Engineers' strike wins

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WORKERS at Glendale Engineering, Hythe Road, London NW10, still need support. They have been on strike for eight weeks to demand union recognition for the AUEW. Blacking is vital to win this dispute; also needed is help on the mass pickets (every Monday from 7am) and money (to the Strike Committee c/o Mick Woods, 76 Auste House, Cambridge Road, London NW6.

Liverpool dockers have now decided to support NUPE strikers at the city centre market by blacking action.

The strikers - market cleaners _ are demanding that the Liberal-controlled Liverpool City Council should drop plans to give the cleaning contract to private enterprise. Council leader Trevor Jones is, however, obstinate, and is now talking about 'privatising' cleaning for all the markets.

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The Council Joint Shop Stewards' Committee has Meanwhile, NALGO action to black work on plans • to privatise street cleaning and housing management is continuing.

The council has not. yet followed Birmingham's example in threatening disciplinary action. from SO, c/o 28 Middle Lane, 18 8PL. 30p plus 20p p&p. ENGINEERS on the postal side in the POEU last week won a victory which should reverberate through the whole union.

These engineers, who form barely 10% of the POEU membership (being outnumbered by the telecoms engineers) have been facing an increasingly hard management since the Post Office was split into British Telecom and postal services.

The POEU National Executive called a one-day strike of all POEU members on the postal side for Monday 23rd, specifically against postal management's decision to scrap the agreement in force before the split on 24 hour rota cover on Bank and public holidays. It was also more generally directed against postal management's drive to scrap ALL pre-split agreements..

The threat the forced the management to concede the issue just three days before the action was due.

This victory should also strengthen the postal engineers standing within the POEU, and help to put an end to sell-outs such as when the POEU leaders steered through a pay deal at this year's conference which left the postal engineers with a smaller pay rise than their counterparts on the telecoms side.

It should also help their struggle to remain within the POEU - many postal engineers fear that the union leaders want to ditch them.

And it will aid telecoms engineers who are pushing for industrial action against the privatisation of British Telecom the greatest threat the POEU has faced for years.

RICKY HOUSTON

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