14 OCTOBER 1976 PAY WEEKLY No 170 THE TRICO STRIKE came of age this week. But after 21 weeks on the picket line, the 500 women and men strikers have still not achieved their aim of equal pay a goal denied them by a so-called equal pay tribunal and ruled out of court by the Labour Government's pay However, the bosses and the Government aren't the Only this week has the Southall District Committee of the Amalgacontinue to fall.
CHRIS DAVIES (Report)
- the only way to make the black effective. 'They are arguing that it is a right wing EC and you won't have a hop in hell of getting it through, only effect of trying would be to de moralise the strikers! They also use code. the argument that involved, but what they are we don't only quite know.
*The Transport & General Workers Union has not been approached officially by Butler or the Divisional Price 10p When he stood up in the House of Commons on Monday, Denis Healey said two notable things. The first was that 'the social contract remains central to our policy'. The second, that living standards will It seems a long time since the Labour leadership promised the trade unions bountiful rewards in return for their compliance in the wage cut policies of the social contract. Increases in public spending, 'Realistically, so the legal reasons are *Non-involvement major problem.
paign NOEL living standards of their members.
National Health Service.
cuts, their lives as well.
and the hospitals will remain closed. contract.
the cuts planned for 17 November. source of income is the strike fund we need to give every striker at least another E5-E10 on top of their strike pay, but the amount of money coming into the strike fund averages £2,000 a week when we need at least 24,000.
another Due to the trade union inexperience of the workforce and the failure of the District Committee and strike committee to camSTOC MES involvement and explain all the issues involved in the claim, around three quarters of the strikers only turn up get their strike pay. We need everyone involved in picketing and despite the problems the We've got the demo now which our supporters car help turn into a massive show strength. Resolutions supporting the demonstration should be rushed to along with Back our demand Resolutions of support, funds etc. to:
Committee, AEU both District Secretary Roger bu investment in industry, a coming boom - these were the carrots dangled. That fraud has had a very limited life span. Healey now admits that the trade union leaders bargained for nothing but a fall in the With one hand he cuts wages. Now he has introduced yet another 'squeeze' which threatens to push unemployment to the two million mark.
With the other hand Healey presides over massive cuts in public expenditure, hitting at the gains the working class has fought for and won over thirty years - improved education, social benefits, the Healey is both taking money from the working class and, through their Already 52 hospitals in London are threatened with partial or total closure. Already, according to the National and Local Government Officers Association, there are 10,000 vacancies in the NHS The cuts mean these vacancies will stay unfilled, And there is yet more to come. Even the ruling class press admitted last week that even more severe cuts are on the way, and that the squeeze is only the start of Healey's latest version of the 'social But as the cliche goes, you cannot fool all of the people all of the time. Resistance is growing. Union leaders in the public services — feeling the pressure of their membership — are being forced to give at least token support for the Day of Action against That Day of Action is a start, but only a start. Healey is now fighting for capitalism with the gloves off. Working class militants must do the same: build for 17 November and after; support any resistance against the social contract; take the class war into the Labour Party itself, directing it against Healey and all his cohorts up and down the country.
The over-riding need is for a fighting alliance of all those prepared to resist. The time is now. OF