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Yes! I want to become a Socialist Outlook supporter O I want more information about Socialist Outlook O i I want to take an order of ........... copies of Socialist I Outlook to sell O Name: i Address: Tel: Journalists have stepped their fight against both the wave of derecognitions in the press and the victimisation of Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) sufferers.
Workers at the Rotherham Advertiser, on strike against derecognition, were joined by more than 100 supporters from the NU) journalists union and the print workers' GPMU. The strikers, who have increased Please return to: Socialist Outlook, PO Box 1109, London, N4 the GPMU and the NUJ to sanction any secondary action.
So although the strikers are i solid, the GPMU refuses to i bring its members out in solidarity, despite majority sup port; and the NUJ has failed to give effective national backing Meanwhile, journalists at the Financial Times (FT) have increased pressure on management to withdraw threats against nine RSI sufferers. With the expiry of a 70 per cent strike vote. NUl members forced concessions from the FT manage ment when they produced an even more solid mandate for action, with more than 80% in favour.
that effectively amounted withdrawn, and more money has been promised for workers taking voluntary redundancy. The climbdown follows a victory in the courts for RSI suf. ' I include a donation of E. ferers in the NCU, the British Telecom workers' union.
These victories are a big step forward; but they show that the only way to stop victimisation is through a solid union response.
socialist Published fortnightly Solidarity price £1 Strikers and claimants 25p No 15 Feb 1, 1992 NO CUTS AT KINGS FOR GH