4.6 percent offer.
argument with of throwing workers into the fray.
tricity supply industry last week, water supplies at Shelton Grange in Northumberland.
power of the movement was flexed.
full blooded socialist alternative to Thatcher.
no bottle.
increase workers policies.
are clear. GAS WORKERS are threatening to join the water workers in strike action in response to the 4.5 percent offer made by management Power workers have similarly rejected a 3.6 to John Edmonds, national energy officer of the General Municipal and Boilermakers warned the government that it was 'backing itself utilities'. But despite such talk, it is clear that the union leadership is hoping to come in on the backs of the water workers action instead the weight of gas and power Rank and file pressure is clearly intense. however. At a London meeting of the regional representatives of the four unions in the elecplans were announced to prevent the use of alternative power stations suffering from the effects of the strike. As a result two power stations are now affected, at Blyth and This strike could be won in a flash if the Yet the TUC leadership continue their shadowy existence. Their argument - that strikers undermine electoral support for Labour - only has substance because of their failure to chart a With a clear cut alternative to Thatcher's mayhem, the water strike, and other union ac tion, can only boost the confidence of the faint hearts and waiverers in the movement who are ducking because they feel their leadership has A defeat for the waterworkers will more or less set the seal on Labour's electoral chances. A victory for the waterworkers will massively receptivity to socialist Joint action of all utility workers could bring the government down. The choices