DSOr PIEPHONES! THE GOVERNMENT'S still clings to its remains. over 6 days and the re-nationalisation of BT for all jobs must not be missed.
intention to privatise BT brought a response from the then POEU membership who elected a Broad Left leadership in 1983. That new leadership led the union into the fight over privatisation. The selective industrial action crumbled after the NEC failed to stand firm against a court injunction ordering the union to stop industrial action against the private Telecoms At the time the infamous job security agree ment (JSA) was upheld by the courts and the GEC as the saviour of the Telecom workers. Since that action the JSA has shown itself to be no more than as redeployment agreement. Unfortunately while the membership now recognise the JSA for what it is. the GEC (Engineering Group Executive Council)
Since the failure of the privatisation campaign vocations by producing the 'Broad Strategy'. This document is well researched and compreensive but it has no strategy for saving jobs NOW. The strategy gives the union's response to every aspec of the new profit orientated BT. Its main trusts are the negotiation of the 32 hour 4 day week spread This strategy is shown to be inadequate at best . While BT and the PO take on branches individually the GEC had advised branches not to take industrial action but instead to wait for the negotiation of the Broad Strategy. The membership in numerous branches have ignored this advice and launched overtime The longer the leadership of the union wait, the more jobs will be lost. The opportunity at the first annual conference of the NCU to lay out the fight