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As we go to press, Post Office Engineering Union leaders have rejected the "compromise" settlement offered in the union's struggle for a 35-hour week. The "compromise", hatched by the McCarthy mediation report, offered only a two-stage reduction from 40 to 37½ hours a week, linked to increased flexibility. Meanwhile the work-to-rule action now underway has begun to hit postal machinery as well as telephone equipment.

Further evidence of the threat of a sell-out has emerged this week in the Garners Steak House recognition strike.

TGWU Catering Officer George Abrahams is reported in the Catering Times of 3 August as being willing to drop the demand for union recognition in return for the reinstatement of the strikers and for a ballot of scabs and strikers.

This echoes the call put out by employer's stooge Bernard Henderson in the previous issue of the same paper.

It is clearly no coincidence. Who can deny that secret talks have taken place to try to get an end to the strike?

This desperation reflects the weakness of the TGWU bureaucracy and of the employer, not the strikers.

Important support has recently been gained. The members of NATKE in the National Theatre blacked those Garners suppliers who also supply the Theatre restaurant.

This action has scared the bread company Panaficio and Schweppes into stopping all deliveries to Garners.

But the TGWU is organised in many bigger places than the National Theatre-Heathrow Airport for example, and has taken no action against Schweppes or other Garners suppliers.

Courtney Wine and Coca Cola are still delivering to Garners, and could clearly be stopped by secondary blacking organised through TGWU Region 1.

Regional Committee members were given a rude reminder last week that the strike won't go away, when they were lobbied by strikers and TGWU members from Heathrow, Thorns and Central London ACTSS.

A stormy 2-hour debate took place, and delegations from the Regional Committee were to be seen on the picket lines twice last week!

We await the outcome of their promises to mobilise their 500,000 members.

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AFTER THE PACT, THAT'D PROVOKE SOME EMBARASSING QUESTIONS! members in the branches they have visited.

All that is lacking to win this strike is the will of the Regional The only concrete suggestion from the Regional Committee was that the Finance and General Purposes Committee study the strikers' accounts and possibly give another £10 hand-out.

Meanwhile, CPSA members at Catering Jobs Centre are still refusing to service Garners and John Grant MP, Under Secretary of State for Employment has said that Garners will not receive any more new work permits until the strike is settled.

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