Socialist Outlook

Socialist Viewpoint, International, Socialist Outlook and their supplements, 1984–2002

Sniping from the Left

· Socialist Outlook no. 31, February 2000 · 528 words

attached to a PC if that is not bad enough there are targets. targets for this and that. This includes the number of breaks you have away from your cerminal, and you are pressured not to take You have so many minutes to take a call and deal with it, you have another target on selling if you work in tsu. Tou nave more targets than you know what to do with. So on a weekly if not daily basis you are poken to sharply and harassed to meet the all handling targer. If you meet that, you to finish what needs to be done for the last customer that you spoke to is too long. If you get over that hurdle. you will be told that you haven't sold enough and even the sales targets are broken down into different categories So women and men working in these conatons and seeing an ever increasing level of agency working decided enough was enough. They made a stand to say that they were no longer iust soing to sit and take it - they were going to fight back.

This shows what needs to be done in the ever growing industry, where there are already 200,000 people working in Britain SOTT The picket ines were full of new actrist who were not generally seen at union Hopefully many of these can be drawn in on an on-going basis to build on the strona of une sinke and stremen work. place organisation to beat back the bullying culture which is intrinsic to new management techniques. again ... In July 1945, Labour was overwhelming majority.

The Manchester Labour's success to revulsion apainst 25 years of Tory rule.

The Attice government started off by implementing the main planks in Labour's election maniof the railways, coal, gas. electricity, water and 4 Health Service which promised tree medical care from cradle to grave.

slip in the polls.

It began to lose working class support when, instead of moving for. ward by taking over the Years" replied financial institutes and introducing workers' conindustries, Herbert Morri- fee".

Peter Mandelson's pressco tol consolidation' and Gaitskell introduced prescription charges.

May 1997 wins with a landslide. Inis was mainty a revul sion against Thatcherism.

The New Labour Rov- Canterbury ernment, under the lead. ership of Tony Blair, placed its election belief, pledges on the back

Outlook Bill MacKeith (President, Oxford Trades Council, personal capacity)

detainces ( India started the latest rooftor Campsfielc Oxford) on 14 November: one had been held I5, the other 11 Wing the 2-hour protest. There was a heavy police presence including everyone, ( and at one from ground but no one was arrested.

On 3 January, a week after the regular monthly demonstration Campsfield, the Cardiff LasCal socialist and solidarity songs inside Campsfield, to the delight of detainces and choir alike.

Only fascist dictators gur any leniency from Jack Strat and New arrive without destinely Dorer. and al asylum seckers who enter "legitimately" at Stanstead airport.

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Liverpool council opposes "floatel"

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