back UnOR the to protect lobs to strike ona mav The lead giver 'efficiencorelary oa wernic las nol occ cerr. wite nemmauy caled tor a full strike on 14 May he has now backed down and merely endorsed mne oes vue roboc. members have been stay at work. The strike has to be all out. 'IT's a sign of the times,' said one of the Prolverhampion Express and Star on the While other local papers have either settled with the NGA or ceased printing, the Express and Star is the only one being produced with Management has used its Wolverhampton monopoly and high profits to introduce some of the newest printing technology in the country. Up to now this has been done with NGA While the compositors are well paid and do a 372-hour week — one of the demands of the wiln no new By smashing the power of the print unions, Express and Star management could introduce even further automation which would need onTele-ad personnel have already been trained That the issue is one of union power can be members coming from far and wide - pickels.
The police have also realised the importance of the dispute and have tried to smash the pickets I ney are punea violenuy vans or they have their heads smashed against van doors. In the first week of the lock-out 36 people have been arrested.
But the picketing is having an effect. While the paper is being printed it is reduced to a photographs and reprints of old adverts.
Support for the NGA is growing. Soon after the lock-out 27 members of the National Union disobeying their union's directive not to work On Friday morning SLADE instructed its members not to cross the picket line. 'That night the Labour group on the local council passed a resolution to break off all relations with the ExAlec Bowater, the NGA father of the chapel on the paper, thinks the lockout will soon be over. He considers they will be going back vic and that the struggle technology and protection of jobs will then be HCOEHHOBLCI *IPC, the magazine giant, is among those hit by the NGA dispute. schedules disrupted, the company has cut its wage bill by locking-out 1,500 journalists.
The journalists had been working to rule UVCE resisting the lock-out. away from the dent day serious sued.
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