The London divisional council of the National Union of DelE annual general meeting on 2 The meeting JULC voted AMANHOUS SUNSUL for the 22 June Labour Party demonstration against weapons In line with the decisions recent national conference, the divisional council agreed to organise a throughout the division on the 'Prospects for Britain' document submitted NUPE conference by the execute This document puts forward the Labour left's 'alternative economic strategy' The soniOn CO LEC economic crisis. Socialist division will be putting ward an alternative ment.
John Suddaby of Camden general branch was elected as the divisional chairperson A special NAC national planning meeting and a day school on positive takes place on 14-15 June Marble Arch Intensive English School. Star St, London W2.
The main discussion will 1o perpe or suade the government to mandate local authorities to provide oroner abortion facilities, so that women can have safe legal abortions close to her nome Both days start and finish at 5pm. NAC urges who is interested to everyone attend. campaign hopes for a big turn out. DESPITE attempts by women at the Chix's factory in Slough to continue their strike it has finally been brought to a close by full time General and Municipal Workers' Union officials.
Three weeks ago official support for the strike was ended following negotiations between The GMWU and Chix management.
But the 46 women and one man, who had ben out on strike for seven and half months over lossaulou deal as out coasted will unc workers would have been made redunAt a stormy and bitter mass meeting two weeks ago, wh smost cane l blows, GMWU official McMullen, was forced to give way to the demands of the women to continue the Asian strike until they got all their jobs back.
however McMullen came under pressure from a different quarter. Top union of ficials wanted the strike to end. They had Eary den matron ta ceded unior good enough for them.
Following bitration and Conciliation Advisory Service. McMullen told resume picketing while further negotiations At the next mass meeting MCMullen were was determined to bring things of 47 close. The only improvements was a from Chix that of the 28 workers to be made redundant 9 would be taken back sonie Gerry available and a £100 increase in redundancy money.
But by meeting After insisting VIC when Chix management had con- women. recognition and that was a meeting wiln ine Al• strikers not to won in half-baked promise when work offering more than half the workers their jobs back, McMullen had successfully divided them.
La.secret ballot 19 in favour of ending the strike. It had taken two weeks to force the deal on the Unlike the Grunwick strike, where there had been lots of discussions and debates on the strike committee, no such set up during the eightmonth Chix strike. Resistance to accep ting the "advice' of trade union officials was not as strong as it might have been.
The strike was not a total defeat however. The union has been recgonised and Asian women at Chix have shown workers on the massive Slouch industria estate, and all round the country, tha they are not going to be pushed around! y Raph de Santos and Kevin Holme JUPE South Branch, Edinburgh Hospital NURSES are now in the front line of the Tories assault on workers living standards. Ruthless cash limits of 14 per cent are being imposed in the public sector while inflation is roaring at 21.8 per cent.
For nurses this not only means an insulting pay offer, • dentists will try and force all wages down in the next winter par round. They already
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