TS OUR THE TORIES are expecting widespread industrial action against the 1.5 per cent pay norm this spring leaked Whitehall documents revealed this week. Let's give them all they bargain for, and then some.
Details of a memo, drawn up by senior officials servicing a cabinet committee on pay which is chaired by former energy secretary ord Wakeham, appeared in The Guardian this week. ENGINEER A NEW Miners and firefighters are seen as "high risk". Making the 1.5 per cent limit stick in the pits "threatens to be difficult... given the background of pit closure and privatisation issues". A relatively generous pay formula for firefighters, conceded after industrial action in the late seventies, will almost certainly be axed this year. The Fire Brigades Union has pledged to strike in its defence. Railworkers and nuclear power workers are Printed by Tridant Press, Edenbridge, Kent. Published by Idolrare Ltd, PO Box 1109, London N4 2UU KL AEROS on strike in the next six months, the document predicts.
NALGO, the white-collar local governmen! union, is seen as possessing "the ability to organise effective selective strike action". The union has called a day of action for March 18.