For the council?
That will be decided within the Labour Group the council meeeting this week. unions meanwhile pressing with the crucial job of organising to make that fight a reality.
A clear opening to scab on the defence of jobs and services is available to sou colacos. document from the direcLOIS makes clear. It purports to outline various ways of saving money, and implies that Hackney council could set a rate and get by without major cuts.
shop stewards committee in Hackey, home document that document represents a thinly disguised attack on jobs and serVICs.
are sull demanding that the council refuse to comply with the High Court instruction to set a legal rate. It must oreak une law as tne Only way. to defend jobs and services.
Questions remain: who leaked the document? Were chief officers Councillors involved? THE FIGHT is still on in Hackney! That was the message from the council unions last week. The question is: who will they be fighting — The Tories The media saw the document betore the main council leaders, Not its release was not accidental. It came as the council, prevented by the court from borrowing, warned that money War running out quicker than expected.
As the prospect of no pay loomed, welic preparing their members for the first round of the battle with the government. The leaks caused a lot of confusion.
Hackney NALGO (personal capacity)
Last week's events illustrate serious inadequacies in the council's approach. It talks of confrontation struggle - restricting its campaign to the courts, the council chamber,: niltooares SOSS leaflets. It failed to lear from the class struggle methods used by Arthur Scargill and the NUM.
Alongside the unions it could have organised and regular and frequent visits workplace both Hilda Kean, Leader Hackney Council outside the council, and to organised Not the working in Hackney. In this way the campaign would based on working Coulici workforce that understood the issues, and was willing to act to defend jobs and services.