6 MAY VOTE LABOUR fund no Fort it COMSE demands a better dod for ALL k A FAIR IS ALL WE NEED sith S „mistered as я newsnaner with the Post Office Printed By East End Offset (TU) Ltd, London E2. Pulished by Cardinal Enterorises. •0 lox .!. London N1 By Tessa van Gelderen true, been sent of cost terms.
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pay is appalling.
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while hospital were taking country to But the this day of 'explanation' be gauged trom the maoing available entitled: booklet which 'Put your employer on the spot. The TÙC is to try to win the support mobilising ship for tion.
Yet, as the proached its third reading, Tebbit has announced a significant tightening in its provisions under pressure the organisations.
New clauses have been introduced make it even easier to sack strikers Bill demanded that notice to return they could be sacked. Tebbit has now changed this section to allow strikers to be sacked without notice.
In addition, Bill had demanded that all strikers be treated equally, the employers discriminate choose. This will be a blow to the unity which is essential to an effective action TORY BRITAIN showed its treet The task force this colours this to the South Atlantic with 'no estimation although it. rumoured to be at around f1bn. Thatcher's concern is the 'success of the operashe claims, can't be measured in cash when it comes saving lives, putting much needed money into a rundown and decrepit health Tories claim there is no money. Hospital are being offered from between 6.4 to under 4 per cent - the lowest paid to receive less in an effort to Their present levels of real A state enrolled nurse receives £337 a month before deductions.
assistant takes for a 40-hour But all is not gloomy on the wages front. Last week.
workers to industrial action in support of their 12 THE TUC has declared 10 June as 'union day'. It is urging trade union activists up and down the distribute leaflets meaning of the Tebbit anti-union laws.
character of they approach bosses rather than memberdetermined acBill which will • strıker: to work before where the tions into work can now leagues. they will now workers taking per cent claim, a Mr wardes received a small pay rise of 46 per cent to a mere £95,500 And he didn't even have to go on strike to get All he had to do was sack 80,000 car workers in British Leyland. Of course, it must be remembered that poor Edwardes will be leaving BL before the end of the year. The massive wage increase will enable him receive a massive handshake, estimated to be in excess of a quarter of a million pounds. Nice going for some.
In the meantime, hospital workers are left to struggle alone. taken this week was a good response given the lack of a lead from the leaders. Hospitals disrupted as members the Confederation of Health Service Employees part in two-nour Mass meetings were held in many hospitals and COHSE members are now refusing look after private patients.
Public sympathy is with bans. explaining the tie salute by intimidating some secreturning without their colThe threat of sackings ensure asO • extend solidarity possible Ed- them, until they dustrial labour make it clear:
lives are the As and now the people are because to golden because waiting lists and so on.
Yes, this Action shown the union were will the of the losers. took The labour strikes. has to vices.
mand, so be it. a strike, such as overtime he determinatior of the Tories to get the Bill on books sharp contrast to the waitand-see line of the TUC. They will be imposing guillotine in parliament to that the Bill becomes law as soon Then it will be rushed through the final take inaction. But the movement has to the people responsible for the loss of Tories. They have allowed the health service to be cut to the bone.
they spend millions pounds on armaments, task force, literally dying aren't there enough kidney machines, there are for beds hospitals are closed down And 4 million doesn't improve the nation's health.
week has world exactly Thatcher's priority lies. As her popularity appears to be increasing, so it nurses and hospital porters who will be movement demand that the government pay the 12 per cent, without cuts in serAnd if other trade unionists have to defy Tebbit in support of that de procedures and probably be on the statute books by Juilt.
The TUC are waiting to see what develops, intending to use the courts to fight the law and relying There is so prospect s deteating the Bill this way.
If employers are sullic Wild the Bill this is solely as a result of the possible reaction of the unions to any attempt to implement it: provisions.
But the more the TUC plays down the use of industrial muscle, the more likely it is that the bosses will be strengthened their endeavour And Tebbit is by no means finished. The government already preparing further legisla tion which will make secre compulsory will attack the political levy to the Labour Party introducing contracting-in rather than the present contracting-out system should be campaigning to turn the 10 June 'union day' into a day of strike action the first 'unlawful' action the Bill's provisions.
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