SocialistAction 1983–88

The paper of the Socialist League, formerly the International Marxist Group, 1983–88

Bury workers privatisation fight

Socialist Action No. 4, 8 April 1983 · p. 4 of the scan · 138 words

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THE UNIONS in Bury have massive campaign against the local council's privatisation plans.

The long standing dispute was brought to a nece when the council broke an agreement with the unions and an arbitration finding, and invited tenders for the refuse coilechon services The local authority workers responded by br-. inging the borough to a hal: with a one dav strike on 2 March. More than NALdO members and a ninety similiar proportion of the manual side supported the By D Greenhalgh, Bury NALGO strike call.

plans now in• CUde leaflets to show the extent of opposition from local people to the council's privatisation plans. unity of the unions and the support of ine local people can yet stop the Tories' plans! Alicticall take debilitated Europe.

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