INJUNCTIONS WERE common as confetti last week as Rupert Murdoch tried to put the squeeze on short of what's required.
TUC disciplinary acagainst the electri· TRADE UNIONISTS BEWARE! * RUPERT MURDOCH'S NEWSPAPER WORKERS HAVE MADE HIM MILLIONS IN PROFIT THEIR REWARD - movement. A RECENT meeting of the north west regional council of the TUC overwhelmingly gave full backing to the print workers Only three EETPU delegates at the meeting voted against.
The resolution, put forward to the meeting b the TUC regional council officers, noted that 'dismissal of 5000 members engaged in an official dispute is industrial dictatorship' and 'a matter of grave concern' 'to all unions.
Among other actions, the regional called on affiliates 'offer all A MASS meeting engineering firm Colman voted unanimously boycott the transport firm the striking national. job slaughter latest range of puterised Birmingham NGA equipment arrives ing.
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skilled crafts people produce. physical, moral and financial' support to unions in volved in the dispute, and agreed to organise regula liasison meetings with the unions concerned 'to coordinate any necessary action' The north west region TUC is calling on all trade boycott tional titles and not to cross picket lines.
an AUEW divisional organiser for the north west and presidential candidate in the union's forthcoming elections, •has recently written to Brenda Dean and Tony Dubbins offer1112 'any assistance whatever' from engineers.
the Internationa scab papers, is also commonly used in Mallulal turing. A letter from the shop stewards committed at Colman Fasteners to the local AUEW district committee urges that amongst other forms of solidarity the boycott of TNT be adopted as policy by union members throughout the mausly.
cal Association, which organises apprentice trained skilled workers in this area has attempted to ensur that its members take up new opportunities elsewhere. , But those ver! areas slashter if the best wholesal leaders encourase their the NGA. wages, hours, and conditions fought for over gellerd tions will be lost ovenight if tame company deals like the one Eric Hammond seems to troduced.
The same is true for SOGAT whose traditional the publishing department, needs only a few supervisors dispatchers when up-to the-minute bundling loading egmoment Is ID stalled. SOGAT members under threat equali rom Wapping type deal But it's not just the print incimated hich decimated. Such agreements will have impact elsewhere. Ever single print worker, every other trade unionis porting fight that now on at Wapping
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