["We must take steps as individual unions and…]
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"We must take steps as individual unions and the TUC to defend our organisation, our rights and our finances against the legalistic attack." Ken Cameron commented: "we will not accept restrictions on the right to strike. We will continue to use our own procedures to decide how to act.
Geoffrey Drain asserted: 'This persistence in interfering in the internal affairs of unions will continue to be rigorously resisted."
The resistance coming from the Board of Control looks laughable from the small halls. When TG WU members voted to black Atlantic Yarns, a customer of Aire Valley Yarns, to help the workers on strike there, the directors took out an injunction under Tebbit 2 against the local TGWU official Peter Booth. agreed to accept the order. - TGWU policy is to fight Tebbit but when he clambers through the ropes, they take a dive.
In the Lady at Lord John strike in Liverpool, the threat of an injunction under Tebbit 2 led the full time officials to back-pedal on picketing.
At Admin Litho in North East London, NGA members have been on strike for three months because the bosses won't give them a closed shop, insisting they ballot under the provisions of Tebbit 2 - provisions that it is specific TUC policy to boycott.
The members of Admin Litho are supporting the TUC. The TUC are doing precisely nothing to support them.
Verbal resistance is coming