STEVE Goldfinch and Amanda Lane, who is the CPSA branch secretary. have been sacked from Bedminster Job Centre.
CPSA members there
struck for a day in protest at the Centre advertising vacancies at JW Arrowsmith, where 120 workers have been locked out since April.
It is an attempt to intimidate union members in the run-up to market testing and privatisation. Management are worried by upcoming ballots by four unions - CPSA, IRSF. NUCPS, NIPSA - for a united civil service-wide strike against market testing on 5 November On 2 and 3 September, 11 Employment Service offices in the Bristol area took industrial action in support of the sacked activists with the support of the CPSA nationally.
Demand the union backs further industrial action by writing to CPSA HQ, 160 Falcon Rd, London SW11 2LN.
Send protest letters to the head of Employment Services, M Fogden, 30 Orange St, London WC2H 7HT.
SOCIALIST OUTLOOK No. 49. 18 September 1993, Page 5