T.U.C BETRAYED | IMGpapers 1980

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"WILL THEY BETRAY THE NHS?

the healthworkers Margaret Thatcher would feeling on top of the While the Metropolitan police are proving unreliable in their jobs, Thatcher's lads in the TUC have proven very effective in theirs.

ASLEF's Ray Buckton was right. His union could not meet the Tory offensive by itself. It needed the support of the official labour movement and, despite the solidarity of the train drivers, the blossoming suplickspittles in the TUC sold ASLEF out.

But more than ASLEF they sold out basic trade union principles: • the 8 hour day • the democratric right of train drivers to have a say in their own working tions • the defence of jobs while unemployment soars to unprecedented levels • the defence of the na. tionalised railway network, at a time when the Tories are selling off public serloud and clear, Rail, that they'll condi- alone. But defend dole queues grow.

Foot, Murray,

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