Challenge OCCUPATIONS don't stop for Xmas. Eight journalists spent the festive season on the sixth-floor of an office block in Central London; communicating world via a bucket-and-rope hoist. with the rest members fighting ¡cuun- book publishing division of Cance. •BPL , Britain's largest prinremained locked office for Xmas Scotch and radical literatur moisted up to tne sixin floor Council, and the NUJ propublishing dustry's profits are being hit and in resin and management's ; solution. speed-up.
It wants to sack nearly i quarter of the editorial staff is collarles. those left behind expected to Macaonac pick up most of their work: Unior been selected for redupdancy The NUJ chapel is unimDressed outne redundancies are the way to "However, management apright to by which means the 'Caback ..to:ennow damaging to lts *workforce The NUJ response.to • aliciol al a lock-out. wallen look place wnen the chapel contested the redundancy notices November • b holding meetings in working time . Ine occupation or one of the offices provides focus for chape when the management would • 11K C asintegrate subbort TOT the struggle has-come from BPC print book and. local trades council Fund Most of the 65 occupiers Nove mo been pough they November Although week receiving officia disputę pay 11 Vill the NUJ rely on sup port from the chapel's hardship fund, Contributions and messages of sur C Chapel I Book Branch, , 314 payable Educational NUJ chape!): Speakers are * The Camden Journal in North London is being shut down by management The eiger journalists on the newspaper very few local papers to sup: CI C handed notices ust deeremo i ne result is a sirike Dy NUJ members in the North which Gazette and - Hornsev Journal The editorial staff on the Camden Journal • regard managemerit's action retaliation for ancy unior disputes. Management claims that the weekly. Cl Culaton of of 7-8.000: is un profitable; yet for years it has done nothing to proA hundred local people attended a support meeting two days before xmas and' emer •Sel Save the Camden Journal Defenc Committee Michael Fool, a, loca resident, bern ure more une soon. SOrS demonstration and suppor c/o Labou Party dle Lane, London N8 SPECIAL OFEER tor new readers 6-month subscription £6.50, 12-months £12.50 Socialist
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