Press forward for Peoples'
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that the TUC General What happened mittee pamphlet, 10p plus postage from LAC, 194 Dawlish Road, Birmingham 29 3139*54" w: tiula pisoi land-London People's March for Jobs in 1983.
Intensive lobbying for the concept of the march won first NALGO and then TGWU official support, and eventually carried the day despite the continued opposition of Len Murray.
Image Murray's objection, like that of Labour's Parliamentary leadership, is that a mass demonstration of this type in election year could roct the boat by mobilising workers on the streets and thus 'spoiling the image' of the Labour With the strength of the pro-march lobby confirmed, the only problem now in striding forward on the campaign is that no concrete proposals for the March exist: not even a tentative date has teen suggested by the originators of the idea on the North West TUC.
To speed up the process of arriving at such plans, and ensure that the March does take place, union branches, Trades Councils and Labour Parties should carry resolutions endorsing the call for the Scotland-London march, agreeing to set up local campaign bodies controlled by the rank and file members. and insisting that it go ahead regardless of the date of •the general election.
wak the she i publicity function out to consultants - and the unions concerned took industrial action in protest, a court might decide that that action was really a disagreement over government policy and not wholly or mainly connected with jobs or other listed issues. -The Act also makes it unlawful for workers in Britain to take action in support of workers in other countries, unless the British workers could be affected by the outcome of the dispute abroad, i.e. unless they can show some direct self-interest.
But even more insidious is the Act's green light to employers to sack union activists in certain circumstances. Under the new legislation, during a strike an employer can 'let it be known' that strikers who do not return hy a given däie will all get the sack in the hope that the less well kas. done