'COBBLERS'. That was most common view of the deal which has temporarily ended the lock-out at Times Newspapers put by Times workers as they talked in small groups after mecung las! Thursday.
The meeting was to have had a guest speaker, Tony Benn. But the negotiations between union leaders, Times management, and Employment Secretary Albert Booth which had continued into the early hours of that morning were considered by the Prime Minister too 'delicate' LO alOW intervention by Benn.
So the Minister who has put forward an alternative future for The Times - its takeover by the BBC - was forbidden the by Callaghan from addressing the two hundred Times workers who had turned up to hear him.
In the they more of the deal which has temporarily re-instated 3,084 sacked workers reports in the evening papers than from the speakers at the In effect they have been presented with another date for a lock-out 17 April. agreement on the introduction proposed disputes procedure aimed at weakening the power any of the chapels has not been reached by then, management will again employees on the streets.
Meanwhile the Times presses remain silent — a tribute to the employers' view freedom.
The most urgent need is for learned mass meetings to discuss these could begin to turn the tide of the cynicism which has become the prevailing mood among Times workers.
The struggle liquidation of jobs at Times Newspapers If wants to cut its workforce by about a quarter — has brought some important gains.
The two issues of Times Challenger, liaison committee of the unions at The Times, have provided a valuable forum for debate in the labour movement on new of press itself has the battle But the of management, against the the bosses' management produced by LCWSUAUCE.
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