against privatisation this week, dispute was not over.
By Jenny Davenport and Marcella FitzGerald, London North Central Internal branch of the POEU privatisaresponse 1o Project privatised subsidise ser vice. They to When refused suspended pay.
BT held meetings every paganda to memThis assault on workers That three members higher into until taken competent culice lu than three hours.
3,000 in LONDON telephone engineers ended their strike but said that the ssion of data on comcalled out by the Post North Central area agreed back those suspended and passed unanimously a proposition from Dougie Rice, secretary of the internal branch, calling for support for the union ac. tion.
POEU NEC member Phil Holt Phil Holt, a member of the Broad Left dominated, national executive committee of the POEU told the meeting that the union now had a leadership that was about fighting Jock Campbell, secretary of the City branch got resounding ap plause when he explained that there is no room for half measures and that the POEU 'had to go for the jugular Sented interests at are vein' out to destroy our industry in the name of private profit.
The new executive has already instituted a f1 per week levy of members to build up a strike fund and is approaching other public sector unions for an for a concerted fightback against Tory at tacks on the nationalised industries welfare state.
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[RE L OF THE PETRIPLITAN MORTH NEST BRANCH, P.O.E.U.
April - May.'83. Parliament, Hit By Strike