Strike call to papers
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TROTSKYISM THEORETICAL JOURNAL OF THE LEAGUE TODAY * No.2. March 7078. DON OUR STI GA NEWS SAY LIN PENSIONE no ospit, All out strikes in Thomson Regional Newspapers have been called from May 9 in support of journalists at Hemel Hempstead who have been sacked for working to rule.
The dispute is the second major confrontation to blow up this year between provin cial newspaper management: and the NUJ, and reflects the frustration and agitation over pay rates in that section o: the working class.
The strike has been caller by the emergency committer of the National Executive after a one day strike las week throughout the group.
Thomson responded to th one day strikes by sackin; journalists at Reading, Cardif and Middlesborough. Th dispute is over extra pay ments promised by the com pany above the national 10, agreement of £7.09p.
Strike
Meanwhile three sma chapels in Westminster Pre: have been called out on strik -although its beginning wi delayed to allow talks wit management to go ahead.
The chapels-at Hendoi Watford and Acton-are tr last three Westminster Pre papers not to have been give backdating of the nation pay settlement.
Immediately following ti decision at the annual co ference of the NUJ to ::
strikes in those chapels it were left, management ma, new offers at Slough and Oxford, both of which we accepted.
If the strikes go ahead t dispute has the capability being blown wide open on again.