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NUJ members in provincial papers have imposed sanctions this week to uphold their right to local pay bargaining.

Sanctions include a ban on night jobs, a refusal to use personal cars for work and general withdrawal of cooperation in a number of minor ways.

Contradictory The action is as contradictory as it is difficult to implement.

NUJ members voted to accept a 10%, £7.06 pay offer and are taking action to prevent chapels being tied to a ban on local bargaining. fight Clearly NUJ members want to fight on pay-and equally clearly they saw no way forward in the national negotiations.

Local fights.

A successful outcome to their campaign will allow strong chapels to fight locally on wages, but small chapels will scarcely benefit from an action which brings a theoretical right to fight Phase 3 locally.

The action was implemented nationwide with mixed success.

With the Newspaper Society in an uncompromising mood NUJ members need a stronger action than a work to rule.

An estimated 1,500 South Wales lorry drivers began strike action on Monday 30 January over a wage claim which the employers in the rest of Britain have already conceded.

The sticking point in the claim is that the men want their ten percent calculated on a basic wage into which the £6 Phase 1 settlement and the £2.30 Phase 2 settlement have been consolidated.

Their union, the TGWU, are claiming that this does not represent a breach of the 10%. The employers, on the other hand are insisting that it does break the government guidelines and are threatening redundancies if the men do not return to work.

TGWU Regional Secretary George Wright told the local press that companies employing 1,000 drivers had settled before the strike and that he expected companies employing 500 of the strikers to cave in almost immediately

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