POEU special conference New mandate to fight privatisation

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ACTION A weekend of socialist debate and discussion FACING 1984: THE POST OFFICE Engineers voted to continue their campaign of industrial action against Tory plans to privatise their industry at their special conference in London last weekend. DENNY FITZPATRICK from the West London branch of the union was there.

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RITISH TELECOM 1g yours Post Office engineers on City of London picket rejected calling on the union to accept the Tories' a 2-1 margin. Instead the endorsed ecutive report to continue POEU Picket the anti-privatisation camthe failed to spell out the specific forms of future action. Motions calling for action to hit stock-brokers and other financial institutions as well as those call ing for all-out action with other public sector unions were not reached on the agenda.

The union's chairperson assured that they were only oppos ed because they tied the executive s nanas All such motions were reterred to the union's in dustrial Action Strategy Committee the body responsible for nationally coordinating the action against privatisation. This means that following the conference pressure from the rank file of the union will have to intensify the 'package of in dustrial action measures the executive report spoke should the executive so decide The broadsheet issued by the union's broad left at the conference argued that selected action can lead to isolation and that would provide us with an excementi overn which to breathe life into • our successtul propositior to the TUC on joint action in defence of the public sector.' An important amend ment carried with NEC support reflected this sentiment instructing the executive to approach other public sector unions fight a coordinated battle governmenl plans without necessarily waiting for the TUC to in itiate such a campaign.

The decision of the special conference to continue the fight gives a mandate to the rank and file of tion 'pirates of the NEC nomination has been placed before the Despite all their cries of the right wing in the never put the matter before conterence when they had the majority on the executive.

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