Divide and rule on London Transport | Socialist Action 1983

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THREE YEAR on London Transport tube and bus fares has just hit the headlines.

This follows the popular introduction of 25 per cent fare cuts and timesaving travel cards Covering bus and tube rides.

This press fanfare is part of a cleverly orchestrated campaign by London Transport management the Tories to mask the shady side of LT operations. these popular changes 6000 job losses for transport workers and big cuts in services.

By Patrick Sikorski, NUR If the three year freeze is broken this wil be blamed on union refusal to accept job cuts and stepped up productivity.

This divide and rule, setting passengers against Ju workers. draws attention away from the real the Tories who CLICHL refuse central government funds and block Greater for public transport.

this government attack, li are trvine to torce productivity sacrifices LICH their books. Underground workers to balance and bus drivers are told that opposition to driver only operation will threaten their jobs wage packets.

London Transport Underground. This way • tor money and direct services. The rail and other Underground unions have for this deal.

In exchange for a j.z per cent pay increase, productivity Grounds are to be settled by All the other parts of the original union pay claim have been These include job saving measures like a 35 hour week and an extra week's holiday.

Sadly the Labour GLC leaders have adopted the of negotiation and collaboration with management instead fightback in the depots and unions.

Dave Wetzel, chairperson of the GLC transport committee explained the rank and file monthly paper Busworker that the approacn in nis balanceu Plan accepts more driver oy operallon anu cuts l bus mileage.

The GLC now has to face Thatcher's plan to smash to pieces. Reliance on their courts and arbitration is a recipe for disaster, as ine masco of the Fares Fair campaign showed. wants to If save the GLC it must give a lead along with those fighting against driver only operaof track Martial law for Poland's Prime Minister General Jarazelski WHEN IS Peoples Cooperative not come ver Well, munist party the Communist when the people start interfering and wanting to run what they had erronously been told was their's to run.

According to legend Morning Star is not owE-