SCHOOL caretakers throughout Cleveland in the NorthEast went on indefinite strike tion on 26 Februar he NUPE members decide on the action five days earlier - the same day a mass meeting of refuse collectors Middlesbrough linked up with flying pickets from Sunderland to march to the town's main sewage pumping station. There NUPE area officer John Davies called his members out on strike.
The sewage strike, together Win Dad weather and niga tides, presented the prospect of raw sewage seeping onto the streets. "This', said Davies, 'is a risk the council is obviously prepared to take.
The escalation of the action has been largely a result of the From Bristol Voice NATIONAL Front thugs set on four hospital workers Thursday nicht as they were leaving a union branch meeting at Transport House, The hospital workers were attacked just a few minutes after an argument between a number of branch members and people flyposting Repatrianon not mungration posters on the walls House had endea with both sides being sent on their way by a policeman However the four who were attacked stood their ground, and the brawl quickly came to an end as about 20 branch members from Brentry laundry poured out of their coach to help.