they'd have to pay rent on their free flats if they were on strike. rest sitting back depending on us. but they want to sit back and let us do the work for them. GEORGE TOMS, refuse collector: 11 was surprised at the vote at the mass meeting, There were a lot of people who didn't want to come out; people like caretakers on the estates, who were worried that •But we have to pay rent all the time. We've already been out for over a week, and we don't want the 'It's solid at my depot for the all-out strike. That's what the NUPE executive should be calling for, and get our full pay, or we don't do any emergency cover at all — a threat bound to hold helps, vidually collective acting steward for the home helps. This afternoon the home helps will be at a mass meeting discuss emergency cover they should provide. only recently unionised and working indiwithout developing Will prove an obstacle to the consciousness,
Socialist Challenge1979Socialist Challenge No. 83, 15 February 1979
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