[-we can still unite and win! Rail carve-up…]
Socialist Organiser1982 1982-07-01Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 1 →
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-we can still unite and win!
Rail carve-up, page 2; health service solidarity, page 3 all-out indefinite strike against British Rail's miserable pay offer of 5% five months late and with strings. ASLEF leader Ray Buckton had said he was sure ASLEF would be backing the NUR strike.
The developing mobilisation could have beaten back the Tories' policy of cutting wages and services. It could have threatened the survival of the governmènt. Workers were beginning to talk about a general strike.
UP tion | working with any NUR scabs.
BLOW No. 3: Browbeating by the press, and manoeuvres by general secretary NUR conference into calling Sid Weighell, pushed the the nurses. off the rail strike.
BLOW No. 4: A circular from the TUC health services committee talked of "inten- leaders in steel, coal, and the action" on July 19-21 - but sive nationwide industrial power industry - even rightwingers issued firm made no official strike call, instructions for blacking in nor any mention of strike support of the NUR, ASLEF and NUR leaders continue BUT the struggle con- with petty tit-for-tat tactics outh
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Socialist Organiser no 9! July 11982 Page.?.... — RAIL CARVE-UP.
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