La 40-hour week, which amounts to 20.75 per cent.
sympathy than any other sector of the working class.
avoid a strike and concoct some deal with the The best way to WIn every town deciding on maintained. That is the lesson workers do not lag behind.
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Fi Challenge 1 February 1979 page 2 AS THE lorry drivers' strike approaches its end it looks as if they have won some substantial gains. They were demanding £65 and a 35-hour week. An independent tribunal has awarded them £64 and The award will be regarded by lorry drivers as a victory. It will provide further impetus to the public sector workers who, even according to the National Opinion Poll, have more public Callaghan knows that a clash with the public sector workers will ensure the defeat of the government at the polls. His last-minute attempt to call in the TUC leaders is a blatant pre-election ploy. The thinking is as follows: make concessions to the public sector to The only problem is that this might not work. The public sector workers are in an angry mood. The hysteria unleashed by the press barons will only make them more determined. They should not, in any event, expect anything from the TUC-government talks.
their demands is to embark on g co-ordinated national strike now, with elected strike committees in the essential services that should be of the lorry drivers' strike.
Callaghan has understood it and it is important that public sector