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hollow promises of escalat- to get people out, to build The decision of the Elec- keep the health workers out tricians to carry out their till we win." SEAN Gerahty, secretary of the London Press branch of the EETPU, will appear in court on Friday. The press barons of Fleet Street are demanding he be sent to Jail.
If he is imprisoned, the whole labour movement must demand that the TUC call a general strike.
Since the NHS pay struggle began tens of thousands of workers have taken sympathy strike action. But the Tory news proprietors have once again been the first onto the warpath against trade unionism.
In May 1980, the same employers obtained an injunction against a one-day strike by Fleet Street workers in protest at James Prior's anti-union Bill. The strike went ahead regardless - but no attempt was made to penalise the union leadership. A COHSE militant spoke about her General Secretary's antics.
"IT is absolutely scandalous that Spanswick, acting for the Health Services Committee, should meet with leaders of the print unions and negotiate a back room deal to sell out one of the major promises of solidarity yet seen in this dispute.
It smacks of the TUC tactics used to sell out ASLEF. His actions are now shouting out his feelings about this dispute. No one should give any credibility whatenever to Snanswick's Va D ing the struggle. strike is a correct response to Spanswick.
It is un to us as workers the solidarity action and to