Unionise Hotels and Catering!
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TGWU sold out Garners recognition strike A belated but nevertheless correct campaign for union recognition is being pressed by the GMWU by calling on fellow unions to boycott Scarborough.
The struggle centres sional misconduct be struck off!
In the past the " Health Unions have always defended the role of the GNC which they S3k. • 004 *.x35 hotel industry where the GMWU is calling for recognition of its members at the Crown Hotel.
And until recognition is forthcoming it has appealed to other trade unions to hold their conferences elsewhere. The NGA, the Confed, the Boilermakers Society and the Womens TUC have already cancelled plans for conferences. in Scarborough.
The tactic is clearly a powerful one, but the question must be asked: why has it taken so many years for the GMWU and other unions to wake up to the need to unionise hotel workers in conference towns? .
The trade union movement spends tens of thousands of pounds a year on conferences, the vast proportion of which is funnelled into the pockets of viciously anti-union hoteliers and caterers.
.. Yet both the TGWU and the GMWU have repeatedly shown themselves adamantly opposed to an all out national campaign for unionisation in this viciously exploited sector of workers.
While supporting the GWU's stand on the Crown Hotel at Scarborough, trade unionists must demand that this. is made the start of a serious struggle to bring trade unionism to one of the country's biggest and most profitable industries.
PHOTO: Laurence Sparham, IFL