THE Lambeth week of action against CURS has won firm support the council's TrOM manual workers. 1,400 construction workers struck on Monday along with more than thousand other manual workers, including refuse collecand roadsweepers.
Senior shop steward Alf Sherwood said: This is just the beginning as we know our Jobs are on the CHRISTOPHER Murphy, Tory MP for Welwyn and Hatfield, has announced plans to introduce Private Members' Bill in parliament which is likely to be greeted applause by working class people.
NALGO branch secretary Mike Waller explained: 'We are trying to persuade the government to nave d total change in policy.
'The way the government has squeezed the council means that unless the trade unions In this borough are successful can see quite sequences in terms of CULS Service ane redundancies.' council leader Ted Knight, the subiect of a sustained witch-hunt in the Tory press, supports the week of action against Tory CURS SOCE spending.
He commented: 'The council and the workers are under attack from all angles. that everyone should pay the same that means the rich would pay less than they do more Murphy's proposals are Just Tory subsidy for the rich. Nevertheless, many almost anything will seem preterable to the present system promised rate increases.
It should be stressed Ted Knight, second from right, on Lambeth picket line last Monday STOP TONY
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