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We'll treat them like Tories'

· Socialist Challenge No. 87, 15 March 1979 · p. 5 of the scan · 447 words

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built in the union.

the ComWORCES CAN in members or the full-time of- nexx weeks.

which of organising an tions for conference next year.

circulate policy documents.

the lack of rights paper winOI BUSCE ranging the increase women in NUPE.

The CAN platform is to be expanded into policy papers SUDUULLCIS the campaign will argue for their voted BaCCO 2000s Tese.

NUPE's annual

taken, The union would then have these DAUCES nationally, providing an alternative to the executive's own The Work has already begun on the production of a women's agreement The NUPE East Midlands government's division has produced a report facilities in negotiations. conjunction with the Nottingham Workshop, and a wider report being commissioned by the NUPE ILEA district committee on technology and press freedom.

And the liaison committee brought about measure of unity between the half dozen unions involved in has otherwise remained on the side and the threat of another lock-out will keep it that way unless the unions take action to challenge 'right' to decide whether production resumes.

A work-in is the best means for the workers to take the It would rally support fontedefence of jobs, demonstrate pracuical way thi need for the labour movement to have its own mass daily NUPE member LOCAL AUTHORITY workers in Tower Hamlets fight on. A mass meeting last Thursday overwhelmingly to escalate the action already beins placing all counci employees on all-out strike.

This now includes helps, meals on wheels, and staff at residential homes. members of NUPE, TGWU, decision and GMWU is in defiance of the by these unions accept the miserable pay offer. We are demanding local The Labour-controlled coun cil has been very obliging. Its only suggestion so far is that if we go back to work they'll talk about the claim.

The mass meeting had a The TIMES Challenger More Press-Not these STUP THE CLOSURE:

Times staff call for re-instatement and resumption of publication different idea. The message was: *If the Labour council wants to behavelike Tories we'll treat them like Tories.' One of the Tower Hamlets councillors is Jamie Morris, the NUPE branch secretary Westminster Hospital, whose determination to refuse services to David Ennals was rapidly followed by Morris's call to end all action in the hospital.

We wait with interest to see if turn-coat Morris can reconcile his ambition to be a Labour MP with support for our claim.

*A mass meeting of local authority workers in Hackney, East London, voted this week to end their all-out strike and Their demand for negotiations met with only one concession: to cut their 38-hour week by one hour from next August.

Socialist Challenge 15 March 1979 page 5

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