THE Wandsworth branch of the town hall union NALGO are close winning significant victory the most Tory councils in the country.
the past week, borough's telephonists have been on strike, council house sales have been halted, and no tuel nas been issued to council vehicles.
The aim of the industrial action is a simple ONIC The demanding the re-establishment ot a'no sacking agreement that the council tore up when it announced recently that 700 jobs would be cut in April.
Council coma mitee have been picketed Labour concillors have refused to against attend them. vicious metings have after NALGO members who all the managers not to attend.
Last Fridav Uner said that they were willing to reestablish the ment. If this happens it will be a significant, if limited, mass meeting on the Unton s agreed to keep up the level of action until the agreement is sianec and sealed.
is also its weakness. The NALGO against meetnes commitet changed ocen cancened Insurucued are devamenta that unev .CouncI services.
No sackino aoree victory branch has no policy on fighting CUTS servites onty against compulsory redundancies.
the borough's manual union shop stewards have their position after NALGO's victory. They decided to recommend to their mass meeting take industrial action against compulsory redundancies. rather than against cuts in jobs and This means that both sections could opt out of the struggle for the defence of local facilities. And the call for industrial action with other boroughs on 4 February is being stifled by the inability of the execuuive clearly declare its support. Ray Davies By Helen Siyomovics (Cardiff North CLP RAY Davies. the chairperson of the rank and file Llanwern Action Group and a Labour councillor for Mid Glamorgan, has just been sacked as magistrate and had the Labour 'whip removed from him on the council.
In a letter to Herbert Morgan, full time Labour Party officer for Wales wrote, "the cucsuon we neca to ask ourselves is nov much more despair and tester erore ac Hop must peop. olk a cur m our local covern ment services must we absorb before we say enough is enough' Challenge: 'How cam an col aninen in
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