TV unions forced into action
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after management threats that they would be locked out.
They joined picket lines manned by ACTT members who have been out since August 9, after they were faced with a lockout for taking action over their pay claim.
Electricians belonging to the EETPU also faced a lock-out from this Wednesday.
Ditched claim
The action has been willingly taken by the members at each stage of management threats.
But the union leadership has already ditched the full 25% claim.
While rejecting a 15% offer, ACTT official Jack O'Connor has been pressing for the claim to go to arbitration.
Arbitration
Both he and ACTT General Secretary, Alan Sapper, have also been pressing for arbitration on a cost of living index linked claim lodged last year and frozen by the Labour government's 5% phe courts have already intervened in the dispute.
. A sympathy strike by ACTT members at Molinare recording studio in Soho was declared illegal by the High Court last week.
No challenge has been made by the union against the injunction.
Officialdom The dispute has also highlighted the character of union offialdom. Sapper Southern TV is not only in dispute with its technicians but has also locked out its journalists.
Lock-out Southern TV's personnel manager, who took action against the journalists for refusing to work without the locked out technicians, is none other than Tim Fell, who this time last year was 'Brother' Tim Fell, the NUJ's full time organiser for broadcasting!