(Notts NALGO steward) The Tories are stepping up their vicious attacks on the public sector in a desperate bid to slash their €50 billion public sector borrowing requirement.
The mining industry, the railways and the Post Office are all being prepared for with huge job osses. The NHS faces continuing cuts in services. Civil servants' terms and conditions are being badly hit by the extension of market testing and performance management.
In local overnment, the loss of 100,000 jobs and ser. vices are combined with the extension of compulsory competitive tendering CCT), whilst the local gov. ernment review appears to be little more than a cynical attempt to cut yet more jobs.
On top of all this, the Tories are now imposing a public sector pay freeze. Nith the deepening economic crisis and the requirements to control borrowing contained in the Maastricht there can be little doubt that these attacks will Public sector workers throughout the country have been involved in localised strike action against cuts in jobsand services, and attacks on conditions of service.
In many cases such action has been linked to wider struggles, in particular the campaign against pit cloHowever, if the gov. ernment's mounting attacks on the public sector are to be successfully resisted.it is ec. sential that action starts to be JUDI HALGO NALGO NALGO YOUR Jons ment employees are serifind the money. Prestige Steve Kaczynski AFTER SEVEN months on strike, islington NALGO members went back to work on February 1.
The year-long NALGO dispute in Newham has also been called off - with strikers foid by the union to retur to work with no guarantees of no victimisation.
In the last stages of the islington dispute, there had been two sources of pressure upon the strikers.
Firetly, the Natlonal Emergeney Committea, a sub-committee of NALGO's NEC, was threatening to cease underwriting the strike win ruw tuxe nome pay.
Secondly, Islington Council was