Victimisation threat to journalists

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DESIGNER required TO work for Socialist Challenge/ Fl Litho.

Must be politically committed.

Knowledge of printing Jane broouctor techniques, especially platemaking, an advantage.

Apply in writing to Fl Litho, 328/9 Upper St, London N1 Socialist Challenge 25 January 1979 page 6 NUJ North London branch ENDING of THE seven-week strike of provincial journalists, with the decision to ACCEDE 4.) per increase, has brought a mixed response members of the National Union of Journalists who affected.

Certainly, this level of pay rise would never have achieved without the fought industrial action first nationa strike union's history.

But the settlement falls fai below the £20 claim, and for juniors - those with less than the means under f5.

The employers have once again succeeded in maintaining the differentials which provin8,500 cial journalists have long been concerned to narrow. were The worst settlement, however, is that the union leadership recommended been the deal without ensuring that hard. there would be - Ine SaUO in the At the Nottingham Evening Post, where the unions were experience before-tax rise of Kent, and elsewhere.

tion. aspect of the strike until meeting no tatives majority. smashed after a strike in 1973, 28 journalists now stand to lose their jobs. Threats of dismissa have also been made against probationers in Sittingbourne, the NUJ chapels were asked to damaged vote on the pay offer before we Above had the information about the revealed the failure to secure no-victimisaA proposal to continue the the CYCLYUHE reinstated, put to a national chapel represenon 17 January, was defeated by a three to two unless there Since the chapels themselves settlement. had already voted to return, this result wasn't surprising.

Unless there is a united effort now to win total reinstatement, prospects HEUTE industrial action will be gravely the all, the strike has of sier elecuing a stnne leauersinp Our action lacked national leadership, and when it came to crunch the full-time officials suffered a bad failure of nerve. This persuaded them - without any real evidence -that the strike would collapse was a quick