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Certainly the struggle cannot worker remains without his job, strikes. and it will be difficult to resume meeting has confirmed this.

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The implications of this word absorb' are that rather than the £75 minimum wage demanded by Camden NUPE, the council intends merely to consolidate a large portion of last year's rise into thè basic rate -thus leaving 1700 of the lowest paid workers with little or no rise in pay this year.

Left talkers

This act of treachery coming from a council that boasts some of the most prominent left talkers' in London (such as councillors Ken Livingstone and Phil Turner) is the other side of their refusal to mobilise the working class in challenging the Tories' right to impose cuts.

Despite their 'no cuts' position, proudly boasted at every opportunity, they have turned to a backdoor implementation of Thatcher's cuts through rate rises.

Their refusal to concede the full £75 demanded by Camden NUPE is the first overt cut they RATES SUBSCRIPTK are making, but it is only the first of many if they are allowed to pursue their line of avoiding a fight with the Tories.

• The response by the local NUPE branch to this plan was an emergency stewards, meeting on Monday 21 January to discuss how 'the workforce was to fight such betrayal.

The necessary course was clear: an immediate mass meeting should be convened to unite the whole workforce in preparation if necessary for strike action to defend the hard won gains in their living standards.

But sooner than give such a lead the NUPE Branch Secretary (a leading IMG member) argued for a mass meeting consisting only of supplement workers, to be held on February It-the day of the key Labour group meeting.

Such a policy isolațes the supplement workers from the strongest sections of . the Camden workforce, and heads away from the necessary united fight.

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