S&K back i back on picket line
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STRIKING Asian workers'at the Sandhar and Kang cash and carry in Coventry last week returned to the picket lines and restarted High Court proceedings to try to reverse the injunction decision made against them several weeks ago.
The strikers believe that the court decision may be in their favour, despite the lessons of previous disputes which showed that trade union solidarity and pressure on the local union officials are the ways to win - not confidence in the legal system.
The local TGWU district committee. meeting voted overwhelmingly not to recommend that the strike be made official. The leading local bureaucrats argued this on the grounds that the strikers acted against their advice, and several district committee members who had assured the strikers of their support refused to back the call to make it official.
However, the strikers have decided to build further links with the Birmingham S&K workers and the Asian women strikers at Randi's, also in Birmingham. They intend to hold public meetings and a picket of the regional T&G offices, too.
Messages/money: S&K strike committee, c/o 88 King George's Ave, Coventry The campaign was heartened by the response of the Birmingham and Oxford strikers, who totally rejected the sell-out proposed by CPSA president Kevin Roddy in person.
The section executive committee must now surely accept what the Socialist Caucus and the SO civil service group have been arguing - and spread the strikes, taking in any fight on new procedures, for example the postal claim form; as part of a united national fight on cuts and job losses as a whole.
If this lead is not given by the SEC, then there is a real need for a national delegate conference of rank and file activists and workplace representatives to meet and discuss spreading the strikes. Our group will be pleased to hear trom any other anti-Rayner groups. * Nottingham Campaign against Rayner, • /o Steve Batllemuch, 1202 Victoria Centre, Nottingham.
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Socialist Organiser no. 108 November 11 1982 Page 15