pst ON THURSDAY and Friday, 7 and 8 May, all 65,000 members of the Civil and Public Services Association (CPSA) and the Society of Civil and Public Servants (SCPS) in London and the southeast will be on strike.
The action is the latest in the joint campaign by the two unions over pay and hours. The campaign began at the beginning of the year with the submission of a claim for a wage rise of f20 or 15 per cent, minimum wage and a 35-hour week.
he unions issued ovel million leaflets workplace meetings were held leading the ballot for dustrial action. the f or 4.25 pes oft, toe members voted massively in favour of the initial sixweek campaign of indusJ.L...... nattered Stupie marched Roehampton in south-west weekend to show their solidarity Name Address I enclose chequ Action for £ eristered as a news per we cue rus rule ablished by Cardinal Enterprises, PO Box 50, London N Printed by East End Of(eet Ltd. (TU), London E2. Civil servants step up action trai acuon, the CPSA recorded per and the SCPS votes reflected SHIC deep-felt opposition to the the civil service over the last sevelt In that time 'we Vicals. nave lost 140,000 Jobs ana workloads double' general Leslie Christopher, told a mass meeting in London's Old Vic theatre last month.
The period has seen civil service pay decline bv 20 per cent compared to equivalent pay in the private sector. A fifth the with the SUBSCRIBE Inland 24 issues £10 48 issues £20 Send to: Socialist Action Subs, PO Box 50, London NI 2XP. of civil servants earn less than £115 per week, leave alone the Council of Eur125en The threshold' f125. CPSA estimates that up to 40 per cent of its members may be claiming state benefits to supplement their low pay This week's strike ac tion will involve the re maining unionists етроуса al the GCHQ communications centre. Since the government banned trade unionism from the centre, all but 37 of the 4000 union members have been forced out of union membership.
Next : steps in the campaign of industrial action, which has now been extended further three weeks, will be consideica by the unions who meet in conference next week seven month long strike at the artificial limbmaking firm, J E Hanger.
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