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Friday June 4: one-day strike by health

That's the schedule for the next couple of A working class response should demand: workers for their pay claim. Monday June 7: veeks. It shows that will and confidence for a *Wages to be protected against inflation by scheduled starting day for industrial action by ightback is growing in the working class - adequate pay rises and clauses guaranteeing Find that our movement's leadership is doing cost-of-living rises each month in line with a Tuesday June 8: another one-day strike on lothing, absolutely nothing, to weld the fightNHS pay. The Yorkshire and Humberside *Reverse the cuts: automatic inflationTUC, and other trade union bodies, are calling The decisions which have scattered the protection for the funds of the public services for supporting strikes by other workers. iction across so many separate days can only in line with a cost index controlled by the Thursday June 10: The TUC 'Union Day' eflect a preference for action by demoralisagainst Tebbit's Bill. The TGWU national ng dribs and drabs - less risky, more comfordockers' delegate meeting has called for able, than a concerted challenge to the strikes on this day, both against the Bill and *Stop Tebbit's Bill. Defend the right to for the dockers'o wn demands on jobs. Across But where the official leadership ducks strike, to take solidarity action, and to picket. the country Trades Councils and other labour sut, it is the job of socialists to fight for an The current union conferences show a movement organisations will be organising ilternative. We must be campaigning to pull militant feeling on a wide range of fronts.

Together the action into a united fight, build- SOGAT and TASS have called for the TUC to In addition, the Fire Brigades Union and ng links at local level, demanding that the break its links with the Tories in the NEDC the NSMM conferences have called for TUC inion leaders seek maximum coordination. and other tripartite committees. The UCATT 24-hour strikes against Tebbit; National Union At the same time we must argue against conference rejected all varieties of incomes of Seamen general secretary Jim Slater has ittempts to use 'unity' as a cop-out, like the policy, overturning the executive on this issue. made the same call: and APEX has called for a VIJPF Execntive's refusal to imnlement its In the CPCA avantive alentinno thara uno a day of action against the Tory Bill. (The TUC inion conference's all-out strike call on the is very deliberately not calling June 10 a day grounds that all the unions must act together. The gap between this militant feeling and of action). None of these unions have named a The Tory government's policy of cuts, the scattered action called by the leaderships day, but militants should argue for action on losures, and cash limits, designed to boost underlines the centrality of the fight in the the day of protest already planned - June 10. profits at the expense of services and public whole labour movement - unions and Labour On Wednesday June 16 a one-day strike by sector workers, is a common factor facing Party - for democracy, for election of the South Wales miners, in solidarity with nealth workers, railworkers, and others. officials, 'and for new, accountable leaderthe health workers, is due to follow. The Tebbit Bill is a threat to all workers.

the NUR on rail pay and closures.

rallies and demonstrations. THE FINAL two days of last week's NUPE Conference were taken up with the Biennial Rules Revision Sesseion.

Delegates had the annortunity to revise the MYRIVUILI rulebook and also to put on the arguments about accountability and fell back on • touching speeches about how we could trust our full-timers, after all, weren't they the best in the trade union movement? jack into a coordinated offensive.

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for hospitals, not a penny for dramatic shift to the left. The A Mobili : Unir June 10. C must ising Co: on Right 'ontact: iMON SE •DAYSTRIKE!

mmittee for the Defence of ts is campaigning for action on 28 Middle Lane, London N8.