dustrial action. Since then the heat's been on.
In addition to the Mercury action, the POEU has called vul members selected areas, mostly international business. Management responded out large numbers with the clear intention OI bankrupting the union's fighting fund.
Members were advised written undertaking obey management's instructions, and return to work. The advice of legal experts is that such an undertaking has no torce devona an ordinary contract of employment.
Next BT began to bus engineers to . the affected areas. Pickets were mounted on key buildings Already the alternative has begun appear. the Telecoms unions have pledged their active support - the Union of Communications Workers (UCW) who brought out operators in day solidarity action in London, al end of last week: and the Society of Civil and Public Servants (SCPS) who are currently discussing wnal Torm supportive actions te take.
Public sector unions outside Telecom have also contacted the executive to discuss sympathetic tion. For those like the health service unions, badly hit by Tory policy, the POEU action is a ray of Respectable Red LOOKING like a couple out of a Soviet 'socialist realist'-type poster, Neil and Glenys pose for the the recent The Tories while, stil reeling from the Parkinson affair, are now dreading further revelations of the case at the Old Bailey last week. The Irish Republican has printed the name of the ex-Tory minister who apparently appears in certain photographs.
Eager to take advan. tage of the Tories' problems, Labour are promoting Neil's 'family man' image for all its worth. Well, let's face it it's a much bigger votecatcher than gay rights, isn't it? True Blue DID MARY Whitehouse do quite the right thing at the Conference?
While wave after wave of sex scandals hit the 'Victorian Values delegates watching films of can. nibalism, mutilation, beheading and castration fringe meeting organised by Whitehouse to show how nasty video It can only ' serve to put ideas into their heads.
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