35-hour week.
circles about the dispute.
*If you reject the McCarthy proposals: the Tan, some will sco it as a direct challenge to the democratica ly clected government So apparently the fight for the 35-hour week has now been transformed into death strugale with the Labour Government.
This government if theoretically committed to a 35-hour week for manual workers. Yet in the case of the Post Office has backed the proposals from Lord Nic Carthy for a 37V working an increase Д50000Y3L3LETTER Having put the stakes to high, the regional directors goes on to promise an increasing manageresistance engineers action I ask you to return to normal work Immediately" is the plea. (Horsham POEU] reports, if also offered a rare Insight into the increasing concern being felt in ruling But behind this 'request" there ina not-so-veiled threat that the Post Office intends to send many more engineers home if they don't capitulate.
SURVEY Within the last however, the engineers them selves have shown that muc have the determination to more Ian match ar Puse by management.
OnT August, Tyburn branch of the POEU announced the results of a survey of union branches concerning willingness to maintain the work-to-rule.
The idea for the survey came after the union executive had called off the ratoBa achOO the because the branches allegedly didn tsunbort it Tyburt bran the trion and the every branch in the union came up with some remarkable results. By working out how many members were in each LEADERS of the Post Office Engineering Union have ALLE their Tavour of the national action with only 9,289 against.
Faced with this information. and an aggressive lobby of the union executive last Wednes day, the leadership retreated. They agreed to re-impose the national action, which is now PO engineers march in London last Friday branch, they discovered that | taking the form of a work to 72,649 union members were in rule plus overtime ban:
which the It is this trend which makes | They were 100 complex and subject to costly error.
36 HOUR NO Under pressure they also agreed to call a meeting of the involved. union regional councils local delegates would be asked lo sugpest ways of increasing the pressure on the Post Office. AATIA
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