as the press We are mostly ow-paid clerical workers. We THE deserve a decent living wage just like any other workers.
It will be interesting to see how many Labour candidates LEECHEL are prepared to come out in our CO 200 tion gambit CreW Have The Anti-Concordat. Available from The Other Bookshop, 328 now scope for between an ln coming Conservative governand the unions immense', said Leon Brittan, Tory spokesperson on employmenu, a lew days ago Wishful thinking? An elec counter argument that Labour is better at "dealing with the unions"?
Unfortunately Thatcher's some ground for claiming a Tory government would find much to talk about with the unions and it's called the Concordat The Concordat accepts that 'curbs on the power unions are necessary. It does not use the same language as the Tories, but it agrees changes are needed over picketing, the closed shop, strike ballots -all the issues on which the Tories will have been demanding change.
*As Conservatives we should examine carefully the solutions proposed the Our socialism will be infinitely more democratic than what exists in in the eyes of the millions of workers throughout the world, We are opposed to Concordat and explain exactly where and why those solutions seem to us inadequate', Brittan added.
We should then invite the Tences these deficiencies and come up with further proposals.
The Tories have made it clear that 'remedying these deficiencies will in some cases mean using the law - to preven effective picketing, particularly flying pickets, and break the closed shop TUC-Labour government pact calls on the unions to exert self-discipline; in other words for union leaders to impose discipline on the rank and file The Tories have won half the battle in getting the TUC to admit that sort of discipline is needed.
Stealing the Tories' clothes win Labour the election. And what is worse, it paves the way for Thatcher and friends to launch an attack on the unions should they get in.