Rr Offer Fails
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Another derisory offer committee, who later The negotiators have said that if any group of local government workers receive more than 10% then they will be back to reopen negotiations.
This is a coward's way out. It is a betrayal of trade unionism.
Are we to ride on the back of the firemen, when we should be out there on the picket line beside them?
A united stand by all those in local government is needed to smash the 10% limit.
The union leaders must be fought and defeated, along with the TUC bureaucrats if the low paid are to win a realietir standard of living from the management at the Rolls Royce Mulliner Park Ward plant in North London has been deservedly rejected by the strikers.
After 14 weeks on strike, the management last Wednesday offered the 600 workers a 10% increase • plus a £60 special lump sum payment. Formerly they had been offering a straight 10%.
This crude attempt to buy off the striking workers was first reiected by the strike commended reiection at mass meeting on Saturday.
The strikers are demanding a 17% across the board increase as well as improved sick and holiday pay arrangements.
The spate of offers (all inadequate) from management in the past four weeks is indicative of their desire to end what is undoubtedly a costly dispute.
The fact that all their manoeuvres have been rejected is however ¿ sure sign of the workers' desire to pursue the. strike until victory is theirs must break sharply from the bureaucracy. An appeal for support must belaunched and loca: posta., electricity and water workers must be brought into action behind the blacking call.
With the verbal support of huge sections of workers translated into concrete solidarity support and financial backing for the strikers and workers imposing blacking action, the question of closing down the factory and winning the strike will once more come to the fore.
Only with such a focus will the strikers achieve what seems to be slipping out from their grasp: full reinstatement and full union recognition!
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