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COUNCIL manual workers' unions immediately rejected a pay offer bf 3 per cent made at negotiations last Thursday, December 9.
The line of the local authority negotiators — controlled by a Conservative majority — was that the government's squeeze on council finance made any more impossible. New talks will be held in January.
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But management have yet to move from their refusal to reinstate all the strikers.
The pickets are getting support from staff at other London bookshops. They have organised a benefit social for Tuesday 21st (see 'What's On'), and ask for donations to be sent c/o ACTSS, 173 Clapbam Rd, London: SWY0QF. Cheques payable to J A Cook and R PD Hobbs, Stanford Strike Account.
by Jane