Tories -ne union reds Dorml out how all workers are now in the same boat because of Tory policies. vonev. includle regular donations, is promiscu.
is now back lo ine sid tion, where Anne-Marie and Christine start the back to Glasgow. tired but elated by the support they've received They pro muse to sec • us again tor the People's March and the Birmingham May Day rally. CIVIL servants are step up action on their 15 per cent pay claim.
Air traffic control assistants have voted for engineers have decided them. The leadership of the civil service unions is also under mounting pressure to call all-out strikes in the departments of health and social security.
VIV LACEY, Manchester regional secretary CPSA Employment, explains how the civil servants could win.
Civil servants are furious that as ordinary working people we should suffer pauperisation and that we shouldn't be able to fight for our living standards.
Civil service pay has been worked out retrospectively on the inflation rate, so we've fallen behind other workers, and now the 7 per cent offer is way behind inflation Thatcher is determined to hold down public sector pay. If she beats the civil sendits. LICU she'll go postal workers, town hall workers, and others who make up a substantial sectior of the trade union movement.
Other trades unionists should be givpassus practial unst no giving resolutions, assistance where it is at all possible.
In the dockyards, where the government sent in the Navy to complete ship repairs, industrial workers said that they wouldn't work under the direction of the That's exactly Ivavy response we want.
When Labour was in government it anxious to and strike-breaking tactics to back the deputy employment and Department of million quite fortnight giving Civil Service Unions.
the kind are being taken.
Dundee district council has a policy of had a very poor line on civil service pay disputes, so the Labour Party leadership has to recognise that all workers are entitled to a decent standard of living.
They should be condemning the of the Navy, orchestrated by the Ministry of Defence. Tony Benn, in his challenge for leadership, should say that strike breaking by the armed forces is unacceptable under any circumstances.
We need declarations of support for the strike from all levels of the Labour the half servants for the half-day strike over the Navy's scabbing is extremely encouraging. We need an escala tion where civil servants across the board are called out en bloc for an indetinite period, or perhaps for 10 days.
The views of the members have been adequately expressed countrywide. Alla mass meeling In Ivanenestel d ago, for example, a vote was taken on the strategv of all-out strike ac tion and there was a clear majority in Since then there have been calls from around the country for an all-out strike, but it's been shown on many previous occasions that the leadership doesn't really have the guts for a fight. We have to force a response from the Council of In Manchester we have meetings of activists from their in strategies ere they can argue their own strategies. need to forge a direct input into the coun cil nationally. That's where the decisions snub at the NUT's conference on the weekend.
ding orders to debate a motion which militant action over the cuts.
council workers. ference to secure the reinstatement of the six arms spending at a time of education cuts.
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