_ Council staff defy the cuts EAST Londoners who picked up a new local newspaper last week would have had no difficulty distinguishing it from the usual amalgam of crime-scare-stories, potty pranks, and anti-union huffing.
The weekly East End News, launched on Friday with a print-run of 14,000 copies, unmistakably linked to the working class community on which it is based.
Lead The front-page lead is on council workers defying The t against the fees increases Tor overseas sudeal. ov position to council house sales, and the local Labour Party response to a Social Democialy defector among the news stories.
History is there, too, in the shape of an account of rebels who ticipated the 1381 Peasants Revolt, and an article on Tom Mann's influence on the East London labour movement. By J Silberman, Ferranti worker WORKERS at Measurements in wood, Manchester, significant victory redundancy last week.
The company backed down TUSU olie day after meeting had overwhelmingly voted in favour of industrial tion to meet the threat of 40 compulsory redundancies.
As 'No one in this factory can now say that it is impossible to nignt agalnst redun dancy and win.
By Colin Talbot, deputy secretary, Westminster branch POEU (personal capacity)
THE national executive of the Post Office Engineering Union has rejected by 11 votes to 10 a call for a one-day strike against the Tory attacks on the Post Office.
jor Post Office unions, the UCW and CPSA, are to hold a delegate lobby of Parliament on 1 April.
Wandsworth flats The stewards' had negotiated voluntary redundancy and early retirement, but Ferranti HOSE month the Hollin- nounced that workers had agreed to go won a that compulsory against ficucosaly •COT was mass cutbacks.
was ac- workforce, increase productivity and boost profits.
Ferranti Union duces electricity meters and the company wants fewer parts and so would need a smaller workforce.
Instead, the POEU and the two other macommittee compulsory move an- reduction. enough and redundancy of the recession given as the reason for the Management's goal rationaise une Measurements prothis produce a leaving The Union of Communication Workers anc the Civil Servant's Union are calling for a mass turnout, but not the POEU 'This is not intended to be a mass lobby' is the stirring call from the POEU leadership who aim MPs, 'persuade their political complextion, to vote sections OI the Telecoms Bill which we find objec.
Ferranti needed a victory on ahead to massive job Management re jected short time working and even went so far as to reruse 59-year-old women and 64-yearold men early retirement.
The unions took up a position of 'cut hours, not jobs. calculated that 40 redundancies were equat to a two-nour cut i the working week.
When management refused meetina decided to go on a 38-hour week, hours early every Friday and also to take industrial action to stop the redundancies. Tom O'Carroll sentence supporters were engag
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