POWER may have been affected to make a fight on the floor of TUC Congress inevitable. The demand must be that the AEEU immediately its efforts to squeeze out other TUC unions or face expulsion from the TUC. The other key area in which a conflict seems likely is over TUC policy on the European single currency. Up to now TUC General Secretary John Monks has been able to strut around as a leading advocate Workers UNITE!, the new o journal for Rank • & File transport • merle Alliance workers, is • available now. • Greetings frenz UNITE! Send donations • to Triple • Alliance Box at • 46 Denmark • Hill, London • SE5 8RZ. month's pay. Kosovan, and Portuguese workers. wages with the main (French) contractor Bouygues.
USA PRACTICAL internationalism broke out in South London last month as building workers from countries across Europe, all working on a PFI contract for King's College Hospital in London, took joint action to secure back wages for one building gang. Two hundred workers picketed the hospital site demanding that the main contractor ensure that one section of workers be paid after their subcontract boss had skipped out owing them a Some workers were owed up to £2,500, some of the foreign workers being left destitute forced to sleep rough on the streets. As well as British building workers up to a third of the pickets were French, others employed by separate subcontractors included gangs of Latvian, Organised by the London Joint Sites Committee the strike was 100% solid - all stayed out from work for the day until UCATT officials were able to negotiate an agreement to pay back
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