THE Coventry public employees NUPE, which is in its fourth week of strike action against cuts. reached a critical stage as talks with the local Labour Council November with ver agreement reach ed.
The council is determined to continue with its programme of in wages and conditions which claims sanctioned by a referen. dum in August.
The proposal from the transport workers on the proposal and plead ed with conference to re ject it so that the NEC could go away and think The resolution was defeated, gaining 41,964 votes for to 87,100 against.
Conference was split down the middle by the NEC'S defence of their OWn bureaucratic scheme and refusal to countenance any alternative. In the end, they called on the worst elitist prejudices of the delegates to defcat the proposal for union for a Day of Strike Action to held on Thursday December has been supported by the local branch of the National Union Teachers but other teachers' - unions and the local government workers' union, NALGO has rejected this feared that union officials may use this lack of support as an excuse to backtrack on the Day of Action. Support NUPE strikers hardship Jund c/o Jo NUPE Southfields an industrial union and it must be said that they succeeded.
But there is a majority for change and the threa of modernisation and the Tories' attacks urgently press the need to turn that majority into action.
The POEU Broad Left is now planning to contact the broad lefts in both tho CPSA P&T Group UCW to look at ways 1o fight for real unity and for the fightback against niving-off proposals of the Tories Telecom Act of Railworkers at Paddington greet Jobs Express
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