THE FIGHT against the nearly 1000 redundancies annonced by Liverpool city council is continuing.
Rotating strike action, mainly by NALGO and GMB workers, has affected a large number of council services.
Nearly 400 redundancies were agreed by a full meeting of the council on 6 March, and more than 500 by a council sub-committee on 26 March.
NALGO is challenging the legality of the second wave of redundancies in the high court.
The jobs axe has far from finished its work in Liverpool. The financial crisis of the city will mean that unless this present wave is defeated, many thousands more will follow.
The political situation on the council has been complicated by the outcome of the local govemment elections. Five 'ward' Labour candidates, backed by the Militant, defeated the 'official' Labour candidates imposed by the part leadership.
The five have joined with 20 suspended Labour councillors to form a 'Broad Left' group on the In Cardiff, Labour ran a council. There are 25 Labour councillors backing council leader Harry Rimmer and another two suspended councillors who have not joined the Broad Left council group.
In effect this means that in Liverpool there is now a right-wing Labour-Liberal coalition running the city.
The five 'ward' Labour candidates won a total of around 8000 votes, in a total of 50,000 votes for Labour in the council elections. This compares with 90,000 won by the Labour Party at the last local govemment elections. bring Labour councillors to