IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

Liverpool typists-... an agreement in sight

· Socialist Challenge No. 223, 26 November 1981 · pp. 14-15 of the scan · 679 words

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On Monday November, an agreement was reached between the Liberal leader of the city counci. Trevor Jones and the typists" strike committee.

The Tory councillors ane agreement ond have the agreement and called for the sacking of all the strikers. They are accusing the Liberals of giving in and have condemnthe agreement as 'charade" since it amounts to arbitration.

They have called for a special meeting of the city council to try and throw out the proposals.

The agreement, which is backed by the Labour group, provides tor the 18 weeks on strike, Liverpool City setting up of a Joint Committee with an independent chairperson. The committee will consist of three persons nominated RALOO, three by the city strikers' WHIOH, council and a chairperson sclected 1TO1 HOTECO which the arbitration service, ACAS, will provide The chairperson will have to be acceptable to both sides.

The typists will present their case to the committee who will mediate between both sides. In the event of a failure to negotiate a sctuement, Ine chairper son will make the final decision. The committee is to take no more than eight weeks to make its decisions. the grounds that there should work while the committee The strike committee had alrcady rejected this idea. They suspected that the city council would not committee's decisions and have in sisted therefore, as part of the agreement that the findings should be binding. This has now been agreed so there is littie point in staging a strike while it meets.

The typists and machine •operators will stay on strike, however until the composition of the committee is agreed and they have voted .to escalate industrial action should the city council drag its feet.

Vice-chairperson Liverpool NALGO rights of working parents, job sharing, feminist pracLocal™ working branches working branches and the Women's TUC.

The conference, as well as allowing a vital exchange of experience, was able to develop proposals which could be fed back fo further discussion in the branches.

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The workshop on the Women's proposed that the next light in the union should be to toear le TOI the -70 remove constraints the Women's which stop it trom being an ettec tive body.

This is vital because in NALGO many people have argued against affiliation on the basis that the Women's does not have any real power.

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