Broad Left sell out in CPSA OUT NOW! BATTLE FOR
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Second edition'of the opposition documents presented inside the WRP by the present leadership of the Workers Socialist League Price £2.50 plus 20p postage and package from Workers Socialist League, 31 Dartmouth Park Hill With a new introduction London NW5 1HR CAPITAL For a lead da.a tion with the Glasgow branch until Thursday 27 November, when the deal was simply presented to a'mass meeting as a fait accompli and members forced to accept it.
CPSA's retreat over the suspensions now gives management the right to offer overtime and temporary promotion, and sets dangerous precedent exempting the 3,500-strong Glasgow • Department of National Savings Branch from taking part in the cuts campaign.
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It is also likely that the NEC will now try to negotiate a similar seil out of the 39 suspended members at Kennington and Nuneaton DHSS offices.
The NEC's argument for backing down over the suspensions was that they now had information that there would be no major cuts in DNS.
They also said that there was RATES:
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10 issues, only Six months Six months Rest of the Six months officials are all set for an ignominious betrayal of pay demands for one million local authority manual workers.
After tub-thumping speeches from NUPE's Alan Fisher declaring that the inflation rate of 17½% is now the "going rate" for pay deals, negotiators came happily out of talks in which employers offered only 13%-linked to more redundancies and rate increases.
Chief negotiator Charles Donnet (GMWU) said that he was "optimistic" of reaching a negotiated settlement.
The employers had initially offered only which they claimed was the - Ira within the Tory cash limits.
But after a break they returned to table a vague 13% offer, to be financed "either from increases in the rates or from cuts in manpower"
There is to be no shortening of the working week.
Union leaders must be' called upon to reject any settlement based on acceptance of job loss or rate increases.
The cash limits imposed on councils do not act in the interests of the working class. They are part of the Tory drive to increase the profits of private industry.
Strike action
To offer public sector workers a rise far below the increase in the cost of living and tie this to mass sackings is a bid to foist this profits
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