NALGO members on strike SDP Council. Camden NALGO E2000 to workers have refused to cross the picket lines. The SDP Council has responded by employing a scab firm, White Shield, to do the work instead.
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as monsters for taking strike action to save their jobs. The reponse of the kids at Islington council. few weeks have fully confirmed this view.
In just three months the SDP council has carried out a number of attacks on local working people. It has decided to sell off some 50 short-life l properties.
it nas cur grants anc allowances to voluntary 02alSau0ns altogether to fund the Islingion Area Youth Com. mittee and the Islington Action Group Unemployment, in an area unemployment. it is plan- CCHI ning further cuts in ser vices and redundancies of local government staff for 389e forthcoming year's It has also provoked a bitter the local government workers in an attempt to smash the union, NALGO. refused to honour the contract of of employees. When this KOD was Webb. clearly shown be illegal by the Council's own disciplinary hearing the SDP counshut down children's deliberately prolong the strike.
On 1 March they ever threw out ACAS backed compromise formula to end the dispute so that they could pursue their confrontation with the union.
Such reactionary atutudes are not so surpris ing when one recalls the history of the SDP councillors, before 25 of them defected from the Labour Party. Councillor Bill Bayliss was always notorious for his hostility to the unions and Labour Councils under his leadership infamous for their measly housing programmes.
Perhans the most against une donated the strike fund and Securico IT WILL be worth keeping an eye on the SDP's first council: it may be a foretaste of things to come nationally, said Socialist Challenge last December after the SDP had seized control of Dramatic events in the last notorious of the SDP's reCentees s neon 19 Michael O'Halloran MP, US ORIOL rigging and bogus delegates. It is no COUNCHOR base. The councillors had defected when they did try to ensure selection councillors by the local SDP, as most faced the CHOD ITORS the local The ballot-rigging past of these democrats has followed them into their new home. The Guardian reported on March that the national SDP is to set up an inquiry into allegations of impropriety in the recruitment of members in the Islington SDP.
Forms the national headquarters on 8 December last year application for membership forms. Coincidentally that was the final day for new members to qualify to vote in the Spret ballot to select the candidates local elections in May Head office refused to ratify the members voting rights and some 50 enraged local SDP members, again including many of the recent SDF councillor converts, have called for a special area meeting to enfranchise all local members.
have not the publication last week OF as Aims of Industr pamphlet by another SDP councillor, Roger Roswell, snappily entitled *Dealing with the Marxist threat to industry. In a fanfare of Rosewell announced that: *The acIn a letter to NALGO they wrote: 'It is Islington Council who are the monsters, not our staff. We want our staff back but only if all our homes can stay open. Thank you to everyone who has supported the The strikers have also leadership to deal with. NALGO executive appointed a subcommittee of three to oversee the dispute who decided not to pay the paltry f20 per week strike pay for the first two weeks of dispute. Fortunately last Friday's national Local Government Group meeting of NALGO overwhelmingly recommended to the executive to overtivity of extremists threatens the future of астостасу, of economic growth and the freedoms of working people Rosewell explains in great detail how the ev tremists know how to discredit and foreclose any alternatives to strike ac tion. . they believe in conflict. One might think he was talking about his SDF colleagues In Islington Council, but no. he was referring to "the Marxists' The local scab local paper. Islington Gazette.
turn this decision.
The executive biased' had the union satisfactory negotiated?
labour movement.
NLP students union, Highbury Barn, London N5. John Grant, SDP MP for Islington Central, raking some muck. itself currently blacked by the NUJ, the local unions and the Labour Party over en forced redundancies, echoed the themes Rosewell.
It has exposec agitators undermining th SDP council which the Is ington Gazette backs to the hilt Allies This ugly unionbashing crew has more have now enforced secret ballot on the dispute despite i per cent support for the strike.
ballot asks the strikers: On 1 basis of 20 a week strike pay are y prepared to continue strike action unti return to work has be The strike needs more support from ti Send resolutions a money to: Islington NALGO strike HQ, c Ladbroke Hous . One of members reponsible dealing with the Isling dispute is none other th In Mike Blick, a trade uni advisor and member of t SDP!
Ballot-riggers, Aims Industry, scab journ ana amon-basners: tna the Islington Soc Democratic Council a its allies. Remember ti TICA umic somcone t you they are fed up w extremists and support t "moderate' SDP
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The strikers have voted to stay out until all the members are guaranteed a job and the threat of closure against a children's
The media has had a field day. The Sun editorial described the residential workers
that he followed the defec- SDP to retain his political