ON THURSDAY the council of civil service unions meets to consider the next steps in the civil service dispute.
the civil service. docks and the airports, Inland Revenue and the Ministry of Defence is certain to wreak havoc and hit the Tories where it hurts.
The response must be a call for an indefinate all-out strike. The CPSA (the largest of the nine unions involved) have been balloting the membership.
Although the response is mixed, the North-east, Scotland and the north ol England have recorded favour of strike action.
The fact is, we have no choice. The Tories are inent on smashing the civil service unions and we have to win this dispute. After the defeat at the hands of the miners the government is looking for some scalps.
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Cheques and POs payable to 'Socialist Challenge' There has never been an all out strike in But a strike that hits the was not to take on the big battalions' miners, the dockers the engineers.
Weaker Instead the government should contront the weaker sections of the trade union movement. Four groups were singled out: British Leyland, steel workers, the rail unions and the civil service.
The Tories have had this SORC SUCCESS strategy, but now need a big victory at a time when workers are feeling more Connachl.
The civil servants' dispute is no longer limited to this year's pay claim of per cent with a f10 underpinning minimum for lower grades. This is ween the government and published London N1 2XP. the whole union move ment.
We are ready to fight this battle to its bitter end. And it will get bitter. Picketing likely become ferocious as some the smaller representing management grades arop out Despite the Tories' 'Code of Practice' we intend to have at least 500 pickets outside the gates of our office at Newcastle In the last 15 weeks we have gone out of our wa not to hit claimants. But selective action has worKed and the CPSA membership is now ready LO ldy Wildl was always NUPE regarded as the "last card' We are sick and tired of the government's attitude towards the civil servants. We want an early end to this dispute and we want nothing less than the full claim. The member ship are ready to fight and we expect our leadership Conference Trades Executive (personal capacity)
factory jobs in the trade they have sold their jobs which aren't theirs to sell.
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evaluation of personalities but of policies.
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ASSEMBLE: 11 AM NATIONAL MUSEUM RALLY: 1.15 PM PONTANNA PARK Timber and Allied I HAVE just been made redundant from Schreibers in Manchester, along with all the stewards bar one. We'd won a number of battles against management. Last year we fought off a management attempt to close the whole We had a militant organisation on the shop floor. But a number of the key militants were not prepared to fight the present redundancies when most of them can still find They'd been on short-time working for months. They explained that they didn't want to keep on working for such an anti-union employer as Schreibers. What they failed to appreciate was that their getting out - even if they do find another job easily, which is likely - is that I am hoping that this type of problem can be taken up at the Socialist Challenge industrial conference. In my opinion the tasks of socialists is to map out the steps to get a government committed to the sort of socialist policies which can take the means of production out of A resolution supporting the candidature of Tony Benn for deputy leader of the Labour Party was adopted by the FTAT Executive Council in May, proposed by Phil Davies This is now to be sent to all branches for discussion and an ace will gooear. in mnewuv issue or the union tour nal, explaining that the decision was not based on an By Steve Pilley shop steward, Crafts, British MY family has always been Labour. But I only came across revolutionary ideas during the steel strike. Then I learned that the positions that people dismissed as being 'communist' were things that explained the real character The steel strike showed us the real character of the police and the Tory press and showed that underneath it all our society is still divided into classes, with the bosses When people tell me to go to Russia, I explain that that system is not what we are fighting for and explain the situation in Cuba as something much nearer to what I am In Rotherham, we have set up a CND group. We have a group based on the River Don plant. Many workers toparticularly the younger ones, are dead keen on - fighting Thatcher and the bomb and To be able to discuss and exchange ideas with many other militants in different industries and different parts
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