SocialistAction 1983–88

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

Islington nursery workers' strike

· Socialist Action No. 57, 11 May 1984 · p. 11 of the scan · 283 words

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page 11 of the scan

ONE HUNDRED and fifty NALGO NUPE nursery workers have been on strike in the London Borough of Islington for nearly four weeks over a claim for improved pay and conditions which was submitted to the council last October.

nursery worker' strike committee (pers cap)

Despite manifesto commitment to wages and staff ratios for this group of Ah, the FORUM REPORT! An amazing document! An historic event! A load off y twaddle! workers, it has taken three LU get the council to negotiate.

The strike is being supported by parents who occupied the town hall for 48 hours last week, and by a large local Labour Party wards. Istington NALGO is discuss. tions series ofs daen aCtions taken negotiations are not sucBut the council seems determined to go down the same road as Lambeth and Southwark councils - %I tacking the workforce rather than uniting them to fight the Tories.

A PIECE OF THE ACTION Come now, lad, it's a bargain! A mere £IS!!. Essential reading for anyone interested in finding a solution to — To all this Murray and the TUC leadership had no Their strategy of collaborating with an anti-working class, right wing Labour government fell in disco denit in 1948-9. The discontent' in 1978-9. bankruptcy and treachery of the TUC leadership was fully exposed in the 1976 firefighters' the TUC left them to fight The real result of the social contract ing living standards - was the backcloth to the defeat of Labour in 1979 and the election of the Tories.

Test Despite the betrayals of the TUC membershir had tinued to grow during the 1970s, to a high point of 12 million in 1979. But the - INSOMNIA!

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