Islington Secretary Islington the closure. Soclalist Alliance, personal capacity ISUNGTON Socialist Allance has spent the last cople of weeks bulding the campaign to defend our local sorting office, under threat of closure with 1300 local proposals. jobs to go. At the same time as plans for standing against Minister for the Dome Chris Smith, we have been putting out the CWU leaflet agains te clasretagt as many doors as possible.
Any such job loss would be a prionity for a local allance, especiaily in an area like nurs where the rate of unemployment is already above the national average.
But it ts even more tipor tant given the fact that the cwl branch involved sive money to the Socialist Alliance duning last year's Greater London Assembly elections and had to fight all the waw through to the union's national conference to regain control of their funds as a consequence. paigh so far was the public The highlight of the cam- jobs. meeting held on March 28 by the postal workers which was attended by 150 people, including delegations rom local NUT, UNISON and FBU branches as weil as large numbers of CWU members and a sizeable number of local residents who would be affected by Janine Booth, the Socialist Islington South adressed the meeting as did Jeremy Corbyn, Labour MP for Islington North who has oppose the Post Office's has hit Cambria hard Cabinet Minister Chris firmed cases of the Smith was apparentiy other- wise engaged, and the any other area of the disease here than in meting clealy agreed with country: The epiJanine who wondered what demic is having disas other engagement could be trous consequences more important than fight. Oh C DORC Ol ing to defend 1300 jobs in Cumbria. your own constituency. Smith apparently agrees with his Cabinet colleagues, who claim that what the Post Office (pehaps I should call them by their new title, Consignia?) does is not the government's business. BNFL.
The meting was also pleased to hear Executive member Dave Wall state that the union would support strike action if management refused to back down and make the investment neded to buiki a new oflice in the North London area and retain all the current The next stage of the campaign will be a local demonstration in late May The industry. Islington Socialist Alliance intenas to make sure we remain at the heart of this vital campaign to defend jobs and serices.
cially in Cumbria.