Another picket was held last Saturday-this time of the Tower Hotel in South Kensington, which is much used by travellers to and from that in the Labour -intensive local government sector the cuts must neavny erode boun me nvme standaras and obs or coun cil employees. Ine Labour lett nas opposea ine cuts in words. but not a single Labour councillor has broken the employers' ranks to call for support for the NALGO claim. Their unwillinness to mooluse workers avainst me sociar contract leaves them with no choice but to accept the cuts and attack the living standards of local government workers in practice.
As local government workers have little economic power, une way to win the claim is by comong the pouricar ampact of a united, national strike by 400,000 council workers in defence of living standards and the social services with the current struggles of other workers - especially the rail workers.
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However the NALGO leadership is already showing signs that it has no intention of leading such a struggle. In a letter to branen secretaries on z June, NALU General secretary Geoffrey Drain admitted that a full stoppage of work is "probably the only meaningful action in national context in current circumstances. However. he then went on to outline a plan of action which falls far short of this - a one-day stop, page followed by a strike at only ten local councils with a further ten branches being called out every week.
Drain's plan would leave the most militant sections on strike and isolated for weeks on end, as happened with the Islington branch during the campaign over the London Weightine allowance last vear. WE DEMAND FLY TO OPEN VISITS, IRISH FREE STATE ASSOCIATION FREE WORST ACCESS TO AND JAILS
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