A ONE DAY national strike of social security personel has been called for next Friday. It has been caused beause the staff are fed up with over-work and under-staffing at a time when the workioad, due to the increase in unemployment. is going through the roof.
The dispute started at the Erdington dole office in Birmingham 10 weeks ago. A young woman staff mamber burst into tears because of pressure of work. One more office has been called out each week in Bir. mingham until the stoppage has bean made total.
The management of the area, no doubt under government pressure, offered extra staff on a temporary basis only and in return have demanded concessions on working conditions.
Despite the drawn out nature of this dispute the dole staff has refused to knuckle under. At a mass meeting last week they threw out a revised offer by a massive majority.
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It's time the left leaders of the - and in particular president sections of the labour ment. The dole unions should reach out to other sections of the labour movement. Most important, the couC0 Oile ace unione non the CPSA and the SCPS -must make clear that the kind of dithering which the health unions' leaderships have shown will not be NSE)
200.00 3.00 5.00 178.50 SO.Ul E10,236.91 £16,000 workers within these policies is possible - least of all with the ridiculous suggestion of a 'special buying agency".
The central task of the union leadership 1S show how militant resistance to these closures can be continucd into a fight for a government which plans for the expan sion of the economy and breaks decisiely with the profit motivated system on the Tories rest, Without that JOb massacre on a truly mammoth scale will he pushed through, including the closure of two large plants.
• More steel coverage on pages 4 and 5.
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FUND DRIVE '82 A letter from a pensioner
Kevin Roddy, a supporter of Militant Secondly the positive feature of the health dispute was the appeal to
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