DAVE BURN, Islington NALGO shop steward and Executive member of the union's 1,500 strong A special branch meeting voted for a half-day strike on the morning of 26 November against the cuts and freez ing of vacancies by the Council, and then another half-day strike in the afternoon in support of the lobby. In the morning we will be leafleting shopping areas and housing estates about the effect of the cuts on working people. In the afternoon we will be joining the demonstraOur decision to strike will be a big boest to the campaign against cuts and unemployment. For local government workers the two can't be separated. In London, for instance, we've got hundreds of frozen posts, which mean both a dec line in the standards of public services to working people and jobs left empty that could be filled frem the dole queues.
I should add tbat the London Distriet of NALGO has also decided to support the demonstration, despite me pateri bleatings of our national leaders' to wait for a 'properly organised' demonstration and not 'rock the boat for the Wilson Government.
YIANNIS PSARAS, Secretary of 1/948 Branch of the Transport 8 General Workers Union, which covers 300 mainly Cypriot work ers in the two confectionery factories of T. Pittas Ltd:
she branch voted to orcanise a one-hour stoppage and to invite the T&G -Henional orcaniser to come dono tor a full discussion on the fight against unemployment. We are supporting the lobby, and as many of us as possible will be going along in person.
Immigrant workers are always hit hardest by unemployment because they
Blacking Philip Morris