Motions for Branches
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The CDLM called fo r the following resolutions 0 be taken back into union branches and sent from there to district and regional committees: 1. The TGWU members on official strike for 23 weeks at the Randolph Hotel Oxford have been instructed by the union to accept a buy off which means they have all lost their jobs and the union is left without a single member in the hotel.
The members were called out by the local District Official against victimisation as part of the union's declared intention to unionise the hotel and catering industry.
The strikers were denied the right to decide on the continuation of the strike as the TGWU Regional Office had accepted terms from Trust Houses Forte • previously rejected by the strikers, of cash payments instead of the union's demands for re-instatement and that the union was withdrawing official recognition from the strike, ending financial support and calling off the limited blacking action within the region.
The major factor in the strike being lost was the refusal of the TGWU General Executive Council to implement the policy adopted at Branch, District Committee and National Trade Group levels for national blacking, through TGWU regions, of Trust Houses Forte and calls for the immediate implementation of this policy to ensure the remaining strike at Grosvenor House, Sheffield, is won.
2. This meeting condemns the Oxford District Official's attempt to withdraw the official picket from the Randolph Hotel in the face of fascist provocation without reference to the strike committee and supports the policy of the TGWU 5/670 hotel workers branch calling for the union to accept full responsibility for the payments of fines for the 38 arrested pickets and donates £ to the Defence Fund.
3. The CDLM undertook to organise a campaign for blacking by the UPW, the GMWU and the EEPTU of post, water and electricity to Grunwick.
4. CDLM supported a call to open all books and files of British Leyland in the light ofthe "slush fund' revelations.
Part of the March 27 CDLM Conference