Nuj Faces Crucial Vote
Socialist Press1977 1977-12-07Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 11 →
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Or shall As we went to press the National Executive of the NUJ were meeting to decide on a call from the Darlington chapel tor escalation of their 27 week old strike.
Darlington journalists voted 79-1 with 5 abstentions 'offer" that they return to to reject a management work without a single concession to their closed shop claim and in doing so put print union leaders back on the hook.
The offer was taken 'without comment' to the chapel by NUJ General Secretary Ken Ashton after a meeting between print union leaders and management from which ROTHERS... THIS TUC WAS BUILT TO UNITE OUR STRUGGLES..
EITHER WE STAND ON A COMMON PROGRAMME, OR.. strike representatives were excluded.
Joe Wade has said in a letter to the NUJ that his union would be prepared to discuss some form of escalation throughout Westminster Press.
Meanwhile he told his own union members he hoped the NUJ "will turn their attention towards achieving a settlement rather than escalating the dispute"
It is of absolute importance that a firm date is fixed for escalation throughout the group. A special delegates conference should then be called to spread the dispute to the whole Newspaper Society to uphold a vital plank of NUJ policy DIVI DED WE An attempt to reverse the TUC General Council's betrayal of the Grunwick strikers will be made in a lobby of the next General Council meeting on December 21. But there are no indications that this coming lobby has been any more adequately prepared than previous efforts-despite the far higher stakes involved.
With APEX leaders having imposed a four-week suspension on the four hunger strikers from the strike committee, and the TUC refusing the slightest support, there is a real danger that the struggle will weaken unless a perspective is given.
FROM AN HISTORIC AWARENESS FORGED OVER DECADES OF ADVERSITY...
WILL FALL. THEREFORALL ON ALL OF YOU THAT WORKERS UNITE! MUST AN INJURY ONE IS ANI NJURY TO ALL!
JNITE TO SMASH, THE I FIREMEN:
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