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A series of one day per week lightning strikes by busmen in South Yorkshire is continuing in support of their pay claim-based on restoring living standards to the level of two years ago.

This works out at a 67% increase plus a cost of living clause.

Management have refused to offer more than 10%, insisting there is "no money available"

TGWU bureaucrats have refused to make the strikes official, and have taken no action to persuade other busmen to submit similar claims.

Elsewhere TGWU officials are hiding behind the 12-month rule to prevent the spread of action on pay.

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NOTICE

Not surprisingly many of the strikers gave up-some going back to work and others returning just long enough to hand in their notice.

Those still on strike learned quickly that this was not just a fight against management but against their own union leadership, whose first priority is upholding the anti-working class policies of the coalition government.

When workers take action to win the union policy of a £50 minimum wage, these officials go so far as to give full permission for other workers to drive through the picket lines.

The leadership realises that if Metropole workers win their wage rises thousands of other catering workers will follow them.

SPREADING

Already the £50 minimum wage demand is spreading, with workers in the Central Hotel group and other chains including Trust Houses Forte, Grand Metropolitan, and Rank, puting in similar demands.

This move, backed up by strike threats, poses a challenge to the long history of betrayal in the London Region of the GMWU, and to the wages council structure which has maintained the scandalously low wages.

It is imperative therefore that all GMWU and TGWU branches demand that the strike be made official, send delegations to the picket line and give the fullest possible financial support to group of workers who are being denied strike pay.

All contributions to Strike HQ, 51, Manor House, Marylebone Road. NW1. Tel. 01-723-4782 As the strike of 3,000 British Oxygen manual workers pursuing a 30% pay claim enters its third week, lay offs and disruption in the engineering industry are spreading.

Shipbuilding in particular has been hard hit, with 20,000 workers now laid off, while in the car industry attempts to find substitute methods of welding are causing havoc on some production lines.

There is no doubt that the strike has devastating industrial strength. Yet fresh moves are to be made by rational officials of both TGWU and GMWU in a bid to prevent workers' stranglehold tightening to the point of victory, and to preserve the 10% pay guidelines.

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