IMGpapers 1976–79

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1976–79

The wages battle... VICTORY CAN BE OURS!

Socialist Challenge No. 73, 23 November 1978 · p. 1 of the scan · 325 words

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YES - BUT WANTED IT BACKDATED TO THE INVENTION OF THE WHEEL! ...IN THE NATIONAL INTEREST!!

WHEN I HEAR O O THE PHRASE 'NATIONAL INTEREST" the issues are, importance. for the National Union of Public Employees.

the radio and TV.

Although what prompted my resignation was the union's handling of a local dispute, I believe, of Here is what happened.

For four and a half years NUPE and the Transport and General Workers Union have been negotiating on behalf of ambulance workers in the West Midlands to obtain a financial settlement for a pay anomaly dating back before the re-organisation of the ambulance service in 1974.

I KNOW LOO SOMEONE. IS TRYING TO CRUSH ME! You may have read of my resignation in the newspapers or heard about it on national BY not an isolated incident.

strike a decent wage.

by prepared to back it. made Action is the key.

and country.

all keep up that pressure.

This week the leaders of the TUC plan once again to meet the Labour Government in an attempt to hammer out a deal over wage restraint.

At the same time the leaders of the TUC are doing nothing to support the bakers' But the bakers' strike is in accordance with the policy of the TUC and the Labour Party — for free collective bargaining and against the 5 per cent limit. It is they who represent the wishes of working people.

UNIFICATION

Whether it be bakers, ambulance workers in the Midlands, or the Ford strikers, hundreds of thousands of trade unionists have shown their willingness to struggle for When the leaders of the unions are not and organise that struggle, then they become an obstacle to They are not an irremovable obstacle.

The TUC have been unable to come up with a deal so far because of the pressure from trade unionists up and down the After Ford's and for the bakers, let us Irish

← SMASH LYChris Adamson, area officer, National Union of →

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