Thousands of Islington Council workers took strike action on DecemberS against cuts in jobs and services, despite threats of victimisation.
the Labour-confroiled council was unequivocal. Using Tory antiaction - for which there had been no ballot illegal. One Labour councillor described the laws as 'a gilt from the lones Union leaders quickly joined the council in condemning the strike. Leaders of the teachers' union, the NUT. were rapidly followed by the General Secretary of the local goverment workers union NALCO, Alan Jinkinson. He wrote to the counch stating that the actor 'does not enjoy official NALCO support, allowing them to send threatening letters to staff.
90% of the 2500 strong NALGO branch came outonskedion sideser of other council unions including NUPE schoolkeepers, , closing sixteen schools. And a strong joint response by the timisation of a NUPE steward forced managers to back down Hundreds of workers and anti-Poll Tax activists followed up theaction with a vocal picket of the council meeting. which agreed a 1l million package of uts. As council leader Margaret rouge tried to justly cutting 250 jobs, jailing Poll tax nonand using tory anti-union laws, demonstrators gave a new lease of life to the chant 'Maggie, Maggie, Maggie - out, out, out!'. The militancy of the grants campaign seems to be reappearing TERM IS ENDING with a bang in many colleges throughout Britain. A wave of student occupations and other actions at Lancaster provision at Middlesex is inadequate; the restoration of all benefits and grants.
Throughout the occupation there have been student-conMACGREGOR teen prices, extra money for the reduction of the studentistaff ratio: increased genera. funding in line with student num-