AT THE SAME time as the Danes were sticking a spanner in the Maastricht works, Buro-Pride 1992 was steaming full ahead with its bid to become something even John Major could approve Hot on the heels of the ay fride and bie and Pride and the ouncement that the politic content of this year's ever would be a celebration of European lesbian and gay dentity' against the back round of the single markel has comethe revelation that, for the first time, the march and festival are to be separated.
The march will now go from Embankment to Hyde Park, but the festival will take place in Brockwell Park, South London. People will have to make their own way between the two.
Pride organisers blame the police, but it is really an indica. tion of the event. The chaos and contusion causca, coupled with a ridiculously carly assembly time, will provide strong incenfor people to skip the TVCS march artoxetner and nead for the main attraction - the fesprotect the public from the enDon't read Reed!
By Bob Smith, Birmingham GPMU In the latest assault on union rights in the newspaper industry, Reed Midland Newspapers have launched an attempt to derecognise the print union GPMU and the journalists union NUJ.
hood midland, a tree sheet pud lisher employing some 400 staff across the Midlands, is determined to force out the unions, drive down wages and attack working concitions.
Sut GPMU and NUJ members have been fighting back, returning personal contracts unsigned and organising boycotts and industrial action across the group. Initial attempts at a boycott on advertising have mot with be extended to the Birmingham Voice.
But the campaign's successes are no thanks to Birmingham's Labour-led council, which has just given a consortium.
Leaders of the Labour Group on Hereford Council have backed protest campaign, however. Jo Kelly, leader of the Group and former Mayor, said Journalists at the Hereford Times have always been members of the NUU and the union has represented their interests.
Now the company is introducing personal contracts without any consuitations and taking away the basic human night of seeking support from follow workers through a union.' Speakers/ donations to: Judy Rees, 8 Gieave Rd, Birmingham B29 Tel: 021 4154914 or Jeremy Dear 021 326 6741 or Mies Barter 021 523 9980.
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