executive, (RIP) done. A lot of women thought problems they should get a man's pay for legislation: doing women's work.
needed. Male chauvinist TES als should be sent to the kinder garten to learo the A B C's of liar hany in hard Fleeting vomen lett the AUEH PIETIES Recent figures show that chree quarters of women workers carn 1055 18 233. compared to a quater of male workers, Pieties of support for women's equalicy AUEW at the TUC were a complete farce since the Congress fight for a minimum wage of Eso women's TiC had voted to an increase in General Council. Judith Hunt women's organiser for the En gineering Union's section, explained: Only positive discrimination will provide adequate tepresentation for woremitled lo the male-dominatel General Council. and the other sordid realities of tract union chauvinim. it's noi ning to organise unions lo demand more participation and recognition.
That's why all women should support Women in the Unions, and the Trade Union Day ised by the Working Women's Charter.
case againsl dICatES 10 600 vice-presidential union members, Richardson, secretary of ILTA teachers.
certainly ofticrejected women no: MARK BUSHER White-collar Given these witbie activists the Rally on School organ action the coates them am Government The charges stem from ediTors' toere cases trail employ compulsory ranster to a London union and sell-our this move is a deliberate attemp to discredit them in the eyes of The charges are strike being brought by Tony Farsky, a member and intion represents 14,000 London Farsky and Ricardson made these disciplinary moves afler parents and teachers trom the firsthalfof1931.
Scab missiles next time? UNDER THE cical of 'nationai MEERANINE Government used the aigfonce to smanh through the air muffic assisrants picker line of West Dravion, near last Thursday militar The RAF tankers were taking i none of i TuRI tO supply the cision an military computors at Hearhrow The Government's claim that the TACT WON CARROT WETTE defences" wis dismissed by the can guarantee the and propnetors press freedomthrougha Charter.
As we go to press, the national exocutive of the journalists' union meets to decide the next s Untortunately for the NU1 rig wing, themediation formula doe not even cosmetically conceal the it seeks, and the union leadershipis expected to call for an urgently needed extension of the Representatives of all the NUJ chapels in the Westminster Press of which the strike-hit Northern Echo is part, already declared themselves in favour of phased escalation the ougbout the group's provincial papers. Westminster Presshas jus made the timely announcement of an 84 per deutprofit increase for the union as downright lies!
Cland Pan Services As sociation generul secretory Ken Thomas revealed that kis unio computor, Wed for te WIT the civilion one. The Chul Aviation Authority had rejected this offer and it was then - through an Government - that the RAF and there was an 80 per cent vote in lavour.
Oates told us that the effect of Huddersfield's solidarity action had been to encourage and boost the sirike in Bradlord wins: drivers voted stay cut indefinitely. will have to organise this on a West Yorkshire bess and hope fully haild up to a shop sewards This is vital because e West Yorkshire Passeng ransport executive has tried t The key remains to Leods drivers in the strike. It is MOL I CASE TOSS USE CULI sarage is a separace unit in Loeds and taere s less unity and more Hat a co-ardinared effort with workers going lo speak to the Leeds garages could help.
were brought in In spine of Thomas's anger a Wirin 24 hours the whion re demand for an immediare implementation of the rwo-year-old "phased' implementation.
A total of 19 trade union conferences debated policies to automatically defend wages this year. At the Transport and General Workers Union biennial ConCrete a moulfor automatic increases of one er cent for every one per cen ncrease in the cost of livine received over a third of the delegates" votes. This was the aime conference which deltatod Jack Jones's attempt to force a third round of pay down the throats or the dele The demand for compensation for the effects of inflation on take-home pay the sliding scale of wages has teen a nermanent leasure or the Trotskyist programme since tbe 1930s. It originated at that time The way wogus are won unoar simple: workers in the strongest Then It is up to the rest Di the workino class 10 keep up by comparing their with those received strongest and best paid. Tucked away at the end of the demands of the Ford workers, the miners, and the National Union of Public Employees are clauses which aim to automatically defend and maintain the value of wage increases against Inflation. Trade unionists in the distribution trades and the post office also passed resolutions at their conferences calling for settlements to be defended in the same way. STEVE POTTER explains why these demands are worrying the Labour Government and Britain's bosses.
Grew feature of capitam -a permanent tendency towards inRation.
The British working class has suffered the most rapid drop in its standard of living under this time since the beginning of the century. The anger of with incomes policy policed. by their leaders has spilled over into strikes like those at Leland. at Heathrow, and Port Talbot. These actions have run straight into road-blocks thrown un by the unson posses In collaboration with the employers and the Government.
ABOUT LIES strikes others like them did not gain all they have had their impact. No longer can the union leaders grantly impose rigid andemocratic TUC endorsemen of the 12 month wage settlements and their al to support the demand of a 50 minimum vin back the devastating fall in eal wages over the last two and a This is the meaning of the 'cost of living" cimuses. As presently inadequate. The dend the THOCOURIC.
National Union of Public Employees, THE CIRUS. 2 afler a certain level of inflation has been reached coa threshold experiment to try to hold down the level at T per cent.)
But why should workers suffer before ben cent pennie Without even starting to conside the powerful theoretical argu of people have drawn the con clusion that that is not the case as workers they bave watched pay fall as prices soar. For that reason, cos or Lvine asteemems must protes wages 100 per penny more or less.
The second weakness of such open ended policies is that they leave the determination of the exact extent or once increases ar the hands of the state and the and official Retail Price Index Experience of this problem i not new to workers in the rest o Europe. In Italy and Belgium the MOCICAL existing threshold ngreements by steep price rises. included in the "basket of goods on which average price rises are calculated.
class must draw up a cost living index reflecting the expenses of working class families. (For example, the proporto ho ine it underestimated by tion of families" incomes policy The claim of (clauses so that onl wages put gates, ers from women involved tending the principle not a The cash limits makes no provision the public sector adenuate. It ined to go round real Jessons being learnt. the trade unions themselves pro DUCTILE S CUSE DE BEERS BIGGE followed by the French must be taken to involve those mot directly organised at the - INSE and the unemployed ringing their practical experi arice of life. In doing so, through the creation of price committee beyond the links can be made against the divide and rule tactice WITH EVER BHI Dy LIC emplayers in dividing male worknot directly Never has the need for exof auto.
control over public spending for thi elects or mation. Wanes are held down, services cut and jobs lost By itself the sliding scale is nol Can Only defend what is pained. And what needs to be gained today is full recom pense for the loss in wages over the Tast two years. Than means across the-board wage increases but witnour causes ocrenoun such gains, the wbole defensive struggle begins again without percentage increase of 82.2 per cent, or 62 trigger poirls.
trigger paint did not give an adequate cover for a 1 per cent rise in the cast of living. (Indeed, it was not designed to do so.) They concluded that 60p trigger would have been the time to fully protect against the rate of Inflatio points at 60p would have meant an increase of 37.20 to cove Inerpeses in the cost of living from Oclober 1974 to June 1977 (From The Case for & Siding Scale of Wages) SOCIALIST CHALLENGE, 20 October. 1977 page 5