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FINSTATE SARAH FRIDAY

Socialist Outlook no. 34, May 2000 · 383 words

Conference report

As Waterloo RMT Branch shown by their own subseSecretary Greg Tucker said: quent "SWT trains say this dispute being nterim Industrial Tribunal SWT'S 654888 offered to settle out of court. This is rubbish. They picking on one Sarah off if unfair dismissa individual because she is an effective Health and Safety was dropped.

HaCy dispute is that if she gave up fighting she would get money. This is every from management intimida- something grabbing The management of South likely to do unless they think West Trains have attempted somcone has a case against water. them Managing Director Graham has now agreed to ballot all Sarah's union, Eccles in an interview with Standard train crew on March 27 made the ridicu- As Graham Ashcroft, the sacked because she doesn't claim that Sarah was local Guards Representative at Guildford said: " This disBefore the issue for all of us - that is we vote Yes lawyers action." Support is clearly there were offering to pay from key activists in otber depots. John Imm, local Guards were saying to Sarah rep at Strawberry Hill contidently predicts Strawberry Hill will give 100% backing that profit in this dispute. We have sufemployers fered the same sort of problems. allowed to treat the RMT in RMT And as Mick Skiggs from Fratton points our "the reaSouth West son why the union is extend.

Wing the strike ballot is that management have sacked a representative - it could be anyone next!" supporter of the Grass Roots Aliance is not re-standing this the found While the Grass Roots Alliance has a number of tail. unes and some of io support ers on the current NEC have falled to change the Millbank mafia as consistently as one would have liked and the NEC itself has much less power to affect government policy than before the Blairite reforms, nevertes d trong showing again this time round would be a vic. tory for the left It looks like one of the Grass won't be on the ballot paper. Raghib Ahsan was barred by be the meeting nominating him was inquorate. This is disputed, and the decision should be challenged. For furTORA COIL CLPD, 10 Park Drive, London NWIİ 7SH.

Vote: Ahsan, Black, McCrae, Seddon, Shawcroft, Wilsman. the employers for the right to take

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