HANDS OF TELEPHO BETRAYAL SALE CENTURY OF THE LAST WEEK the POEU conference pulled back from the brink of confrontation by voting to comply with the court's injunction stopping the embargo on Mercury.
The next day they voted unanimously to up inel campaign against Aiter the vote Colin Walsh, secretary of the Internationa Service whose members are in the sixth week l aclol pledged full support.
He told of the militarystyle take over of international services which involca me use or ponce alu security agents. They had chucked out the members and barred and locked the exchanges to stop them occupying. He himself had been treated like a common criminal, even belng watched when he went to LaC oleL ie auow has a 24-hour picket outside Mondial House, Upper Thames St, London to which al members should turn up to support.
Solidarity Labour MPs — Terry Corbyn have already been there to show their solidarity:
really Nonoaa vital. This week BT might with sackings ai cae which Brian Stanley the union's general secretary says 'would provoke response not just from the whole membership ... but the whole of the Inon ovenenl cwna happened at International happen anywhere else.
Occupations are means of taking the fight forward ana can lnsolre nallola. strike action. The action at une salte ule carti stallolls in Goonhilly has knocked the third station satellite makes up 50 pe of the COLU services, the other half is cable i ne branches are really determined and have shown the way for other POEU HeNOCN Amons CUll ference delegates there was a mood that can be buil for all-out action their donation of £61,817 showed that.
Although the con ference ducked the issue ol an all-out strike the Tories and Bi will not give the union any choice or way out. ine consequences o losing this struggle culdils.
will get the green light everywhere, the Tory anti-union laws will get endorsement, the Tories anti-union bashing will get a boost in the arm the members will be jobs POEU IOSU The POEU must fight back and in that fight they deserve and warrant the support . every othe trade unionist and mili tant.
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