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service, has revealed that the union prepared to accept payment in stages.
How can civil capitulating on pay?
Lord Peart has recommended that Pay search findings be paid by April 1980, the amount being agreed by arbitration.
It takes little imagination to guess what the first stage increase would be - the going rate' established by the public sector of per cent, thereabouts.
InIS is near the demand of the civil service union conferences for unfettered Pay Research. The Pay Research findings are based on pay position servants now, April Lord Peart, the Minister responsible for the civil leaders are servants prevent their leaders 1980.
You cannot pay today's bills now with promises of increases next Re- year.
The selective action which involves 1,300 union members will certainly force government to give the 'going rate' - that much, in any case, was guaranteed by what ine public sector or WON More is needed to win the claim in full. The objective has to be to involve membership in action.
In a review policy, the Civil civil Services Association larger of the two unions taking for selective strike action.
The unlike the private sector, government is not motivated by profit, and because it can claim that strikes bv interfere with the democracy of government, me umons cannot win a major confrontation.
Leaving aside the fact that this means giving up hope of victory neither argument Workers in the public sector do hit directly profits when they take action.
Their ability to win depends on the gaining the support of other workers and ZOYCEILLICHIL This requires the involveworkers have ment of all the membership.
The participation of per percent of the members in the one-das strike on 23 February shows the whole that they can be won to action.
The claim that strike action or is striKe by civil servants and Public democracy is on a par with the argument that action by health workers puts life at risk. Both argues that, puts these things at risk.
SUNC UnCH civil servants living standards you begin, Public right. staged deal, private isolating members should disrupts one-day that it is the goverment which To deny the civil servants the right to strike is to deny them democratic right organise in defence of their With a paltry pay offer or the cards, civil servants should the membership of the CPSA and the Society of Civil and Servants against any and for the stepping up of action to involve the membership nationally.
Branch and area committee pay action sub-committees are needed to involve members in deciding what action to take.
The SCPS is pledged to hold regional one-day strikes. CPSA organise in their union for a refusal to cross the picket lines, and wherever possible to join in the strikes.
Mass support on the picket lines of those taking selective action can be achieved by area strikes, and the rejection of any staged deal. FIVE thousand students marched through London last Friday as part of the National Union of Students' campaign for a 27 per cent increase in the basic grant, mandatory grant provision for all 16 to 19 year old students, and an end to the means test (a survey published in 1975 showed that 75 per cent of students did not have their award made up to the full amount by their parents).
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an offer which will almost certainly fall far short of the claim for the full implementation of the Pay Research