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Overdue

Councillors are now claiming as a face-saver that they did not realise that the pay rise was overdue by two years! The NALGO stewards reported this fact many time during the negotiations _ but it took mass action to bring it home to the council.

Nursery workers, while voting to accept the offer, which brings them into line with other boroughs, have decided to continue to work strictly within DHSS ratios, with a no LAST Friday, 20 November, National Union of Hosiery and Knitwear Workers officials ordered an end to the picketing of the Glencroft Knitwear firm in Glasgow, which for the 15 weeks previously had been picketed by 15 women sacked from the firm for joining the The withdrawal of picketing is only the latest stage in the tortuously slow killing off of the dispute by the union full-timers:

*No appeal for mass picketing has ever been made by the union.

*No efforts have been made to ensure effective blacking of • Glencroft exports due for export.

*Moves by the women to launch a boycott of Glencroft products in shops were blocked by officials, who argued that it was illegal to appeal them.

*Throughout the dis officials have cast a ve secrecy over what, if thing, they were up to.

Tribunal

Now, on top of all this, comes the end of picketing, allegedly on the grounds that the key focus of attention must now be the forthcomMany readers tell us they think Socialist Organiser has improved greatly since we went weekly. And our circulation has improved, too.

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But the real purpose of this move is to facilitate the delivery of the death blow to the dispute.

The women are now isolated from each other (and from the revolutionaries who turned up on the picket lines) and it is no longer possible to use the picketing as a focus for building support for the women. post free. That's £9.60 for three months for bundles of 5, and £18 for bundles of 10.

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STAN CROOKE Lane, London N8. Please make cheques payable to Socialist The stage has thus been for the final execution.

The union will take the case to an Industrial Tribunal, lose it (legally they haven't got a leg to stand on) and then call it a day.

Messages/money: c/o NUHKW, 44 Kelvingrove St., Glasgow G3. ways we can continue common struggle. If i who would like to tinue the tradition Women's Voice and together as a group wa to come in with Won Fightback as a group, w: no reason why this sh not be possible, and t be happy to make spac our Steering Commitizz representatives of group.

We would also sug that the sisters Women's Voice help to t the trade union confere and join us in the mol ation for the women's i to work demonstratios June.

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