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In negotiations taking place this Thursday they obviously hope to tie the branch to the rates negotiated at the previous day's wages council meeting.
Despite these moves however the weakness of the bureaucracy is seen in that they have only gained acceptance of the 10% offer at the Rank Hotels branch.
No doubt Romp and Tilston hope to finish the job by presenting the wages council agreement as binding on all sections.
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But with negotiations still pending. at the Grand Metropolitan and the Centre group, with the Metropole strike still stuborniy continuing and with the immediate prospect of a maintenance workers strike over wages, their position is far from assured.
The task facing those militants who have begun to realise the necessity of fighting the GMWU leadership and the wages council structure if a decent living standard is to be won is to continue to press for the £50 minimum wage whatever settlement is reached on Wednesday.
This means that stewards at the Centre Hotels branch must re-affirm their commitment to immediate strike action if their claim is not "MORNING O'FISHALL.
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The Executive of the giant public employees union NUPE has rejected a 10% pay offer made to 1 million local authority manual workers, in response to NUPE's 30% claim.
This decision is now being submitted for endorsement to their members-but they are not seeking any decision on action. Instead they simply want a mandate for further discussions.
The NUPE leadership is notorious for vainly "protesting' about the cuts. It now seems to be adopting the same attitude to wages.
Ron Keating, NUPE's national officer heading the negotiations said that as far as the 'political side' of union policy was concerned, it was limited to lobbies like last year's November 27 march.
NUPE's leaders, in other words, are determined not to challenge the coalition government, and to hold their members within the bonds of parliamentary protest, instead WELL WE KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH sette BROTHERS...
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officia An instruction to hospital workers not even to attempt to fight fires during the firemen's strike was made by COHSE South West regional organiser Steve Grant this weekend.
"This is not only a matter is boso corate story of but own members who are not trained fire-fighters" he said.
"They will help patients to safety and stop there. They will not risk their own lives just to save equipment"
Similar instructions should be issued by all union officials.
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