Booksellers' Strike
Socialist Press1979 1979-01-17Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 10 →
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After more than three months of sporadic strikes the TGWU/ACTSS members in London's Economists Bookshop decided last Friday in favour of all-out strike action in support of their demand for union recognition.
The management of the shop, jointly owned by the Economist magazine and the next-door London School of Economics, are holding ou : in spite of the union ha ring majority support among the bookshop's dozen staff.
Shop manager' Gerald Bartlett, a notorious anti union witch-hunter, has insisted that the recognition issue shoyld be decided by a ballot of the whole company, a deliberate manoeuvre correctly rejected by union members since the retail operation is geographically and organisationally separate and has traditionally been dealt with on its own.
The latest attempt to undermine the unionisation moves have been the announcement of a staff association and management posters, reminiscent of those nearby on the windows of Garners Steak Houses declare its aims as 'fighting for democracy' and its members as 'proud to work here' A campaign into the publishing and print unions for blacking, supplies and deliveries and help on the picket is an urgent priority.
Financial support should be sent to Helen Miller, c/o D. Cohen, the LSE: Students Union, Houghton St., London WC2, from which address further information can be obtained.