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call fior s workers-since 1977, and has been active in fighting for the public sector pay claim since October of last year.

What do you see as the main issues in the public sector pay claim now?

The main issue is to achieve maximum solidarity among all sections in public sector unions under the banner of all-out strike action.

Why do you emphasise all out strike action as opposed to the selective action called for by the I don't believe that the leadership can be trusted; firstly because throughout November up to now Fisher has refused to take up the fight for our pay claim alongside the Ford workers, bakery workers and recently the lorry drivers.

take Secondly the leadership favour selective action.

The whole trouble with selective action is that while the leadership have all controi over negotiations they will make it seem that the winning of the strike lies in the hands of the local branches.

So when their strategy fails Fisher and Co. will simply point to the membership and say 'you lost it'.

What would you say to those several sections that have already come out on indefinite strike action!

They must take up a fight to spread the strike among all the other sections in their unions, and' press the union leadership to actually call official all out strike action.

What steps have you taken in your branch along these lines?

Last October I put a resolution through my NUPE branch on man of the Divisional Council, and asked him to convene an emergency meeting of the We argued that the LDC had a responsibility not just to back those isolated sections in several boroughs that were already out, but to give an official lead.

Although further obstacles were put in our way by Harry Barker, the full-time Divisional Officer, on the following Wednesday I got the same resolution through a full branch stewards' committee, which was by now strongly in favour of all not antion our deliun.

Now they had no choice but to call a Divisional Council meeting.

When is this meeting going to take place?

The meeting is called for Thursday February 1, and we are building for a strong lobby.

If this Council does put out a call for official action, I think and recommended that we should resume normal workingarguing that we had 'made our point' and should wait for the next offer.

We must fight for national all out strike action for the full claim, and we must fight the army scabbing by running a skeleton emergency service under the control of elected strike committees--to be withdrawn at the first sign of scabb-l ing from any source.

This way the blame tor any suffering caused to patients can be clearly laid at the door of the real culprits-the Callaghan government and the state.

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