Socialist Challenge1979Socialist Challenge No. 86, 8 March 1979Merseyside fights on
Socialist Challenge No. 86, 8 March 1979 · p. 16 of the scan · 134 words
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LOCAL government manual workers in Merseyside voted to reject the employers' national offer at a Sunday. The Merseyside liaison committee, representing GMWU, NUPE and TGWU, issued the following statement:
*This offer is an insult and we must reject it. How can we get a better deal?
'At present we are tied to a national agreement which covers all local authority manual workers in Britain, with the exception of those groups who have broken away rom the national agreement and achieved local negotia"Our wages are at present the negotiated by full-time union officials. These people cannot appreciate our problems cause they do not have to bring up families on our wages.
*The incompetence of these national officials self-evident in the way they have handled this dispute and HOW have the audacity recommend such