •We are equally determined to defend our agreement.
The last two issues of the weekly magisine were lost as the chapel called mandatory meetings the twc important production days WELEE L Ds BOW BItE! cnod to stop pay if the magazine does Bol abpear Uns wock It justifies its obstinacy on the grounds that bigh pay is noeded to attract che "right cabbre! person to the new job The staff say they all need to he well paid, not just a privileged Socialist Chullenge 7 September 1978 page 5
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