Wandsworth bites the 'dust' | IMGpapers 1980

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now be done by Met', joining Exclusive Cleaning the Tories carve up of council services.

The Wandsworth disaster follows two months of strike action by the refuse collectors, accompanied al. umes the whole workforce, manual LAST WEEK, Wandsworth Council agreed to privatise its refuse collection service with the loss of 216 council jobs. From September it will the multi-national 'Grand (Southend and Eastbourne) and Pritchards (Wandsworth street cleaning) as the main industrial allies in and white collar. But they returned to work, defeated. hundred dust pickets Just coula nol persuade the rest of the Wandsworth district workforce to extend their support. Endless deputations to workers in other boroughs were equally doomed because the union leaderships did not campaign TOT supporting industrial action.

In the two years since Southend privatised cleansing section, these leaders have no advice when faced unese Our perience in Wandsworth nas snown inal.

you cannot compete with tenders offering loss leaders and high exploitanon or workers • you cannot negotiate conditions of yvul work while under threat of industrial action combined with intense community propaganda is the only way the threat will • such action will only Put the tanks in her bedchamber more important than immediate gains Now the ungrateful blacks have gone anchored the three or the too back teams to refuse to play the collection of has-beens and never-weres Fortunately the whole Hill's financial TOUT. 11KC adventure in Amencan st cer, is collapsing around tas succeed if it is spread and co-ordinated on the widest level. Uniot icauerships should prepare all council industrial action Labour Party should adopt a policy of privatisations and make sure all its represenLauves doce Dyl The council has now announced its intention to consider 'seeking tenders' ment. All hell has broken out among sections of the workforce. One group of welfare drivers is seeking job security by trying to take over work currently done by the meals on wicels secuions For the union leaders have refused do about Wand. sworth is paying the price for this wilful neglect

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