Labour councillors District members have voted to step up the campaign by resopition at the 24 Apri adopting council meeting.
Now ein tse campaign Cirry on the fig ha. T his carry on the fight.
mean that the Labour group splits and the vote is not carried on tack on jobs and services next year.
jobs and services.
In Newham, which has a massive Labour majority, the group voted on 15 April for a 20 per cent rate rise. It also volea lo ena tne victlisa tion of NALGO convenor Bar This followed an inten- Gray sive campaign within NAI.GO and the local nut ber or one-dav sunkes The campaign however dantucu the SLADOH group.
council because of Labour detectors.
This issue must be faced up to. Only bi tempting to continue the LallVay the Labour Party retain any kind of credibility for Cre Hewet fight in future.
This is more important than the spurious 'unity' of the group. AS NEWHAM Labour council's fight against ratecapping sinks into a quagmire of creative accounting and cutbacks, the way is being paved for a savage atThe Labour group, which could not unite to confront the Tories, now looks set to unite against any section of the labour movement with the political will to defend It was clear that NALGO would be in the forefront of resistance cuts. To ensure that in the future it will be impossible lor NAbuv lo carry oul such campaign, counculors were urged to trv to stop NALGO addressing ward meetings.
If this should prove impossible, councillors were to make sure that the 'tru picture' from management was also given to the ward councillor put the group's s position in a nut shell. "There are lies, damned lies and NALGO allegaCouncillors then voted to retuse ally further most immediate ana serious allack was lc give the chair of social ser vices the green light to sack residential social workers, for attending shop all( SaCK stewards who undertook union activity without per. mission manage The union activity luclll extends to talking about the union with someone else social work steward has been docked pay for discussing union activity with another steward. Failure The attack, which was led by a right wing coun. cillor, has been supported by the 'soft' left and ever some of the hard left - all of whom voted originally not to set a rate.
The failure the council to fight the Tories has put them in the position of administering the cuts. That inevitably means confrontation wilh une most muldal sec tions of the council workforce.
The choice facing Labour councils is fight the Tories or fight the local government unions. Newham appears to have opted for the latter.