NUR workers unite to fight job loss

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LONDON Transport workers face a renewed attack on two fronts after the setback of the fares farce. Following the doubling of fares last March the iron logic of Tory policy has resulted in passenger traffic slumping and transport workers being asked to pay the price in job cuts and a pay offer under half the current level of inflation.

The only Union of Railwaymen Transport to join with NUR members in British Rail for an all out strike.

The bosses now say that 240,000 fewer passengers are using the tubes every day, a drop of This is 20,000 more than 12 per Weill. since March. was predicted.

On the original estimate they proposed 500 jobs to go trom train crews alone. Now its certain that LT is planning to shut down seven tube stations with cuts in booking answer to this is for National • members in London In addition they want to: • cut train services from Monday 21 June • cut bus mileage, some sections of bus routes and bus maintenance staff Bus cuts will put 2,707 bus crew workers on ne dole, take 850 busses off the road and lose over 600 jobs response to this the In response to this transport union, TGWU. is planning lohtning two hour bus strikes probably to lake blace inunc cvellite rush hours. The Nationa Union of Railwaymen mass meeting being. held Ull June to discuss ' wages and economies' is a big step forward. ne union leaders are al last linking the issues.

management is developing policies line those of the Tories. These involve: • wrenching LT from the control the democratically elected GLC • using cash limits cripple the service it offers • destroving the LT monopoly by opening the doors to private cowbovs to operate 'express-type' services None of this is possible without smashing union resistance. To do this the Labour GLC has appointed very own Michael Edwardes to LT His name Keith Bright and his main claim to fame is stripping over 2000 jobs out of Huntley Palmer Foods. Bonuses London Transport workers are being asked to make sacrifices to keep LT afloat and keep their jobs "secure LT's Dersonnel manager John Cameron Soclicu i cally. "The clear message at all pay hegullalluis... is that co-operation in reducing Both British Rail and London Transport

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