Bury Tories' plans!
Socialist Organiser1983 1983-03-10Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 6 →
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Vice Chair - Grant sub-committee Bob Cant LCGR SPEAKERS FROM:
Lesbian Line Visible Lesbian Gay Young Sociali ON Wednesday March 2 the town centre of Bury in Lancashire was swarming with groups of people wearing armbands.
They were the official pickets of the joint unions, who were out on one day strike in protest at the Tory Council's proposal to sell =* ite retise collection public.
The most impressive thing was the solidarity that wörkers were displaying in coming out for the bins. It revealed seething distrust and suspicion about the Tories' intentions towards all the departments.
Members of NALGO, NUPE, AUEW and GMWU were unanimous in their lack of faith in the Council to abide by agreements. The latest example was the decision of the Council leader, Albert Little, to scrap the negotiations about possible savings that the workers were prepared to make ($400,000, involving 60 redundancies!) and offer the refuse service to private tender.
Most people think he is ='erested less in 'savings' ed that secrei at ==*= been going on for some time between Tory Centrat Office and Albert, and that they've been told to speed it up.
Quarrel
People in Bury have no quarrel at all with the present system of • refuse disposal and are likely to object to most of the panposed systems deterioration in service. The bin men, however; are fed up with the messing about they've had over the past year and a half, and (as the offer to cut 60 jobs shows) are not likely to put up a strong fight unless supported by the other workers and the Labour This week's action shows iba: a tremendous potential ThE:
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We need to bull i= this dissatisfaction with a determination to prevent any of our services being cut or privatised. NALGO members nationally are already in dispute and refusing to use cars because of a cut in allor ances There IS the possibility oi a fight-back. Let's go.
Sue Arnall
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