for extending the dispute inFleet Street where it can be won. Support for the sacked printers Policing gets heavier FOUR people, including SOGAT FOC, had been arrested as early as nine o'clock on Saturday's march to This is just the latest example of a noticeable increase in police heavy-handedness over the last few weeks.
They even did their best spoil the Year's celebrations held outside the sacked La symbolic from within SOGAT Was shown last year by the election of Mike Hicks and Bill Freeman to the union's naing fortress.
dards of be distributed, the Year's completely that night!
On December, involved marevening marchers tube where the Waterloo station RIS and transport has Management have a policy own work' table.' •..and in rail Agreement.
Drivers' Assistant, jobs. tacks on jobs, conditions and services in the rail industry, industrial action is planned by drivers in the Southern Region, by guards at on the London underground. NUR members, CHRIS MORLARRY HERMAN explain the Workers on the London Underground will be This follows their four to one ballot vote in favour of taking industrial action. It follows a successful boycott or canteens last month, the vote expresses the deep-felt opposition to management privatisa.
cost-calling threaten the jobs, wages and conditions of service The NUR predicts that they will also mean deteriorating safety conditions as well. The old separate units with the stricture that each must be In their thirst for profits and higher productivity, hundreds of workers in the building department have been made redundant, contract cleaners have been brought in and catering statt are threatened with changes to their conditions which could mean weakest sections first. Meanwhile they are refusing to Vernon Hince, the assistant general secretary of the NUR, said 'Underground workers are being placed in the unreal position of having to tender for their Jimmy Knapp, the General Secretary of the NUR, called at a rally for tube workers for 'a massive YES mandate to bring LRT management to their senses and strengthen our hand at the negotiating Drivers on Southern Region are planning industrial action against the Easement of Manning As well as abolishing the grade of inis agreement increases ine number of miles and hours a driver can work each day, and weakens the entitlement to a meal break. This would mean worse working conditions and more accidents, and Will lead to the loss of drivers ASLEF first said that BR's proposals were totally unacceptable. BR replied that they would impose them without agreement if necessary. ASLEF's NEC then discarded drivers' hard-won rights without a The guards in Waterloo NUR are planning an unofficial one day strike in protest against the imposition of trials for driver only operation of empty trains. Management deceitfully claimed that emp ty movements were included in the existing DOO agreement, which was adopted after the loss of a attacks launched by BR in a process which is design. ed to decimate jobs on the railways, undermine the wages and conditions of the remaining workers, deu nionise the industry and prepare for privatisation -and to obstruct the right to travel around the coun try for all but the wealthy. The government has announced a twenty-five per cent cut in the 'Public Meanwhile the January issue of BR's company newspaper Rail News announces that BR is intending to merge the grades of guard and driver's assisgrade of trainmen trainwomen. Staff in this new grade will compete for promotion to conductor and senior conductor or The action by the Waterloo guards and southerr drivers shows that railworkers are not willing to acThe government's legislation on ballots aims c undermine these actions by undemocratically givir. a veto to sections of the workforce who believe tha: they are not immediately under threat. A strategy o: repeated ballots is not a way to defeat managemen:
Rather it will be determined action by rai workers backed by the labour movement which wi be key. East London District Council of the NER have submitted a motion to the London Labour P= ty's regional conference calling on the net lair= government to legislate for a guard on even Fa. Such motions can be very usetul in brossem labour movement support, but fighting back o will be the best way to ensure the best possibi measures by any future Labour government.
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