"trade union reforms'.
HICKEY.
Picketing The prevention of "secondary picketing' means the prevention of effective picketing control by union officials over picketing, as in the Concordar.
Tories" proposed legal restrictions.
Secondary picketing is no more than a way of preventing the employer from evading the consequences of a strike by continuing to distribute products and receive supples.
Sending out flying pickets allows you to draw on Inc solidarity of workers in other places to prevent the distribution of the employers" and the despatch of supplies in the first place.
In the lorry drivers" strike, the only way to prevent firms from using their own drivers or scab fems to move their goods bakery workers' strike, ineffective picketing of the bakery employers) was one reason why the strike Tailed. assumptions made in the Concordat, argues Strike ballots Strike ballots are a way of workers responding rapidly to manageTELL A BUSES.
not have a ballot before they speed ap machines, lay workers, sack Even ballots molass designed to break down the collective discussion where all the arguments about what to do be weighed Workers are left instead with 100d5 only the press and media to influence their decision It's no accident that strike ballots were part of Heath's Industrial Relations Act.
the coseu shop Once you agree that not every worker need be in the union, the employer can induce or intimidate other into not joining a union. They and postal Emplovers do off shop are by the can turn into the most willing It was the "conscientious objectors who scabbed in the recent provincial journalists' strike and underConcordat and Tory proposals workers effectively editors and your demands.
decisive. mean no closed Strike action as a last resort?
No worker wants to strike.
But strike action is often not a last resort — it is the only resort The when an employer say "No' to sid very of loine in you allow more likely. employer to prepare for a strike by wasting time drawing out negotiations, you will be forced into a much longer strike when it does take place.
Tories talk about making the unions bear the cost of strike action - by cutting social security for strikers or by delaying tax rebates till the strike is over, since this affects more workers. America will be vital to a First of all, we pay our taxes and social security or tax rebates are our right when we But the purpose is to make strike action dependent WHEN HELDE WEARE strike pay The Ford strike of last year then got official backing s do most strikes. The Torie want to prevent the membershp want to prevent the member ship from deciding to take action and then forcing the union to back them up.
Trade union reform mean rendering trade unions ineffes tive. Trade unionists have to organise against threat, and demand an end to the talks.
Trades council could take the lead in holding local union conferences the Tor proposals, and setting up srade ution defence committee based on stewards committee and union bodies. Preparatior must begin now - don't bi Tulled by the talks.
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THE TORIES will be using the concession made in the Labour government/TUC Concordat to justify their To defend basic union rights means rejecting the