[Still solid -the union recognition strike by workers…]
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Still solid -the union recognition strike by workers at Garners Steak Houses.
NUJ: isolation danger NUJ chapels fighting for backdating of their national agreement to January 1, face an increasing danger of being left isolated.
Many employers have Pti h EIUT HE LAW !!I la l TRADE UNION conceded the demands at local level-including Thomson Newspapers-and only Westminster Press and United Newspapers of the large employers are refusing local deals in a significant number of chapels.
The dispute began over the right to make local claims on top of the 10% national agreement. With a clause now agreed that allows chapels to put in local claims, the fragmentation of the settlements over backdating is making a united fight over wages against key employers less and less likely.
The NUJ tactic of a work to rule rather than all-out strike was the correct one. The union membership-due entirely to a combination of SWP ultimatism and right wing sabotage-voted against strike action on the national wage claim.
Those chapels prepared to fight for wages had to avoid the trap of allowing the employers to dictate an all-out battle over the preliminary issues.
Likewise the tactic of allowing some chapels to reach local agreements was also correct, since this split the unity of the employers and created divisions in the ranks of the Newspaper Society.
But the tactic has now become self defeating. As the number of chapels settling
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