Arthur Scargill leads the trade union contingent on 22 October CND demonstration potential for holding up, stopping and closing down the nuclear weapons industry. The labour movement, in conjunction with other social torces has a very impor tant role to play in CND. THE UNILATERAL high-handed announcement by the government senceforth there will be ship at the Cheltenham communication headquarters is a serious attack on BETTO E rights. It's part of a long process that started when the Tories took power in 1979 It can't have escaped their notice that public sector unions are becoming increasingly militant.
this attack in other key alcas. zas wulkcis. Walci . workers, civil servants in the Home Office. Gradually rights will be denied in any 'sensitive' government.
We must defend trade union rights for all workers, irrespective of where they're employed. It's important that the support Cheltenham workers But the trade union movement must realise how serious this attack is. Frankly, I was looking for a bit more than statements of intent from the council of civil service unions the TUC First the NGA, now this — when will the union leadership stand up?
The campaign to defend the GLC and local lemocrac within Lonlon is faring better. Th recent day of action saw 40,000 out - in very bad weather to support something the media telling popular.
Recent meetings I've held in Islington on the GLC, London Transport and the Inner London Education Authority have been packed. People are angry and determined. The tide has turned.
I don't think the London Transport Bill, which central government control over transport in the capital, is getting enough attention. I'm on the committee in parliament dealing with The minister Linda Chalker, has made Il clear sne envisages e London regional trans vort authority run on susiness lines.
Each bus and train route must run at a proof fit. That means thousands of miles of routes are at risk. More than in four ousworker. IOS.
win on this through a big campaign outside parliament, unionists public transport users. across that were not just We have to defending LT, we're del ending the right of the disabled for mobility within London peoples' right to cheap transport such as most other Western European capitals enjoy The disperate nature of all these campaigns has meant that more peo ple have been involved Now the demands of the campaigns must unified They are fundamentally the same government resources for inner • citv areas: a end to cutbacks slowdowns, closures anc redundancies public spending cuts The Tories will try to bring legislation to prevent the GLC elections being held next year. The people of London mus have a forum for express ing their point of view perhaps through on exactly the same day that . the GLC elections would have been held.