[A one-day national strike last Friday of university…]
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A one-day national strike last Friday of university technicians organised in ASTMS marked the 25th week of a strike by 130 technicians at Birmingham University.
The strike is over the University's refusal to implement a national agreement with ASTMS for a fifth week's annual holiday.
Seventeen other universities are holding out against the agreement while 34 have implemented it.
The strike has become a test case for the ASTMS organisation in Universities.
The administration are clearly out to break the union in this confrontation, and such a defeat would be of national importance.
24-HOUR PICKET A 24-hour picket has been maintained at Birmingham for many months. The supply of fuel has become the most important issue.
By using a scab transport firm with its own hired thugs for protection, the university has been able to maintain heat to the staff block, but the rest of the campus is freezing cold The boiler stokers are now considering solidarity action.
Up till now IGWL support has been excellent. and the picker line has been strictly observed. a