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Socialist Press1977 1977-10-26Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 10 →
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Council is again threatening redundancies and reduction in hours for workers within the school meals service.
Using the excuse of a decline in the number of dinners taken since the 66% increase in school meals prices they have told union representatives of kitchen staff and meals supervisors that cuts must be made.
Already the Council has introduced cuts in hours worked. Clearly unions must begin to fight back now if jobs are to be saved.
The cuts have been threatened for some time and following a long battle the GMWU branch which covers school meals staff in Nuneaton adopted a policy of total opposition to cuts, calling for strike action if any attempt were made to implement them.
The task now is to put this policy into practice.
In addition to fighting for the implementation of the branch policies, school meals workers should demand full access to all County Council accounts.
Such an investigation would show the real state of local government expenditure and the way that profits are being made out of essential services.
There must also be a fight for the abolition of school meals charges and the adoption of a sliding scale of public expenditure to protect essential services from inflation.
In the wake of the battle at Desoutters and in the THF hotels over union recognition we can expect a wave of anti-union actions from the bosses.
One of the first of these is taking place at the Azion factory and warehouse in Lambeth.
Azlon manufactures plastic laboratory ware and scientific equipment for a wide range of customers. Over the last few months there has been increasing union recruitment both in the factory and the warehouse.
This resulted in the sacking on October 4 of Trevor Williams who had begun the recruitment for the TGWU.
A number of workers struck in his support and have been out ever since.
Deliveries are being maintained by scab drivers to laboratories, schools and colleges.
The strikers have issued a call for technicians to refuse to accept delivery of Azlon materials from scab drivers.
Meanwhile the local TGWU district official has made himself unobtainable.
Lambeth Trades Council is supporting the strike and calls for a
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