The 'REM 11", victimised postal workers, have been out of work for nearly a year, but the campaign for their reinstatement is growing as The REM 11 Post Office Counters workers in South East London wore in the forefront of the 1991 Union of Communication Workers (UCW) dispute. They had also campaignod against the introduction of now duties in their workplace.
They were sacked for what the By an NCU member 'RELEASE 92' is British Telecom's (BT) plan for cutting 24,000 jobs this year -on top of last year's 20,000.
Such is the demoralisation among BT staff that enThis formed the backdrop to this year's national Communícations Union (NCU)
conference. The executive's realist majority have fully collaborated with Bl ment in negotiating the deal While the left accepted that It was too late to stop the plan, da pu so to damn sup port for one of the most dangerous features - the creation of a company by Manemployees as short-term contract labour.
In this context the unanimous support for a national strike ballot with a 'Yes' recommendation in une event of compulsory redundancies may prove pretty meaningless. management describod as overtime fraud - but wore in fact set up. The prachce of too and tish is cominor to both the REM unit and the Post Unice in generat They were given permission to leave early after comploting their work -but this was the reason ghen for their susponsion and subsequont sacking.
The workers are soil walting for an industrial tribunal. In the meantime cially supported them, and the recent UCW confereno acreed lo mount a campaign for industrial action among And every other proposal for industrial action was op posed by the executive - over a shorter working week, and for example - unfortunately with most delegates support.
Policy success
But the Broad Left (BL) won some significant success on ar right the executive majonity An innocuous motion calling fora Labour government to increase its shareholding in BT opposition from the top table.