OUR SHEFFIELD reporters inform us: Pickets were out in force on Monday and the strike is solid among the 350 manual workers in the area. At the Moonshine Lane Depot shop steward Chris Hague said wage is £82 for a 39 hour week and we do not works shifts and there is very little overtime here. have been pushing for national action for years in Sheffield.
LES HUCKFIELD, Labour MP for Nuneaton told us about water authority:
Severn and Trent Authority under the chairperson of Sir William Dugdale is notorious for penny titudes. 1 have to deal with the cases of pensioners who have been cut off after simply writing to ask if they could water bill on instalments or after a delay.
When the authority went over to direct billing by computer, it tied the hands of the local authorities been more sensitive about the problems of hard-up people, individual consumer.
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pay their Warwickshire of the Authority had often chair of the board. At Blackburn Meadows sewage works Phil Hurst the union secretary emphasised 'our action is aimed at the cutting of supplies to industry not the Other workers stressed that they were not worried about the threat to use They pointed out that the cratsmen were supporting them and the fire brigade had agreed not to 'But the biggest scandal is the spend the money.
September, six of them went on a junket to Switzerland at a cost of over £7,000. It was supposed to be an international water conference, which does not explain why all six of them Making money from water is not new to Sir William, a big landowner.
Shortly after he became chair Severn and Trent it bought large tracts of land off him. So he was selling his land, as a private individual, to himself as