Officials block strike to save cleaners' jobs
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officials poured cold water militant feeling at a mass meeting of Hull cleaners held in the city hall on the 18 March.
The members were calling for strong action to fight the attacks on their jobs being made by the Tory-controlled Humberside County Council.
Unlike the membership who would have been prepared to come out on indefinite strike action, this was the furthest thing from the leadership's minds.
Instead the area organiser told the meeting that at this moment in time strike action was not the answer.
He was at pains to stress that other council workers in the Humberside area had pledged support for any action taken by the Hull cleaners-other than strike action!
This was done to isolate the Hull cleaners and defuse the situation.
The leadership then went on and pushed through a motion tive as far as fighting the cuts in the workforce is concerned.
The cleaners have their branch meeting next Tuesday; April 7, where a motion will be moved: to step up this "action" in the event of any cleaner being made redundant.
The only action to be effective is all out strike action which must be supported by all the cleaners, and the leadership must be forced to give full backing to the strike action.
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