Tax vote

Socialist Organiser no. 167, 23 February 1984 · scan p. 14 · about 378 words

Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 14 →

Read from the scan by machine and not corrected: expect misread words, and now and then a caption or a line from a neighbouring story. For anything you quote, read the scan.

Scan page 14

THE Executive of the Inland (IRSF) decided last week to accept Inland Revenue proposals for new a new technology agreement designed to end the non-cooperation action by West Midlands members involved in a new comprterised Pay-As-YouEarn pilot scheme.

Since January, 438 union members in 14 West Midlands offices have been suspended for refusing to work the system until a no-redundancy agreement had been reached. Despite the failure of a High Court action which eight of them brought against the Inland Revenue in February, they decided to fight on.

Now the Inland Revenue offers to do its utmost to avoid compulsory redundancies and to allow greater flexibility in working arrangements.

But the offer does not contain a cast-iron no reduzdancy guarantee and does not include any concessions on pay or regrading in return for workers operating the new technology. And the untun must still accept 4.000 job does as PAYE computersa•= edended across the i ur beitien 19005 and 1988. By 19e% 1.000 jub losses are expected.

IRSF members will vote this week al workplace meetings on their executive's decision. THIS year's TUC women's conference is in Torquay on March 15 and 16.

Motions before conference will deal with housing, homelessness, assistance for working parents, the health service, and social and welfare payments to women and their dependents.

A new document by the TUC •Women and New Technolog»»; is to be presented to the conference. 1984 has been designated ''WISE Year" (Women into Science and Engineering).

'Democracy Day'

THE TUC have called for a "democracy" week of action for March 24-29 aimed at highlighting the effects of Patrick Jenkins Rates Bill which gives unprecedented powers to central government to impose rate levels on individual local authorities.

The planned official activities will culminate in a national march and rally on Thursday, March 29, designated by the TUC as Democracy Day.

Correction In Socialist Organiser of February 9 a sentence seemed to say that ASLEF has agreed to scrap Kings Cross local agreement 4691. ASLEF has not done this. The point the article made is that the effect of the ASLEF executive shying away from a clear-cut fight is to undermine and destroy local agreement 4691, and others, which the executive says it will defend. Sorry about the ambiguity!