IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

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Socialist Challenge No. 254, 16 July 1982 · p. 5 of the scan · 246 words

The scan: sc-no254.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 5 of the scan

your cash your Labour Parti ano sheets for the Hardship Fund immedalery.

money issues at stake to workers and their families.

ord Station Picketing at Stratford to this effect. But will they union it ney are treatendisciplinary action?

Acton and Ealing NUR passed The ConTUSIOn which NUR railworkers are faced with:

branch the NUR NEC instruct the membersnip Dossioe not co Unscheduled scabbshuttle further reqi NEC to instruct officials circulate conccuon sneers to the membership for the ASLEF hardship fund' OUR STRIKE has been 100 per Western Region cent solle. there are Tne 3,296 members of ASLEF and not one of them crossed the picket line. Only a Tew trains nave moved the Bristol area and hey've moved them the picket and Lne owners wen Throven ine raroles the many side entrances hroughout the depo VUR driver depot, ci, neve snown us suobort. yet even inrouar their own strike last week Transport ing around £6m a day!

What it's all about THIS is what BR would save by introduc ing 7 to 9 hour flexible rostering for foot plate staff: • 1982 £0.42m • 1983 E1.7m • 1984 £3.2m • 1985 £3.8m And by pro. voking this strike by ASLEF they are los • ASLE's record on productivity is nothing to be ashamed of. Footplate staff have suffered heavier job losses than BR workers as a whole. Between 1950 and 1981 the number of railworkers was reduc

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