Miners Take the Money
Socialist Press1979 1979-12-12Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 11 →
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•..THAT MEANS MORECLOSURES,"
O' FISHALL -50,000 JOBS WILL HAVE TO GO!-WHAT?, OH WAGES?. OH YES, MISS PERKINS, FETCH THE OFFICE PETTY CASH-THAT SHOULD FIX IT!
S THANK YOU, SIR CHARLES... I'LL JUST SOUARE IT WITH THE EXECUTIVE.
The wild celebrations by Margaret Thatcher and the Tory press last week seemed strangely misplaced. , They were overjoyed that the miners voted-narrowly, and with the decisive votes coming from foremen and technical grades-to accept a ten-month, 20% pay offer.
This, said Thatcher, showed that workers would return to sensible wage bargaining.
But since when have the Tories regarded 20% as a "sensible" settlement? review due for November 1980, and the NUM Executive declaring themselves in advance of the ballot to be ready to settle for BUT AT THE EXECUTNE...
WELL SON, "STRIKE" MEANS STOPPING WORK) 'BUT WHAT IMPACT WILL OUR STOPPING WORK HAVE ON BRITISH STEEL?
(NOT US YOU FOOL- THE MEMBERS! YES BUT WAT HAPPENS THEN, DAD?
Gormley
only another 5%, many miners clearly decided that now was not the time to 'open the box' of Gormley betrayals, but to take the money.
The Tories have thus _climbed down before a powerful section of workers: and the miners are holding their strength in reserve for next year. Not much for Thatcher to celebrate!
BUT BILL-50,000 LESS WORKERS MEANS LESS UNION OFFICIALS! IT COULD EVEN MEAN REDUNDANCIES - WE'LL HAVE TO DO SOMETHING!
WELL SON - ONE OF TWO THINGS WILL HAPPEN... EITHER THE EMPLOYERS WILL GET SO FRIGHTENED THAT THEY'LL CONCEDE, OR AS IN 1926...
IT Y employers to obtain their entitlements.
Other proposals are to end the maternity grant and death grant from April 1980 and to abolish earnings related supplements to. sickness and unemployment benefit.
Supplementary benefit postal reviews and home visiting are also threatened, meaning that many old and disabled people will be denied benefits to which they are entitled.
Strikes On December 7 when the cuts announcement was made there were strikes and walkouts by CPSA and SCPS members in several parts of the country, demonstrating, rank and file opposition to the cuts.
It is now vital that CPSA, SCPS, IPCS, CSU and TGWU (representing industrial civil servants) immediately. organise joint national strike action to reverse these cuts and, alongside other sections of workers, spearhead mass action to bring down the Tory government.
WHADYA MEAN DO SOMETHING'?.. I'VE BEEN HERE FOR FORTY YEARS AND NEVER DONE ANYTHING YET!
WELL COULDN'T WE... ER..
LETS SEE... COULDNT WE STRIKĘ? . WE'LL GET SO FRIGHTENED THAT WE'LL CONCEDE!!!
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