THE FIGHT of the NGA against Eddie Shah and the Fleet Street bosses is the biggest challenge yet to the Thatcher government. A powerful union, with the mass support to win, is in head on controntation with the Tories.
Make no mistake. The NGA can win this struglockout the If the backed by the union movement it will blow a hole right LITOUSI the Tebbit antilaws right through the Thatcher government.
Solidarity If the NGA does not win will solely because solidarity sabotaged by the TUC and the trade union right wing.
Thatcher has tried to pick off unions OlIC by one in industries wracked bv redundancy such as steel. Or she has relied the TUC to savolage traue tion - as with the ASLEF strike. Thatcher has hammered low-paid public sec tor workers like those in health.
But now the government faces a head on fight with a union whose leadership has given clear decisive lead. If the TUC had acted like the NGA and made it clear no fines will be paid and that mass pickeung for union rigats there would ored been then there lebbit laws in place.
The Thatcher governdown in this dispute. If or turned up to pay the *anonymous benefacfines everyone would recognise Tories: Either defeat for Tories. the NGA will sto the Tebbis laus, devastating DIoW government, or the trade union movement will suffer an enormous The decision blishers the Newspaper SUCCLOI NGA for the strikes provoked by the courts is and simov an at. tempt to crush the union If it succeeds every Britain will be threatened.
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