Hull Roads Blocked in Cuts Protest

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Picket by industrial civil servants outside the Ministry of Defen over the staging of their pay claim. Selective strike action is tak Hundreds of parents are blocking the roads social service expenditure cuts.

Their decision to slash £2.5 million off the education budgét has meant an all-out attack on the educational standards of the region.

565 full time posts are to be axed-affecting up to 1,000 full time and part time workers.

Over 200 non-teaching manual posts are to be cut; 185 full-time teaching posts will go; and all adult education classes will be shut down for a year, alongside cutbacks in the youth service and further educa9022 Sa defence installations.

Throughout British Leyland great confusion has been caused amongst the workforce by the sheer number of different attacks all facing workers at the same time.

There is of course the latest Edwardes plan which not only includes plant closures and cutbacks but continues on the overall speedup strategy.

In response to this offensive 3,000 Rover workers are now on indefinite strike against the company's attack on their "mutuality" agreement. • Then there are the two-day strikes on the Confed tion and the abandonment of the nursery building programme. • Ironically in the face of this attack it is a cut of almost a half in school crossing patrols that has prompted the most bitter protests.

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At 9 crossing patrol locations throughout the city parents are blockading the road four times a day at the times when the patrols would be in operation.

All traffic is stopped as most drivers-particularly the bus drivers-respect the picket.

The parents ram home their message that the Tories are prepared to endanger the lives of their children going to school in pay claim which the Cowley workers are blacklegging on (although most Cowley workers are now laid off anyway) while the other plants keep a principled position.

At the same time the November pay review is being formulated. The bureaucratically-organised National Joint. Negotiating Committee has decided that it will decide what should be in the claim.

£120 a Generously, asked plants "ideas"

The craftsmen's tee is arguing for week, while the *904 week they have to submit commit£120 • a Cowley order to carry through their attack on the working class.

On Wednesday of this week, the parents from all the crossing sites are to converge and march onto the city council building.

They will be following in the footsteps of 500 school cleaners and another 500 school meals women who supported GMWU demonstrations at the council buildings last week.

But if the struggle against the cuts in Humberside is to be won, fragmented protest action will not win it.

It will require the most determined resistance in defence of every job and service threatened by the cuts with the full backing of the trade union movement in united action against the Tory attacks.

in Whitehall in dispute g place at certain key ttack Assembly plant is calling for €120 per week plus a cost of living clause to cover inflation.

The Combine Committee has meanwhile called a full meeting on Wednesday to decide its position.

The Cowley Assembly Plant stewards have also correctly called for the claim to be decided on and organised by a delegate conference of one per hundred members in order to take it out of the hands of the NJNC.

Alongside all these struggles the company is busy forcing through its new grading structure.

Most plants have taken the misleading advice of the Pickets outside Marlborough Street Magistrates Courtone of 18 inner London magistrates courts hit by

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in the city of Hull in daily protests against the Tory government's