CPSA leaders reject strike call | IMGpapers 1976

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The leadership of the Civil and Public Services Association has rejected the call for a one-day strike on 17 November.

Red Weekly predicted on 14 October that the union's National Executive Committee would attempt to back down on the 3 September resolution which stated that *an all members one day strike should be considered in conjunction with public sector unions .... to coincide with the 17 November lobby of Parliament' A CPSA circular dated 26 October explains that after consultation with other public sector trade and after overtime ban.

The joint CPSA/Society of Civil and Public Servants rallies referred to in the circular were a travesty of union democIney were me chosen mechanish for the bureaucrats' sell-out.

Most branch and office officials and the mass of the membership were not even other told about these rallies, notification was mainly unrougn the burcaucracy grape vine. Even so, only some of these bodies gave the NEC a mandate to call off the STrIKe aCLOn Workers are advised that 'the full

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