NGA leaders help to destroy their
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NoT AT HATSUPE ANY NAP = THE The NATSOPA demonstration against the lock-out threat In imposing an indefinite lock-out on 4,500 print workers and journalists at the Times, the International Thomson Organisation obviously enjoys the full financial and political backing of other Fleet Street papers and the print employers as a whole.
If they succeed in their objective of forcing in new technology and effectively eliminating NGA control over typesetting operations, management will be paving the way for an all-out onslaught on jobs, throughout the industry.
Waiting for lead
But even while the Times workforce waits vainly for some positive lead from union officials it has been revealed that the opportunist leaders of the NGA have entered into a deal with other Fleet Street bosses to allow them to print extra papers while the Times is off the streets.
Financial
These extra sales will prove added revenue for the Times' rival papers-but revenue which these employers are quite likely to channel back in financial aid to Thomson management in their war on jobs at the Times!
In other words rather than call out the NGA's other Fleet Street members in support of the threatened workforce at the Times NGA leader Joe Wade is encouraging them to do extra work which can only strengthen the employers!
This, plus the revelation of secret talks and attempted secret deals between the NGA leadership and the Times management points sharply at the danger of a major sell-out which in a comparatively short space of time could cripple the NGA as a union.
Such wheeling and dealing must be condemned by every printworker. Instead the call must go out for the Times premises to be occupied, and for supporting strike action throughout Fleet Street.
Defend all jobs! sharing on full pay!
Conspiracy
Open the books of the national newspapers to show the financial connections and the conspiracy to slash jobs throughout the industry!
Demand the nationalisation of Times newspapers and the remainder of the bourgeois press without compensation and under the management of elected committees of workers.
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