IN 1979 the average award to unfairly dismissed workers E750. Employwas ment Secretary Norman Tebbit now proposes to pay scabs a minimum of £20,000 if they. get sacked for not joining a union. "The most serious threat to the unions this century TUC's verdict on his so-called Employment Bill now going through Parliament.
At the same time youth virtually COLL scripted. Tebbit offers them starvation wages for the privilege of being blamed for the mess government has created. SOGAT A joint fight by the unions and the Labour Party, reaching out youth for mass action to smash Tebbit's twin attacks, is the best way to resist.
Will the fight? Print union SOGAT's Bill Keys has called for a mass campaign Cereal the Bill, the law if need TUC iS holding special conTerenCe of cutive: on 5 April at Y CHLOIC The buildup will include mass leafletting, and there is a proposal for a lobby of parliament and national rally at the end of April. argues that sector strikes should be banned especially when we find that Bovd and Duffv are spearheading militant fUC campaign to ask the employers to oppose TebThere is also a danger in the TUC's potentially executinG which the General Council want actions men the Bill actions when the Lengthy court battles should not be a subsulue or ac cace or victimised militants.
The should be called on to ment/TUC bodies like the NEDC the National Economic Development Council and declare now that it will not go into the courts. It should openly back anyone now being threatened with the courts. such as the Plessey still being challenged in the The Liaison CommitSUBSCRIBE Subscription rates:
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Please send me Send to: Socialist Challenge, PO Box 50, London NI 2XP tee for the Defence of Trade Unions has called lobby of the meeting. we shoute use this to mobilise mass opposton to the bin ang force the union leaders to act. Action Our aim should be to build a mass base for local resistance against any attempt to use the Bill, starting from what Tebbit and the courts are now doing to youth and the unions. At the same time we must fight for a national campaign of industrial action to stop the Bill becoming law On their past record the TUC leaders can't be trusted further than we can throw them. But the initiatives they have taken so far open the way TO! Tear united drive against the Tories - i we use them oro perly.
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