SOGAT calls off boycott

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It further criticises the NEC for deciding on 16 December 1983 to limit NALGO's support for the NGA, which this District believes to be in clear breach of this trade union's policy decided at the 1982 Conference.

This District Council further notes the effects of this decision on NALGO's policies of fighting government proposals and legislation on issues such as trade union rights, cuts, civil defence, rate capping, etc., and agrees to urge the NEC to restore its policy to that of the Conference decision.

In the event of the NEC not following this course, then the District agrees to submit a resolution to Conference instructing them to follow NALGO policies.

NALGO members in Westminster libraries may strike from They have already started refusing to accept fines for overdue books or charges for reserving books, and are balloting on a strike against the Tory council's plan to close three libraries.

The council's environment committee is meeting on February 14, and could reverse the closures. The decisive meeting of the full council is on March 5. Become a supporter of the Socialist Organiser Alliance -. groups are established in most large towns. We ask £1.50 a now been etfectively liquidated under the pressure of court action.

All that is left is talks between the SOGAT leaders and Maxwell over terms for a new printworks to be opened by Maxwell in East London - Maxwell would probably pay it in order to smooth matters over, but Maxwell has denied this.

The court, however, has powers to take the £10,000 straight out of SOGAT funds without seizing the lot. THE TUC has now updated its low pay guidelines which now stand at £98 a week. This figure is based on two-thirds of average male manual earnings.

Although it represents family income which is scarcely above the poverty line it is still considerably more than the wages paid to many workers, including some on Government contracts.

The TUC says that its research shows that low pay is a growing problem and the gap between the highest paid and lowest paid is widening. This Sizewell order placed IN A move that seems to confirn suspicions that the Sizewell I pressurised water nuclear reac tor power station (which thi Central Electricity Generatin Board hopes to begin building is Suffolk in 1986) will be given thr government go-ahead, thi CEGB has already placed a £l: million order (with governmen approval) for steel forgings fo the pressure vessel.

The order has gone in ever though a public inquiry, begu about 13 months ago ane thought to be only half-way through its work, into the futur of the Sizewell B project is stil continuing.

600 more steel jobs go