Wear THREE hundred public sector workers picketed the Minister when he Thornaby Teesside Friday.
He had been invited by lan by Wrigglesworth, Labour MP and secretary Group.
Callaghan was due to lunch at Middlesbrough town hall but areas NUPE staff there refused to and serve him, and he was forced to eat at a private hotel.
Sine public sector committee refused to NUPE officials to have lunch the Prime Instead pickets handed him a bundle of hundreds of wage slips so that he could see the in level of their take-home pay.
The public sector workers were joined in their protest by WOTHERS Wrightson engineering firm in Middlesbrough, which threatened with closure. Manchester THE 'VICTIMS' of the public sector dispute in Manchester, even those who have crossed picket lines to bury relatives, have made clear on phone-in programmes that they support the aims of the strike.
The extent of public support full ise officials. surprised the in hands presently decisions about who stays in and who comes out. They are used to involving membership When Eve Bryczowski, shop steward in housing branch, proposed that meetings of should co-ordinate the action, the full-time official Head is Press Officer Islington NALGO The scheme adopted by a 2:1 dead meeting on 26 January has been Tavoured BEne leaders since last November. been rejected by the social workers, union who saw it as unclear whose potentially divisive. rest the workers in continuing their strike.
The offer the demands for locally negotiated settlements, and there is no NUPE's pointed groups of workers The deal grades ASSIStANTS consistently level.
cuts across their when they started.
and owe memoers together in Hackney implemented locally in a way that is acceptable to individual establishes five thret for workers and two for welfare with very vague definitions of the role of each The first of the three social workers" levels is more or less the same as the old national After six months on terms. some may well find At themselves on the same grade as Local employers have reteachers first time these unions have go schools.
NALGO workers in the area have now agreed to do no work which will disrupt the actions of The strike committee's plan so far has been to bring out only key personnel. Thus the refuse drivers are on strike but not the between consequence the latter have no Others on indefinite strike are boiler operators in public baths, sewage workers, and could be Only a day after Health David Ennals was Queen Elizabeth children's hospital last week, stroking the heads of babies a 24-hour strike was held TGWU were aland people, such as meals-on-wheels, have liking of Ron been kept operating by the Transport Bristol informing Archway School, on the basis of this agreement, and there are fears that they are prepared to sit it out.
NALGO's determination to find a compromise deal rather than strengthen the strike gives obstmare councus, Ike towel Hamlets, grounds for thinking that if they refuse to make concessions then the strikers will eventually be forced back to work on the worst possible the special delegate meeting, where social workers were greatly outnumbered by other local government repre- | leadership.
For pupils CHECHE A campaign is being the instruction to scab With the outcome of the 35 per cent pay claim that has now been submitted for teachers so closely tied to developments in the public sector, solidarity is of obvious importance.
Joint meetings in schools NUT and NUPE members should be the first step and it needs to be taken urgently since any teacher who refuses to cross a picket line victimised by our union leadership. Avon A DAY of action locally on the public sector claim is not to the Dagger, the Union's district officer for general workers in He told a mass meeting of health and council stewards on 27 January that such action had to be 'confirmed nationally' -which wasn't simply a matter of once but, according to Dagger, having the proposal vetted' Although the union officially now. says it's up to branches to decide what action to take, it has refused to take any lead in linking the various sectors. effect of the strike on the the summer, they claimed, for a fight against the 5 per WOEKCES promise of any action in the General secretary Geoffrey Drain is one of the signatone. of moderates'. incomes policy statement.
As delegate at the meeting said: 'NALGO ha: proved itself to be the Micke Mouse outfit that some of it members suspected.
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of the Local Government Officers Union. some time despite this agreement.
negotiation framework by a special delegate meeting It looks as though strike action will continue for
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