[on UPW Tom Jackson's winter break at Bournemouth…]

Scan page 11

on UPW Tom Jackson's winter break at Bournemouth is not going to turn out the ideal holiday of his dreams.

Whatever the weather outside, the atmosphere is certain to be stormy inside the UPW's Special Conference on Pay and Productivity.

Fi Que had PARITY SeNCHE-ANY DORAS!

OH CHRIST.

After three years of slavish devotion to government wage control, the UPW leadership has finally been forced to fling caution to the winds, and recommend an 8% wage claim along with full consolidation, reduction of the working week, an increase in annual leave, a cost-of-living clause and various Jackson BROTHER ENLARDES"

OST TOES, PLEASE SHOW! pâ fringe benefits.

The size of this package reflects fairly accurately the scale of the pressure building up within the Post Office from UPW members suffering from primitive working cond tinn; and miserable pay 3t9s.

But the Exec- recom mendations have airta. . been challenged by scores or cind. ments, almost all demanding larger claims, and ugly talk of industrial action has already stung the ears of Tom Jackson and co.

Amendment

One amendment from the Oxford (PHG) Branch puts forward a 25% claim, alongside all the other sections of the Executive's claim, and provides for a realistic cost of living clause as opposed to the Executive's phony gesture.

The same branch has also called for the rejection of the proposals on productivity which have now been held back by the Executive.

LEEDS Trades Council has passed unanimously a call from the National Union of Sheet Metal Workers for the Labour government to stop supplying arms to Iran.

But the resolution lacked any call on the trade union movement to impose immediate blacking action to bring such supplies to a halt.

WITH MY CASTING VOTE, TE RANS! ARRIED. ONLY WASM ME COULD RUN SHOP FLOOR MEETINGS AS SENSIBLY AL THIS!

----- pull-quotes -----

SON PHOTO: John Sturrock, Report