Workers met on Tuesday If Dresber and decided to 300 delegates calate industrial action in support of a claim for a orter working week.
tional Joint Council's London meeting. If no substantially imwea orrer 1s a claim for a reduction in basic working week to 37 hours residential staff in elderly Die s nomes work up lo hours a week • branwill be encouraged to ghen up the action at level.
Residential workers I impose a strict 9-5 day, using to do clerical and ministrative work, banduties d taking strike action.
action has cady started. In ShefNational cal Government OfAssociation ambers at 23 children's Plastics, Redditch, canises on Monday 10 October. Over 100 supokers belong.
They are fighting for SLUI datement. Their apindustrial al comes up on Londismissed joining the union and Tabs were recruited to The firm it the workers on an representing b residential place on Monday 17 October to support a mass homes were on strike for one day on 10 October. NATCO and seven NUPE Salford eight at the Park LICHUCIS House assessment centre have been on TOI month now.
UVCE Essex strikes continue at the Boyles Assessment Centre, Westcliffe on Sea.
Portsmouth members on Strikes have also occured in Strathclyde, Coventry, Tameside, Croyden, Northamptonshire, War(Leamington, Rugby and Norwich) and Haringey. Establishments have closed Barnet, Lambeth Brent.
Threatened strikes in mounted a picket of the 84 hour week - seven 12 hour shifts.
Although the company invested 500,000 in new equipment and is very profitable, wages affair nas been shambles. They applied for negotiating rights, but Bury Dorset have forced management to drop admission plans, and in Cleveland strike action has won reinstatement of a sacked union member supporting the national action.
In Kent 230 NALGO members in social services are still on strike and eltec. tively picketing the Kent Council central supplies depot at West Malling. The Council still trying to use Tebbit's. laws to smash this secon dary picketing?
tine show solidarity Kent strikers made up one of the largest contingents in support of Muhammed Idrish use Defence Campaign demonstration in Birmingham supported by NALGO.
Delegates the meeting discussed motions from Lambeth, Brent and Barnet branches of NALGO calling for ballot for all-out indefinite when the workers were equivocated calling the other NOMM workers out.
They discouraged the nine mounting picket and made a hash of the first tribunal. Jack Langford, the district bears most responsibility for this, but he now seems determined This is a bit late in the that black.
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always see the point of joining unions. strike action by residential workèrs. Motions Wigan South Tyneside called for nationally-called actions like a ban on 'sleeping-in' duties.
•Powerful speeches were made calling for solidarity with those already out on strike. But although the limitations of selective action were pointed out, especially the divisions between those strike action SHEFFIELD CITY Council employment department have produced a pamphlet arguing the case for railway electrification.
Their effort is supported by GEC Traction Sheffield joint shop stewards' coillice.
and local representatives of the NUR, ASLEF and the Confederation of Shipbuilding.
Engineering Unions.
The authors explain, 'Electrification of Britain's main line railways has been under discussion nationally for number of years.
It is supported by the Labour Party, the TUC, the rail unions and sundry organisations from across the political spectrum.
*Public reports in 1981 and 1982 have made a clear case for a UL U of electrification The government has failed to act.
'More than that, it has implemented an outright attack on Brirailway network through limits most recently, proposals to close engineering works The recently published Serpell report sounds a warning for further cuts o cone.
"The purpose of this GO those not, the majority of delegates supported the present approach of the union's national committee. They have promoted a 'shopping list' of tougher actions from which branches can choose.
The residential workers deserve support Corner NALGO members and the rest of the labour movement. national campaign is needed to step up the strikes publicise their just pamphlet is to outline the case for electrification;
indicate the barriers the government has plac ed in the way of its implementation and to look claim.
victory for them would be a real contribution to building opposition to the Tories' plans for the public services.
• ON MONDAY 17 October, thousands residential workers strike action and 2000 lob bied the national negotia tions in London, at which no offer was made.
On the same day, Bury more widely at the programme electrification.' • For further details o)
the campaign to electrif) social services' ment closed three children's homes, locked out the staff and dispersed the children all over North Photo: MORNING STAR Wales and Lancashire.
Over residential workers are on indefinite Social services' staff will be out on strike on 26 October for the day and the following day mass meeting will be asked to bring al memoer OU. on a series of one day strikes.
for jobs contact: Mick raaaon Employmen Department, Sheffield City Council, Palatine Chambers, Pinstone Street, Sheffield I.
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The meeting authorised the 24 hour strike which by of the negotiations with the employer at the
mers turned out, with representatives from Birm- ham and Redditch trades councils and the Na- cal Society of Metal Mechanics, to which the
Flen HE SONALY CHODSE AY UP
The Case for Railway Electrification
• . By Mark Hackett, Bury NALGO Residential workers fight for shorter hours