NUJ faces injunction
Socialist Organiser1983 1983-12-01Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 3 →
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DEFEND nEWHAMS AN INJUNCTION against the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has been granted in favour of David Dimbleby, to stop the union picketing the Richmond head office of Dimbleby newspapers.
The TV current affairs expert sacked his NGA members and transferred production to T. Bailey Forman in Nottingham.
This is the firm which sacked all NUJ members in 1979 for taking part in the national pay strike.
The NUJ members objected to being part of this scab operation. Dimbleby suspended them, and went on to seek injunctions to try to stop the union picketing.
The ruling seemed to extend the provisions of the Employment Act still further. The judge ruled that it was legitimate for the union to have taken action if Dimbleby's association was with T.Bailey Forman the publisher. But his connection was with T. Bailey Forman the printer.
Same office, same letter heading, same directors, same holding company, same shareholders. But a separate company, and therefore the subject of secondary action.
At the time of going to press, this is being appealed against.
Dimbleby is notoriously anti-union. A paper he part-owns, the Wandsworth Borough News, is one of the few print organisations to recognise an outfit called the Printing Trades Association, a scab outfit much less cosy than its initials.
Meanwhile the leadership of SOGAT has climbed down to a court injunction against the 'blacking' of publications from Robert Maxwell's BPCC empire, which has sacked striking SOGAT members at its Park Royal works. CLASS FCHI SE 12215
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