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A Greater Manchester support COCe IRA Dee! established for the strike. Much needed finance continues to come in especially from miners in tne noru-easl.
Secretary of the strike committee Lony Lowe, explained how the solidarity move had put the strikers on a new "high'.
Boosting support are new exposures COLCC INS CIC company's chairman, Professor Roland Smith. Smith was deeply involved in the House of Fraser, and LS ION appointed chair of British Aerospace to take effect 31 Auguste It's also rumoured that his union-busting activities are making to tale over & Britsh Rail. THE 1/1107 TGWU branch at Ford Dagenham has organised a rally for its members on 'Whv vou should vote Labour' the 27 May •ocakcls al meeting will be local candidates ane dooor. Tony Banks, Bryan Gould and Jo Richardson A special leaflet has been issued IoI Ilass distribution. The leaflet calls on workers to say 'no' to the eight years of Tory attacks It goes on 'All the great freedoms and social reforms achieved in this country - the vote, trade union rights, universal education, the national health service and manv LIOTC were won by the struggles and sacrifices of working people Nothing has ever been given to us.
*The Labour Party transport union, paign of industrial action.
UNDER Tory government legislation in 1984, London Transport took over uhe Tunc ons or neoe GLC-controlled London Iransoort Authoritv and se about splitting it up into • Lonvarwus coubauic don Buses Ltd (LBL), London Underground Ltd, and separate engineering, lift escalator businesses, with others to olow.
The aim has OcCIll 10 cC ucse ucwiy cicalcu companies to compete with outside firms for the work they were originally doing. On the buses this has meant parcelling up the routes into itself was set up to give our class a volce aginst the bosses' Tories and the Liberals. Our rulers would like nothing better than to umn me cock nack o years: which is why their WarCis Dack Luc ncs. back the Alliance as a fall back or call for tactical voting (meaning vote Alliance).
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the Labour Party in order to knock us. Iner know a failure to vote Labour on our part Is an open invitation to attack jobs, wages and working conditions.' Teachers THE NUT and the NAS/UWT have decided to continue with their campaign of strike action during the election period.
NUT deputy general secretary Doug McAvoy THE STRIKE by 20,000 London busworkers on M May was to be the start of a campaign of protest by the TGWU, against the effects of the competitive tendering of routes and services. Now the TGWU has decided to pursue the issue in the courts. ROB JONES, a conductor at Stamford Hill bus garage, argues that the basis exists for a powerful camdistricts networks which are then put out to competitive tender. entecis on busworkers have been devastating, rour thousanc jobs were lost in 1986 and LbL blans to axe anothe 3000 this year. In the last three years, eight halase have been closed and four more are threatened. Conductors have been ticularly hard-hit as more anc nore roues aue converted to one-person operation (OPO) in preparation for them to be put out to tender.
In an industry where rest-day and overtime working has boosted wages to a said that if the action were called off 'our members would not understand and the the issue had gone awalt is wholly appropriate for us to rights during the democratic process of an election' The NUT's inner London division, ILTA is proposing an escalation of its own ampaign against move Dv ILEA t compulsorily redeploy 1300 teachers. They are calling for national union backing for a strike on 4 June. The national union officially backs the call for reopening of negotiations on th redepio ment issue but ILTA met ILEA on 12 May, the Labourcontroled edueation authority refused to discuss the issue. tranera passable level, the sudden «OD W DA wazca caused hardship for many a direct wage cut of f10 to f15 per week.
Now, with the drive to OPO covering 82 per cent of the fleet and virtually completed, LBL bosses are targettting driver operators wale productivity deals. On two occasions LBL bosses have tendered for, and won back, routes on wages and condions cieretl on mese agreed with the union.
At Potters Bar garage most of the staff took redundancy or tranierrea In order to overcome staff LBL IUS. DIC CaLCe busworkers Norbiton with the option of taking a £30 per week wage cut, transfer to another garage perhaps miles away, or face the sack. With this kind of Halarenelt. worucI LBL are understaffed by 1000 drivers.
Dissatisfaction with the The defence campaign for the victimised ILTA officers - suspended and expelled by the NUT leadership for unofficially organising with union policy - is holding a rally 18 June. Dennis Skinner will be one of the speakers.
NUM RETIRING vice-president of the NUM, Mick McGahey, union's South Wales Area President.
Dutfield, took the occasion of the area conference to launch an attack on Arthur Scargill McGahey gave his support to six-day working at Margam. He told the South Wales delegates 'many areas would welcome your •no•cn or bie opportunity to work six days.
1.5: macer :a1 job is now so widespread that LBL have had to resort near-lying auvc! tisements in the national press at exorbitant rates to recruit staff to replace those who prefer to take their wance amongst ine tour 'million unemployed.
By pressing ahead with OPO concessions. manage. ment have created a single fleet slalus allel eliminated the old divisions conductors/crew and OPO drivers. The new-found unity amongst the WOlKOcC was enec edr the solidity of the strike ac. tion. the first tor over 30 years.
London bus committee chair Peter Gibson said that the success oi the action would guide the committee on the next stage of the campaign.
Busworkers will be • looking tor a campaign tc escalate the action and to forge a fighting unity with especially London underDutfield, whose support for six-day coaling is well-known, pitched in against Scargill for failing to find a replacement for tne nanonal concilanor.
and not being 'honest, realistic or consistent' in accepting technology and its implications.
But for the first time, , Dutfield did speak of the six-day coaling project being scrapped. After denouncing as 'hysterical and misguided' criticism of six-day coaling, Dutfield opposed the idea of a breakaway if the union rejected the projec! nationally.
Telecom A SECOND striker has been sacked by BT within the First John Treadway Sound railworker who have also been affecte vy tne bicak-up or lne oi authority.
The one-day and selec tive strikes being aired hav alcauy DolnlCC minds of many to such : united calvalzl . dustrial action. tub guard at Finsbury Larry Herman, said voted by five to one for in austna acuon against In problems faced SaliC busworkers. Many uluci should together with the TGWU.
alleged abuse during the strike itself.
SNOW. activist, John Deason, has been given his cards. Deason was called uD to ‹ management interview to discuss alleged application form. When he asked for the questions to be put in writing, he was summarily dismissed.
Both Deason and Treadaway are member: of the London branch of the NCU which has been the target of a succession of lesser victimisations and witch-hunt. Six branch officers resigned in the midst of these attacks, weakening the union al a crucial time A branch meeting has been called to bea calls for withdrawd ol their resi camap: the
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