The UNISON branch are making a determined stand against the contemptible treatment. An emergency meeting is being called to arrange pickets and build a 24 hour branch stoppage of all 9,000 Birmingham Council UNISON staff.
Strikers are only receiving basic strike pay and need financial support as well as picket line solidarity.
• For donations, speakers and messages of support contact UNISON no. 1, 3rd Floor, Mercury Hse, 71 Cornwall St, Birmingham, B3 2EE, 021-233 3048. dustry'.
"Caprim can supply the information a traduced company needs to set the record straight and/or to initiate legal proceedings."
Of the two groups named, CAAT is currently running its "Together we car Stop the Hawks" campaign against the sale of British Aerospace fighter-trainers to Indonesia, and is researching the company's involvement in the Al Yamamah Saudi arms deals.
Campaign worker Will McMahon commented: "I'm glad the Economic League is concerned about what we have on BAe. It bloody well should be."
EIRIS's executive secretary, Peter Webster, said that his company merely supplied information to clients in accordance with ethical standards drawn up by the customers themselves, and that companies are always told what is said about them.
One edition of Caprim Monitor, dated July 1993, turns its attentions on the far Left, said to be "on the move again" after years in decline. Militant Labour and the Socialist Workers' Party are singled out.
"Militancy among teachers, firemen, railway, bus and tube workers, far from attracting public odium, has drawn some outspoken support. The silence of the TUC, after its early outcry against the closure pro gramme, can be portrayed as yet another betrayal of trade unionists by their leaders.
'The far Left has always got onto every picket line of any significance. The difference now is that the industrial relations climate is set to change... With union officials advocating playing it safe within the law, frustrated and impatient employees may be more likely to listen to those urging militant action."