TUC's women's Ik-shop

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The Scottish Tenants' Organisation is launching a major campaign to secure 100,000 signatures on a petition against council rent increases of £3 per week.

The STO is seeking to enlist the backing of the unions in the campaign-and STO leaders are threatening an ali-Scotland the Labour Party 21.

But the limited nature of the STO campaign is indicated by the fact that its press officer emphasises that no rent strikes should begin until it is established that the petition has failed to change the government's mind on the £3 increase.

How long it will take Scottish tenants to recognise that the Thatcher government will not change course without a major confrontation remains to be seen. through natural wastage, speed-up and a breaking down of demarcation lines.

This iniquitous deal has been dressed up by the management in a letter given to all employees before they went on holiday.

Many of the workers at Hillington handed back the letter unopened, thereby expressing their contempt for what is in effect a nil wages offer.

The workers concerned must now ensure that they are actively involved throughout the dispute and fülly informed and consulted at each stage in any negotiations that may occur.

DON'T GO NIO The Scottish TUC Women's Conference held in Stirling on 19-20 November 1980 passed a resolution requesting the Women's Advisory Committee of the STUC: to .. "examine the possibility of arranging a trade union labour movement women's conference, in association with women's organisations, with the aim of uniting women in struggle against the present government and in defence of the hard-won rights of working women.

However, in the wake of the fiasco: of the broad based" Convention on Unemployment the STUC are showing that no lessons have been learned.

They seem determined to continue their own Scottish Popular Front' policies and have decided to go ahead with a Special Women's Conference in March 1981 "representative of as many aspects of Scottish life as possible.

Instead of a labour movement conference to launch a campaign on women's rights and discuss how to organise the struggle against the Tory government we are once again presented with a talking shop. : If past experiences of such conferences organised by the STUC are anything to go by, the conference is likely to be repres entative of all sections of Scottish society-except the working class!

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