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WESTMINSTER PRESS group chapel of the National Union of Journalists have voted overwhelmingly to call for the strike at Darlington to be extended throughout the group.
Darlington NUJ members have now been out for 11 weeks on a demand for a 100% post entry membership agreement and for the last two weeks have been joined by printers, bringing the papers to a halt.
The demand has gone to the Emergency Committee of the NUJ and will go from there to the Printing Industries Committee of the TUC. A major fight will now be needed to get the policy put into operation.
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The government's plan to call in ACAS foundered when Westminster Press refused to budge. Their offer was to recruit nobody at all until a Press Charter, limiting the action of journalists to strike has been pushed through Parliament.
Meanwhile national journalists are demanding pay increases of up to 45% after refusing to settle under Phase 2.
The membership is clearly rejecting the position of their delegation to the NUJ's annual conference, which swung the narrow vote in favour of controlled return to free collective bargaining and against a complete return.
The annual conference decided however that ali pay claims should Sever, a a travel on to. extreme Walden.
This Leyland standing cutting ist candidates for by-elections in the Midlands, Birmingham Ladywood Labour Party is fielding John 34-year old executive with company, in a bid to hold the seat abandoned by right wing Labourite Brian takes place even after •manager Terry Davis, uncritically on the wagepolicies of the Labour government, succeeaca In destroy- marraded in ing a massive Labour majority in Roy Jenkins' former seat at Stechford in Birmingham, swept away in an 18% swing to the Tories.
Of course it is not objectionable candidates as individuals that are devastating the Labour Party's electoral support.
John Rather it is the hostility of the working, slass to the reactionary policies implemer ited by the Callaghan-Healey policies which can only foster the belief that there is little difference between a Tory and a Labour This illusion has been further developed by the Parliamentary coalition deal between the Labour leaders and the Liberal Party, centred on the common deterPHOTO: Labour Weekly
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