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Model resolution THIS branch pledges its full support to the strike against closure by workers at the Staffa plant in East London ment it government s aecon to eve ine wam or browne and Sharpe a £4m grant to move to Plymouth We resolve to give material support to the workers in the following ways:
1) To send a donation/collection for the strike fund particular the mass meetings on Monday mornings.
4) To demand that our MP trade union ducts.
book, its products are in celand protits TOT the gosses no me with a the wing problem of unemploye To ask a speaker to the branch or general committee sponsor th elocation grant ana oin the appeal for a national embargo on Staffa projustification for allowing 400 workers to be llowil on the scrapheap.
Support youths' demands for jobs, education, training and a voice.
The issues raised by the Staffa beyond any local borders, well as do those raised by the Laurence Scott strike in Manchester.
Both struggles are the vanguard against Tory job-killing, unon-bashing The LSE dispute has also had to contend with the AUEW national leadership withdrawing official support which has meant no strike pay, and strikers to spread picketing has also been hindered So far strike pay has still not been given to the AUEW members at Staffa and no moves on a national level appear to have been made to help the ASTMS wOrKers The record of the AUEW leaders, Boyd and Duffy, LSE and at gives a warning for the future.
Send all messages of sup port, dos sand tran Chris Newson, Strike Committee. 39 Somers Road, Walthamstow E17, Tel 01-539 0886. Public sector workers taking massive strike action in Coventry have brought normal school working to a halt.
The 4,000 strikers mainly caretakers and school meals staff members of the public sector workers union NUPE. They are protesting about the local council's decision to make spending cuts to the • tune or £2m, education bearing the brunt.
The council proposes, among other things, to cut the of ancillary workers in education by 10 per cent, to chop the holl day period retainer fee half. and to increase • the price of school meals to try's Labour-controlled council was taken atter a local referendum produced a seven-to-one majority in favour of spending cuts rather than a big rates in crcast Talks As we go to press, the council is adamant that it will stand by its decision to make cuts, prepared to talk to NUPE about 'the ways in which savings can be made.' In a press sa ventry stands said: 'Coventry stands lo lose large amount. • U. government grants unless NUPE hove Late. equally firm secretary of the Coventry branch has estimated that the proposed cuts will mean 12.5 per cent reduction in wages. The strikers refuse have talks with the council unti sent out changing their conditions i rick dil withdrawn Only 25 per cent of the electorate in Coventry participated in the council's referendum, which was held in August. Coventry's working people, already suffering mass unemployment, were clearly keen to choose by which particular methoc the Tory government's pound of flesh was to be exacted by their Labour council. SUBSCRIBE TO
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