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BUREAUCRACY writ large is at the centre of the TUC's plans unemployed, it was revealed at a conference on Working against Unemployment held in Newcastle on 1 February.
Over 250 representatives of trades union branches, community unemployed organ Tucs Centresides ted LIC vuluchics Unempiovea centres . hese as are on grass the groundswell Blass in organising the unemployed almost Was unanimousiv abreca lnal lne proposals are incredibly bureaucratic and will stifle propose:
tull-ume union ornclals appointed by regional TUCs, for the lopetner with local councillors, who in many place would be Tories. The TUC exclude the unemployed, labour move maculancommu tivists, except as observers TUCS would be responsible for reporting out or une centres ine This would mean cutting off public and funds, and ing offending trades cus and umon branches The proposals were seen trying to the movement birth. 20p each & 11½ p postage Bulk orders (over 20) lop each post free history Society.
Newcastle Trades Council secretarv Colin Randall said: 1 nese guldelines must frozen untl there has been a debate at all levels of labour organisations and centres flavt link up independentiy of tne but the fight has to be taken up in the Labour Party and unions By Patrick Sikorski Dangenham plant.
contractors, them an important concession. Dagenham. The resulted in 20,000 FORD management has backed down over the use of contract drivers at the It had wanted to reduce its truck fleet by using outside but a two-week strike by the 440 drivers at Dagenham has won The drivers have been guaranteed 12 trips each month to Ford plants on the continent following a 10-hour negotiation session last Their resistance to management cutbacks was the first serious opposition to job loss at drivers' picketing, which workers Denny laid-off, obliged Transport Union officials to take up ly hostile to the drivers' action.
Union officials have thousands of jobs at Ford over the past year without even a hint of protest from the shootody take on workforce has failed further neadaches Dagenham plant was once again at a standstill on Tuesday when the drivers took 24-hour sympathy strike action over a dispute involving transport drivers at Silcox and Collings driver's picket line strike. But Silcox and Collings management ignored an drivers basic pay.
TUC letter tivity' by racist groups in Britain in police powers.
The report, whose police and blacks quite normal obscenities.
negotiated away But management's attempt to the most militant section of the The militancy of the drivers has caused management.
The latter had refused to cross the Ford during the two-week agreement guaranteeing their THE TUC General Council is to write to affiliated unions, regional councils, and trades councils in the light of what appears to be a resurgence of ac.
The TUC will ask that unions and trades coun cils review their activities in tackling racism to ensure that racists are not able to use the trade union movement to promote their views and activities.
Police obscenities A REPORT on relations between police and blacks in Lambeth, South London, calls for an end to the use of the Special Patrol Group in the borough, which includes Brixton, and no increase authors include local Labour and Tory councillors, points to the lack of democratic control over the police as one of the reasons for 'extremely grave relations' between A black bus driver is quoted describing the police as 'more like war officers than peace officers'. A magistrate said: "They do their best to provoke blacks by shouting at them from cars. It is for a police officer to shout
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the unemployed Secretary, Middlesbrough Trades Council Unemployed Workers' Steering Committee