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EDP su EDP STRIKERS in Sheffield are now in their 7th week of picketin on victimisation be management.
The picketing has been successful in turning away deliveries of paper and computer equipment, but taxis are still entering with newly employed scabs.
Last Friday, the weekly strike committee met, and threw out an offer from management that they still had some full time places left and were prepared to re employ four of the sacked strikers. So the strike continues, with picketing organised increase won by the action.
After a confrontation between the woman and the CoHSE branch secretary (who is also a woman) result ed in a scuffle, the branch secretary was sacked. There was an immediate walkout ancillary staff at Newsham, which quickly spread to Alderhey, the Royal, and Mill Road maternity hospital.
The next day, the union members were back at work pending talks with management. This looks like typical sabotage of the action by COHSE officials. The branch secretary is still sacked, and the prospects look grim.
CHRIS ERSWELI ' As far as I can see, we are worse off than we ever were, although we won the decision at the tribunal" said sacked USDAW shop steward Siobhan Lanigan this week.
Rinbhan and 16 others wert sacked by Foyles bookshr: in London for joining he union. For weeks ti y picketed... the make blacking effective, and they were forced to rely on an industrial tribunal.
Siobhan and two others went as test cases to the tribunal. They won. Then Foyles got the reinstate. ment order suspended.
USDAW, having pushed the workers into relying on the tribunal in the first place, has now left them in the lurch by an executive decision not to appeal against the suspension. Too expensive, they say!
Siobhan and Sue Taylor, the two workers who got reinstatement orders, are unemployed and feeling the pinch. But if they get new jobs their case for reinstatement. automatically falls!
Meanwhile Foyles have little to fear. If the reinstatement order is upheld and they still defy it, the worst that, will happen to them is a fine.
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