Nupe Nec Say No' to Strike
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9 TIME The National Executive of NUPE has refused to support the recommendation of its own Labour Party subcommittee that the national action called for January 22 should be a day of strike action.
Instead they ar e calling for the usual Day of Action' and lobby of Parliament.
No plans Not content with this, it is reported that the NEC has made no firm plans for the continuous strike action it has been promising by key sections of members, said to include porters and delivery men at town halls, dustmen and water workers, and Central Sterile Supply Departments and catering workers in hospitals.
No date has been published for the start of such action and there is no further NEC meeting until February!
Worse still, and contrary to expectations, it now seems that if those workers selected do go into actior on behalf of the rest of the members, they will still only get the usual £6 strike pay.
The levy (of Ip per hour per member) that the NEC plans to raise will be used to pay this £6, thereby avoiding any depletion. of union funds, and not to provide the strikers with an adequte level of strike pay.
The outcome of the dispute has therefore been left entirely to local leaderships, working against difficulties imposed by their own union.
In London, a special "rally" has been calledostensibly to assess the strength of support of members.
This meeting starts at 7p.m. at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square. At this meeting it will be necessary to take up a sharp fight against the abrogation of leadership by the NEC, and to continue to urge militant sections of workers to take strike action on January 22, and stay out.
If only one borough were to give such a lead it would be possible to take the initiative entirely away from the discredited leadership and spread the action into an all-out national strike for the full £60/35 hour week claim.
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