plant director again attempted to victimise the same worker by taking him off his OD. AWC O T press it uncertain whether the Cowley workers will stay out. short of a few bob • their twelve family cars include two Mercedes Lotus But the strikers are short of cash. They get no strike pay because they 'haven't been in ine union long enough' to: P.S.
Nusil Raindi Transport House, conulon DIrKe Committee, 9-17 Victoria Street, West Bromwich The victimised three Birmingham social work departments.
three NALGO scrutinised.
at the expense tober by their union to go back to work.
Now Wednesday biggest branch meeting ever, discuss the case of the sacked workers.
for all out action.
ficial backing to all-out action.
to work.
strike however. Pickets of Snow Hill House the central office have been organised, strike action.
ail out action and seem more interested in leader Neville Bosworth.
urging the social workers to not only campaign for a yes vote among council workers but to lobby the NALGO executive and demand support for all out action.
local Labour resolutions of support coming from Sparkhill and Handsworth Constituency Labour Parties. Socialist Challenge has invited Dave Benlow from the Wandsworth dust dispute to discuss the lessons of fighting privatisation.
action but the wider the case of the social workers is spread, the more support that is built up in the labour movement for resistance victimisation, cuts quicker will Councillor Bosworth and his ilk be shown the door.
alone it would be a set back for every other battle against privatisation and we can exect to see plenty of those as the Tories wield their spending axes across the country. PRICE WATERHOUSE is a firm of efficiency scrutineers. Not content with recommending the closure of Debenhams in Birmingham City Centre this outfit won a contract from the new Tory council to scrutinise the But Price and Waterhouse and the Tory council got a shock when they decided to sack members who refused to be Rejecting the council's money saving drive, services, 9,500 NALGO members walked out in support of their three colleagues. But the strikers were told on 22 OcNovember the NALGO members have booked the Aston Villa football ground for what will probably be the so they can Socialist Challenge supporters have been heavily involved in campaigning for a yes vote But it's hard convincing council workers to come out on strike two weeks after they've been sent back by their union. The NALGO executive seems frightened of the idea of all out action and has stated again and again that it's not going to give of.
Nor has it been too generous with strike pay for the social workers out on strike, which has meant that after two weeks a small percentage of social workers have started to trickle back The Social Work Shop Stewards Committee, with SC supporters, Socialist Workers Party members and Communist Party members involved has been able to organise an active attempts have been made to get mass meetings called in other departments to put the case. The committee has however been continually blocked by the strike operations committee which represents the stewards from the different departments, most of them not taking This committee is firmly under the thumb of locai NALGO fulltimers who are not calling for seeking favours from right wing Tory council Socialist Challenge stewards have been Stewards have also been urged to speak at Party meetings and have had It's to be a tough battle to get all-out strike and privatisation the If the social workers are left to fight this one