Joumalists' claim JOURNALISTS on provincial and local newspapers began a campaign of industrial action on Monday to fight low pay, writes LANDAU, member of the NUJ's North London branch.
The NUJ claim-f20 a week across the board—is to bring provincial journalists nearer to the national average wage.
Until last week the only offer from the Newspaper Society the employers' association for the industry was five per cent, a mere £2 to £3 a week before tax on senior reporters pay 0r 200-/U.
It works out even less for who start on 139.
Then the bosses came out with a dishing out a nine per cent deal trainees the least.
The four-to-one vote action by NUJ members promises that provincial journalists are determined to pull themselves out of the low-paid bracket and confront the Government's five per cent.
Gamers action THE DAY of action in support of the long-running Garners strike for union recognition is on Friday 8 December, not on the Saturday as previously reported.
Pickets of Garners restauTans WiTUR midnight and be co-ordinated from the Havmarket branch.
Trades council members should especially ensure that delegations come from their local affiliates as the day action is jointly called by the Greater London Association of Trades Councils and the strike committee.
Social Workers SOCIAL WORKERS in over ten boroughs throughout the presently taking COUBLEY some form of industrial action over regrading claims, writes BURN of Islington NALGO.
campaign followed a decision of the NALGO conterence last year. which demanded that social workers Cone off the restrictive national gradings and negotiate their employers, But the problems involved in the present campaign have been illustrated graphically neurosis about their profits. There is doubting militancy of the delegates from the Bakers Union who met at a national conference mingham on Saturday. for ACTION The vote to continue inc strike for a £10 a week increase received unanimous support.
The delegates called flying pickets to stop the flour mills which are still supplying Ine wo mam companics unt of local Bine THE BREAD BARONS are beginning to squeal. With the decision of the Bakers Union last weekend to organise pickets of the flour mills, two giant firms of the bread industry are now showing distinct signs of the strike aimed HOVIS Me OURal ang ASSO ciated British Foods—as well as In Віг- supplying companies which have stepped up incur bread producuon.
The conference also voted to expel 2,000 refused to join the 20.000 on strike. for expelled have agreed to rejoin the union.
Protesters resist an excavator working on the Torness site of Britain's next nuclear power station. The demonstrators had at-Rank "independent members who favourite Already 400 of those ture description.
While the maintainee some 'Crumbling'-Fleet Street's | with managers and scab labour FRIENDS lend a hand on the picket line at Walthamstow.
WOre for strike-is a decidedly premaSATEK NE big two have DrOGUCHIOn previously occupied the site, were removed last week, and have now returned to prevent work going ahead.
rolls slowly that their lucrative markets are The two companies lost 5 per cent of their market share as a result of the bread workers' "scab' have vital. strike a year ago, and with the "independents' stepping in once BIOHILS will battering In many areas bread is in very limited supply, and generally only white unsliced loaves are available. Such items as bread% and CEUTICLE have virtually disappeared.
SOLIDARITY Solidarity with the strike is building -UD Nottingham, for example, the trades council agreed last week to call for mass pickets of the Turners Sunblest bakery every Monday and Fader or Production and delivery bread is still being undertaken by members of the white-collar union ASTMS and the Transport Union the callo general secretary Len Murray for trade unionists to reuse to nandic bread produced by companies wnieh nave orrerca as per cell pay increase needs to be backed leaders.
This is not just a fight about pay. The Bakers Federation has made it plain that it's out to wreck the Bakers Union, and the bosses have torn up the closed shop union agreement to emphasise their point.
SUPPORT With the bosses, the police, and the press lined up against them, the bread workers will the greatest difficulty winning on their own.
That's why support on the picket lines from every trades council Lane branches preparing to take on the Government's pay policy is If the bread strike is lost, the Labour leaders and the emplovers will be that muci more confident about taking on all those workers who don't happen to have the industrial muscle of those at Ford. of equipment will leave