Nuj Picket Shuts Papers
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AALISTIREVIZ NEWS The strike by journalists on three small London suburban papers against victimisation had a major success last week, when printers refused to cross their picket line.
Printers at King and Hutchings at Uxbridge supported NUJ members on the Acton Gazette who had organised a mass picket in support of their three week old strike.
They refused to cross the picket line last Tuesday and on Thursday received official backing from the NGA National Council to stay out till Monday.
The immediate impact was to stop umpteen publications-including an Arab daily Al Arab and the Jewish Chronicle, several weekly loca papers and, tor a time, the International Herald Tribune.
But after a management threat that the Herald Tribune would be lost if it was not published for the third night the NGA chapel agreed to send in a skeleton staff to work on it.
The Acton Gazette, Hendon Times and Watford Times, three Westminster Press papers, are the last in the country • to be refused the national £7.09 wage deal in a blatant piece of victimisation.
Journalists at the Bucks Free Press have refused to cross a picket line there and some other WP papers are in a mandatory session.
The pickets must now be strengthened and the NGA should ignore management ultimations to stop work on all papers in King and Hutchings.
Militants in the Civil and Public Services Association will have their eyes firmly on the new left wing Executive, expecting them to give a lead in coming struggles on pay and public spending cuts.
defeat sutfered by Truemid- the backed right wing in the Executive elections is a substantial indication of the readiness of CPSA members
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