THREE YEARS after their one-day strike against Maxwell's Pergamon Press, 23 journalists are still fighting for union In the latest move to rally support for the struggle, 100 people attended a rally in Amsterdam on 18 June addressed by Arthur Scargil. The miners' leader told an enthusiastic audience that the Pergamon NUJ chapel had told the truth about Maxwer all along.
Scargill went on to call on Pergamon's Dutch owners, sevier, to meet the NUJ's demands for recognition, jobs and compensation. He argued that only solidarity action - not the Maastricht Treaty's Social Chaprer - would prove effective in guaranteeing workers' nights.
A delegation of strikers is working in Amsterdam to pressurise the company, and has won a promise from distribution workers to boycott Elsevier titles. Anna Wagstalf of Pergamon NUJ called on Dutch unions to step up pressure on the companies.
Mike Sherrington of the NU industrial council stressed the importance of the struggle, called for renewed efforts to increase financial support for the stnkers.