spending cuts.
Thursday July 16 saw thousands of NALGO mem. bers take strike action, part of a rolling prostamme or strikes spread over a three week period.
Bitter
The same day also saw counciots vote intousn d €12 million cuts package the face of bitter oppositon from the local community.
Protesters, including a bus-load of pensioners, were excluded from the council room. Instead of meeting their electorate the Labour councillors chose to call in the cops.
Vows
But the anti-cuts campaign is spreading. Protesters vowed to return in sreaten numbers for the next council mecting, and the NALGO action is escalating every day.
Housing Advisers have now been joined by Benefits and roll lax workers on all-out, indefinite strike.
Lettings offices are expected to join the action in the next few days.
Speakers from/ messages of support to: slington NALGO, 2 Orles477 4481. THE WORKERS at the Burnsall electroplating factory in Smethwick, mainly Punjabi women, are continu ing their strike for decent working conditions and equal pay for Strikers told Socialist Outlook: The conditions at Burnsalls are terrible. Workers are not given protective cores or masks, oesone workne wit dangerous chemicals. Many workers Industrial accidents When a worker injured his head in coxed of - no one was allowed to clock off to take him to hospital.
Overtime is compulsory - ten hours a day, seven days a week is the stand. ard time. This includes women. And despite doing exactly the same work the tues i wit tactory are crazy? for example you cant go to the toilet atter 4.30pm, because your overtime starts then. You can't go off the floor to get a drink, you have to bring a bottie of water to put by your machine.
*Andifyou have an urgent telephone call to make because of family sickness or something like that, then you have to clock off and go out of the lactory and use a public phone.
We organised our union secretly. us. Management wanted to know who the shop steward was so he could be sacked. But they couldnt find out.
Last straw Then they eventually sacked some one for refusing to do the horrendous overtme. That was the last straw for Since the beginning of the strike on 15 June, management have been trying to use to small number of scabs to recruit new workers, so far without much success. The picket lines have been successful in turing back potential scabs and lorries making deliveries.
Workers from nearby taciones have been regularly joining the all-day picket. More than 300 was collected for the Trade Union conference.
Speakers from/messages of support to: Joe Quigley, GMB, WiN Thome Hse. Birmingham Rd. Halesowen B63 ЗНР.Теl: 021 550 4888.
We will be taking a break in production over the will be out in September.
TEN YEARS ago anti-racism and anti-fascism were seen as major issues by the left. Since then, the influence of the far right has declined, but racist attacks have sharply increased.
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