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Socialist Organiser1983 1983-10-13Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 2 →
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VRITS are beginning to fly as the employers start to test Three weeks ago the National Union of Journalists faced a contempt f court action and possible sequestration of its assets for its policy of Now, as the same industrial action at the Stockport Messenger newsaper grinds on, the NGA is being haulted into the courts on Friday 5th. The employer is now seeking an injunction to prevent the union iforming advertisers of the recognition dispute - presumably as a preMore significant, however, is the court action threatened by the Proct Mercury consortium against the 'secondary' industrial action being irried out by the Post Office Engineering Union in its fight against priitisation. Mercury are seeking an injunction to end the union boycott: it they could also pursue claims for damages, or demand action over intempt of court if such an injunction is refused.
But the key factor in implementing such legislation is the union adership: in the NUJ, the National Executive Committee stood firm, id prepared to defy the courts. If the POEU leadership does the same, Id mobilises full support, then the law can be broken - just as the ry limitations on picketing have been brushed aside by 1000-strong cket lines at Nigg Bay in Scotland and the Esso strike in If there is any climbdown by the POEU in the face of these legal reats, the employers and the Tory government will return strengthenI to demand more and still more concessions, surrenders and This same message must be taken up by militants in every union, deanding that the TUC leaders stop their craven crawling to Norman bbit and mobilise the real strength of the trade union movement to he Prior and Tebbit anti-union legislation.
MRS THATCHER took the Tory Party by storm this week when slidarity with the print union, the NGA.
she declared that the programme to restore Victorian values to Britain was bang on target. ide to seeking damages. In a public endorsement of the behaviour of Cecil Parkinson she singled him out at the politician who had done most to capture the real flavour of Victorian morality.