Defen Judit job
Class Fighter1982 1982-10-01Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 5 →
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'THE NALGO blacking of Care Concern is holding very well,' a spokesperson for the 'Defend Judith Williams' Campaign told us, 'and we think it is Care Concern is a private firm which runs homes for people put in care by local authorities. Judith worked at Berwyn College, a home for adolescent girls in North Wales. She was sacked on May 27, not for any fault in her work - which had been praised - but for being 'temperamentally unsuitable', in other words for being a lesbian.
NALGO members are blacking all placements of children in homes run by Care Concern.
The defence campaign is also seeking blacking of Care Concern by other unions. At least 8 branches of the TGWU's white collar section, ACTSS, have Twelve Trades Councils and nearly 100 trade union branches (NUPE, NALGO, TGWU, NATFHE, CPSA, SCPS, NUT ...) have passed resolutions supporting Judith, and so have many Constituency Labor Parties. The campaign is planning a picket of the headquarters of Care Concern in Ruthin, North Wales, around the end of October.
•Getting your YS to send a resolution to Concern, calling for Judith's reinstatement, sending a letter of support to Judith personally. •Sending a donation to the Campaign •Sending letters of protest to Care Concern, The Campaign also has specially designed postcards for sending to Care Concern in protest, Defend Judith Williams Campaign, having a major effect.' Building the March means explaining to the Labour Party, Trade Unions and the LPYS that women's unemployment is an issue we have to take up and fight.
To carry out the march we need lots of support: the LPYS should be throwing its weight behind us, and Class Fighter should make the YS do so.
Rose Chapman Brent East YS in the Labour Part Thner. Two years ago.