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Although the deal is well below the full claim, and leaves comparability, it has opened the door for the gas and electricity workers whose Pipeline and have been re claims are now tered 4 per cent.
The union leaders have no excuse for not going tor the full claim.
The water workers have shown that the Tories al C not invincible. The negotiators took a harder the employers illc because the workers occupied the ACAS offices.
The start of a rank and file organstion, seen in the all-London strike committee and the contacts made with other Darts COT the country around the ACAS lobby, now need to be built on. The deal in¿ludes some productivity strings which are to be negotiated in the next few months, such as flexible working and further effisicily licasulco The water workers will have to be on their guard Sacialist Challenge : 4 March 1983- page 2*: THE UNITY and militancy of the water workers has paid off despite a Tory hard line and a weak union leadership. The settlement gives 9 to 10 per cent over 12 months, and 12 per cent over to make sure the deal is not undermined by job-loss and worsened working conditions. a nationally organised rank and file capable of taking the initiative the comparability claim fought again next year. it can also ensure that any deal is put to a full ballot of the membership and not merely accepted on their behalf by the officials.
The Tories will take this defeat lying down. They will now move against water workers by disbanding the national localise negotiations. Yeb localise negotiations.
DITS strikes in essential services cannot be treatea as simply 'sour grapes'.
The union leaders have done nothing to stop his, attacks the unions and this gives him the signal to go ahead.
This is why rank and file 1s now needed.
is needed On the facing page Ted Knight, whole parties.
Norwood's chairperson explains why he wants his party to accept the expulsion of Militant editors Clare Doyle and Lyn Walsh. He argues that the alternative is disbandment and the expulsion of