NALGO calls pay action
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The of NAI progran action 10-22% claim.
right wing leadership GO has launched a ime of blacking in support of a comparability pay This fight is seen by the strikers as the test case of the directive: it will prove whether Evans and Co. want to win the strike or not.
A victory at Cowley could then be used to turn to other key Leyland plants such as Radiators at Llanelli and Swindon Body Plant and also to Fords and other major steel consumers. the firm to viability. At each point they have bent the knee to management ultimatums, and sacrificed their members on the altar of profit.
Acceptance under these conditions of Edwardes' insulting The action is in response to a management offer of 6-12%. Computer staff and other NALGO members have been instructed not to work on the issue of rate demands-a move that could quickly prove very expensive for the employers, who will need to borrow cash to tide them over.
This action is also being supported by white collar members of NUPE who share the same demands.
And air traffic control officers at municipal airports are to be balloted on action over Easter.
This stand by NALGOalbeit over an obviously inadequate pay claim-is a further reflection of the growing militancy on wages throughout the working class.