sLaus "Hand in hand with the Tory government and the British Rail Board, ASLEF Se forced scas suspend the strike leaving train drivers to fend for ourselves, as victims of flexible rosters.
The Board has had to back down and agree that the rosters will have to be negotiated. More imporlantly, agree that the negotiations will within framework of the McCarthy report, Decision 77 of the Railway Staff National Tribunal The Board has already complained how this decision gives them very little and that flexible these practically workable. Disruptions to Ronny Ogden, ASLEF, Manchester No.1 branch, secretary of Local Departmental Committee ARE absolutely lisgusted the rUC' position. They have sold us down the river hundred per cent. The this affects every working person The Finance and Genera: Purposes Committee must be taken to They have given away the democratic rights of trade unionists to strike.' Bill Taylor, ASLEF, Openshaw branch, branch officer 'I THINK we have been sold down the river by the TUC. I have not been a militant in and I show what a picket has to do.' Peter Gunn, ASLEF, Manchester No. 1 branch, secretary 'THE TUC Finance and General Purposes Committee has let us down.
have introduced Tories, and it's not even law yet. I'm speaking at against che meeting and I will be telling them that it's not only in the that this is taking place, but in the unions as well. And it's against the interests of all working people.
Gwyn Hyde, ASLEF, Cardiff, branch secretary •THE TUC pulled the plug out on us. We've not been beaten by the government, nor Dy Board, but by the We looked to the TUC for