Over 20,000 of the 28,000 workers are on strike.
On Monday, workers received a letter from the company threatening to cut the wage offer close plants if there was not an immediate return work. AUEW national official Ken Cure ran true to torm witn the statement that: 'A strike would not the offer, Lolove could lead to some concessions made on Friday being taken away.' AUEW members voted e, Drews Lane, but elsewhere the challe unions are standing firm, and picket lines are being repeated.
The company's main STRIKERS AT Austin Rover's Longbridge and Cowley plants resisted management's attempts to break the strike through threats and intimidation.
hope of breaking the strike now rests officials. The aim of the court action ш eI 1984 Trade Union Act is to get the strike called off by the union leaders.
Three of the nine unions have already backca on In te lace court action. The EETPU called on its members to return to work to allow a secret ballot to be held. At Longbridge, the electrireturned. held meeting promptly walked out again.
For the past five years the company has relied on officials like Grenville Hawley to sell out ever strike that has happened The threat of fines for contempt, and civil actions is intended to pressure the officials into once again acting against the members.
So far the TGWU has not responded to the court but policy is clearly opposed to complance with the anti-union legislation. Hawley and the executive must be tied to this policy The TGWI should follow the example of the NUM, and defy the legal attack the right strike. If the union is fined it has more than enough muscle to defeat the courts.
The first national dock strike proved that. This is the first major use of the 1984 Act, and it must be defeated. is a principled and correct one.
reluctantly agreed to allow on the pickets!
This situation is a allowed to continue.
Student Union possible.
The pickets and the try. workers in PNL. The stand of the students at PNI Yet the NUS Executive has voted down resoletions to back the struggle at PNL. They have refes ed to call mass pickets organised and built for bi NUS at the National level. In fact, they have oul , the legal facilities of NUS to be used to defend NUS members arrested disgrace and cannor be Resolutions of support fo the PNL actions should be passed through ever Weekly delegations messages of support should be sent to the picket December NUS Conference the NUS Executive should be made to pay for their scabbing role. followed up. it is the GLEs anti-racist year at te avenues which should be moment, and the GLC and ILEA should be called upon to support the stand of the PNL students.
But the main demand at the moment should be directed towards the NUS leadership to call aur organise a mass picket to stop Harrington going . Only this sort of response is capable of forcing the College Authorities to throw Harrington out It is the only way to force the Courts to back ofi from their threats to imprison students arrested on campaign go on and should be built in all the Colleges around the cour