Law's Thf
Socialist Press1977 1977-08-31Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 10 →
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After six months the strike at Trust Houses Forte Night Out theatre restaurant in Birmingham is over.
The strike, over union recognition and the reinstatement of a ElS pickets outside plant last week victimised waitress ended in che same bureaucratic sell-out as the two carlier strikes at THF holels in Oxford and Sheffield.
Like the strikers at Oxford and Sheffield the Night Out strikers were forced to accept a cash settlement as the only realistic" solution.
Pat McGuire, whose victimisation began the strike, does not even receive a cash settlement. Her case will go before a tribunal, w here she will almost certainly lose.
Moreover, the vote to end the strike and accept a cash offer was taken while Pat McGuire was attending a funeral in Ireland and unable to be present.
The blame for the defeat of the strike rests entirelv with Alan I aw. the Regional Trade Group Secretary who took personal charge of the strike from its early weeks.
from the time he ended the selected blacking he was organising of THF establishments in the Birmingham area Law had done nothing to show that he had any intention of winning the Night Out strike.
BURDEN
On the other hand there were plenty of signs that ho found the Strike a burden he would ratber be rid ot.
In the latter wecks of the strike Law continually refused to see the strikers on the grounds that he was