trade union movement.
warrants headlines.
Yet the London weekly muaoaane Time Out is a long way from bankruptcy, ot ether the political or commerical variety.
It turishes the capital with a radical appraisal of the police, the courts, local government, the welfare SLalc and much else besides. cultural coverage, if sometimes arcane, is a stimulant for developments in the arts and a boost to the audiences they need. A STRIKE at a radical magazine might not seem to have a great deal of relevance to the Most of the alternative publications which that radicalism is no deterrent to sales.
And if many of the magazine's readers (and staff) are now middle-aged mortgaged, Time Out's politics have developed a paunch which is reason enough to solidarity to the staff's battle.
w nat nes behind the strike is an unusual union agreement. Most significantly it provides for pay parity. The 64 staff below Hana-CHiCil deve whether a theatre critic or typesetter are on the same salary which is presently f8,700 a year.
Elliott wants to wave goodye to that. It doesn't take a genius to appreciate that wage differentials the norm in the newspaper and publishing world, well as British industry at large divide the workforce, which is exactTime Out's publisher has in mind. Time Out boss Tony Elliott trying to forget about the strike Labour GLC has offered other premises rent free.
One of the main activities is the production and distribution of their Court order 4 strike-sheet, Not. The cost of the 25,000 copies of the first weekly bulletin being met by revenue advertising. this.
The best news for the strikers last week was the decision of the national council of the NGA Time Out reaction 'Oh was, God, I'm half asleep.?
union solídarity did not take into account the fac that the NGA has initiated amalgamation the NUJ, which the union leaders are unlikely talks - WIEN want ditched through their failure to back the Time Out strike.
That NGA women typesetters are part of the magazine's federated dọn chapel, and enjoy pay and
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flourished in the heady days of the late 1960s and early '70s have since gone to the wall, and if yet another has run into trouble it hardly
- to hold firm on a boycott of When I relayed this inr-
mation to Tony Elliott, , his
There is a lot of truth in His appraisal of inter-