AT A mass meeting last Saturday, Coventry school meals assistants, caretakers in caretakers in to call off their tre wh kept 60,000 students away from schools for four weeks.
district committee backed un ov the Nure ones lo refer the dispute to arbitration and to return to work on the basis of the old hours and pay out, If ACAS's record is anything to go by, arbitration will not ensure that NUPE's members' hours and pay will be defended.
implementing Tory cuts the most effective weapon is strike action and not arbitration, The job of the Labour Party is to protect the services, working class people. paid. The Tories are dismantling the welfare state in order to provide money for tax hand. outs to the rich and increased spending on so-called "law and order and defence.
these measures root and branch. Our job is to massively increase the spending. tion and social services. If the Tories won't allow that they must be replaced by a Labour government that will promote the interests of Tories look after their own class.
Dave Nellist, prospective Labour Party parliamentory conoroute for coventry pout cast cleaners and employees' union, The meeting accepted the recommendation from the Many strikers condemned the return to work as a sellWhen councils directly attack local authority unions by Coventry's Labour-controlled council certainly didn't jobs and working conditions of and especially the low The labour movement exists to oppose on educaworking people with as much vigour as the Coventry Labour Council implements cuts Here are she Tories: Here 1. Increased charges: a further 25 per cent rise in th price of charge of E1 a week for home help. previously 80 per cent of the service was free; a 10 per cent increase in all day nursery charges; a new charge of 65p for mid-day meals ToT ne menay пелатаосо в ms списа uc charge of 23p u day on the physically handicapped for rates, double the figure for November 1979.
2. Cuts in services: free school meal withdrawn from infantes further cuts in nursery education following tho complete shutdown of one nursery; college departments to close; reduced expenditure on repair and maintenance of schools and books: 90 people to lose the meals or wheels service: 270 pcople to lose their home help: reduc ped; reduced refuse collection and street cleaning; essen 9. More iobe lost, annihilation of tobs in the parks and works teachers, leading to bigger class size: further cutbacks on education assistants; nearly 100 jobs lost in social serincluding home helps, Almost 200 jobs lost since 1978 in city engineers" depart bargain for the militant determination shown by NUPE and three colleges of further education throughout the dispute to fight the council's cuts in the Coventry Evening Telegraph to con them into accenting a bogus peace formula and threats to use contract cleaners and parents to get the pupils back to school strike before, target for cuts. further cuts on the way for council will have a battle on its hands again.
Labour councis which unions against the cuts will be drawn into further confrontanon with iner empiovees as ine room for manoeuvre through rate rises, increased charges and voluntary redundancies dries up.
imposes cuts on one of the most vulnerable sections of its workforce.
our conditions. Let them come and work in our kitchens. We need our be an easy target. It's not just our fight, but your fight.
decision was taken to go to arbitration.
wages from NUPE memhers 2. Pay the wages lost during this dispute Distrier Labour Party and the public services trade cuis in local authority spending.
produced had the Right 1o Work emblem boldly They actively opposed any fight into the Labour
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Photo: JOHN HARRIS Why should Labour Party members support NUPE?