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"From appalling to even That's the prospect in view for the living standards of millions of public sector workers if the Tories are allowed to get away with their Several weeks ago the Thatcher government announced a 6% limit on pay increases in the public sector.

Since prices are currently rising at 16% this means a real fall in living standards of more than ten pence in the pound for some or me countrys lowest cama af tha mounter'a lawroot NUPEST -• says NUPE says:

insults the Low Nine workers, four of them shop stewards, have been sacked from BL's Longbridge plant. Two more have been given two weeks' suspension without pay.

The sackings mark a new crackdown by BL as Edwardes takes full advantage of the subservience of the trade union leaders that. was demonstrated so clearly in the sell-out of the wage review.

If Edwardes is successful, these victimisations will trigger an all-out offensive by management and lead to similar victimisations in other plants.

insults the Lo Poic tha loc sta mu Already an onslaught on manning levels is underway as management makes use of the "bonus" scheme ratified under the 6.8% agreement.

And at Rover in Solihull, management have announced 200 compulsory redundancies who are to be selected by them.

The nine Longbridge workers were victimised last Wednesday when they were called to what was described as a management "inquiry" into the riot which took place in the plant two weeks ago.

The riot had been clearly provoked by management when Further evidence that the Tories will stick vindictively to their 6% pay limits emerged last weekend.

The Chancellor, Sir Geoffrey Howe, told local authorities that they would have to finance the proposed firemen's pay settlement by offering other local authority workers even less than the 6%, or by redundancies.

The Tories have also said at the 2% extra award paid to al government white collar ff as part of last year's review ist now be paid for out of the Two strong sections of irkers are now engaged in pay gotiations-30,000 water irkers, demanding a 30% rease, and 18,000 ambulance vers who will be demanding increase similar to that won the firemen.

Meanwhile leaders of a llion local authority manual irkers are still stalling on gotiations on their claim for they laid off production workers over a dispute involving the supply of seats from the trim shop.

They knew that workers were bitter over the sell-out of the pay claim and hoped to turn the production workers against the trim shop.

The plan misfired and the workers turned on management instead.

When those accused arrived at the "inquiry", which was significantly held in a management building off the plant, they were told it was not an inquiry at all but a disciplinary hearing-and nine of them were Continued page 11 Worse still to come-Thatcher Howe a "substantial" increase.

Since less than 6% is not in any way "substantial", there is nothing left to talk about.

Union leaders should instead be calling mass meetings at once to prepare for all-out strike action, and calling on every other union in the public sector to fight by their side in the struggle to destroy Thatcher's pay limits.

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