Палін +45H = NEW NUJ FOR A MARCH TO WAPPING & A MASSIVE NATIONAL RALLY OPPOSITE 'FORTRESS WAPPING AT 9. 00. pm.
THE MAGNIFICENT resistance of the sacked News International workers is beginning to tell at Murdoch's Wapping fortress. After the gimmicky offer of the old Gray's Inn Road plant to the sacked workers failed to dent their resolve, Murdoch has now suggested across-the-board redundancy pay and compensation as a way to resolve the lock out.
Quite correctly, responded by insisting that the key to any solution is the re-recognition of the print unions and full reinstatement.
Moreover, the pressure in Wapping is now building up to the extent where some of the scab journalists working there are themselves considering calls for action. The Sunday Times and News of the World NUJ chapels are calling on its officers to organise a ballot for strike action if no significant concessions have been made to the unions by 30 April. Such proposals would increase only if the NUJ reverses its measures against those journalists in the tortress ignoring their union instructions to join other workers on the picket Meanwhile, SOGAT, are presently being ballotted at various distribution centres around the country to take boycott action of the News International titles.
Labour movement
tributing to this sort of changing mood amongst print workers themselves.
May Day can massively re-enforce the confidence of the workers to take action. And what better way to celebrate international labour day than closing down Wapping!
THIS is a battle we can't afford to lose. The stakes are far too high to leave this to the national leaderThe crux of this matter is not just that 5,500 workers have been sacked for taking industrial ac tion in defence of their livelihoods. Nor is it the se questration of the union funds — where for the first time we have seen the Tory laws in their full glory.
No two weeks to purge the contempt, the boot went is a national dispute. Take the fight to the rest of Fleet Street.
Despite Express debacle use this as the catalyst to trigger us into action When was the last time workers accepted inferior conditions in SECTIS Fleet Street? The writing is on the wall. We must stop the retreat and fight back, or see our industry deunionised. One thing is for certain, with the righ policies we can win this one and turn back the tide.
The morale of the strikers 1S high. After eleven weeks the confidence is growing. Mur doch, after weeks of refusing to make any kind of ofhowever, union officials have executive's positions and take disciplinary members of the largest print union, support has been vital to conaDOU MOVCHICHL aCLVILICS aLOuL Ter. is torced into publicity style proposal to up his fading credibility.
Build the campaign now. The support groups crucial •LU the 'boycott' the teeth it needs, to picket the local newsagents depots.
Mass picketing can onsolidarity of the succeed with zIne movement. Come down to Stop Murdoch once and the momentum will grow A 24 hour strike of the national print essential to show we mean business. Put the pressure the leadership, tell them what is at stake.
On the EETPU, that is Hammond, we must call for the TÚC to take the proper course. No more shilly shallying. Throw them out before they grow strength amd simply walk r movement do the the labour movement the middle.
Let's build the support groups, the confidence of the strikers and take the struggle out to the movement. And let's win: Jobs not compensation!
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