Luard aids scabs
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Right wing Labour MP Evan Luard has delivered a blow against trade union organisation in his home town of Oxford.
Luard, a Junior Minister in the Foreign i Office, has supported a scab organisation-the Association of Polytechnic Teachers-against the TUC affiliated NATFHE.
According to the Oxford Mail Luard was hauled over the coals by his GMC for telling the governors of Oxford Polytechnic that they should grant recognition to the APT.
Luard's reply was to treat the APT and NATHE as competing organisations with equal aims.
"All unions should be affiliated to the TUC, but so long as there are teachers in the Polytechnic who belong to other unions I believe they have some right to be represented' . Our Italics).
In a later letter to the Oxford Mail, Luard sought to modify his position saying that he was prepared for ACAS to decide.
Oxford City Labour Party must, demand an apology and public retraction from Luard who has stabbed trade unionism in the back.
The GMC have urged Luard to withdraw his remarks and he has apparently refused. to ThuadC must mone it clear whom he . is responsible. the dispute to the manoeuvres of the print union leadership.
They had rejected calls from Westminster Press Group Chapel to spread the strike-a call that came in late August.
The strength of the Darlington Chapel has been such that the NUJ has gone back united and not crushed.
The trade union organisation has been preserved, with a promise extracted from the management that all jobs will be filled and that the proportion of NUJ members will not be allowed to fall below its pre-strike level of about 81%.
Enquiry
The sole promise beyond that won by the strike is that a management will improve pay levels "when pay policy permits"
An inquiry is now to be held by the National Executive of the NUJ into the dispute and the implications for the future of union's closed shop policy.
Only the most rigorous examination of the role played by the leadership of all the print unions has any hope of showing that what is needed is not so much a change of policy on the closed shop, but a complete change of leadership and a break from the bureaucratic traitors at the top of the print unions.