La hole in Phase 3 After a militant three-week unofficial strike, 250 workers in the Kilbagie Paper Mill near Allon, Scotland, will return to work this Sunday with their employers, the international Gestetner company, committed to negotiating a substantial wage CESANE.
The demand of the strikers was for a 15 a week increase across the board, which represents 2.35 on top of the already negotiated national claim. The SOGAT Area Organiser tried to persuade them to go back, and the union refused to recognise the strike.
To this prossure was added management refusal to negotiale while the stoppage continued. But this previcualy non-militant workforce refused to budge.
However, a mass meeting on B April was told that, affer contacts hetween the union bead oftice and the Gestelier company, the management was propared to concede a sebstantial The mosting agreed to resume work, but hound their chairman and secretary who were to parucipato in nerotistions in London, not to accept less than 14.
Fed Weekly 12 April 1974 Page 2 The National Association of Local Government Officers is escalating its action for the £400 London weighting allowance, following Michael Foot's refusal to ratify an interim agreement on the claim.
Five branches have carried out selective strikes and on 17 April a further four-Wandsworth. Southwark, Newham and Havering-will follow. Meanwhile Lewisham, Redbridge, Hillingden, Brent, and Lambeth will ban overtime, and refuse to work with agency staff. Strike action is heing extended to abour five ciectricity branches.
NALGO members are being asked not to work in polling stations or on counting votes during the forthcoming local elections, and other unions are being asked to support this.
are involved in some form of action, the struggle remains fragmented. Strikes are only taking place in the union leadership is making no attempt to unite or generalise them.
comes from local agreements with has rejected such a deal, bur Havering Trades Council is now pressing for the local council to pay £186 direct to the branch. This kind of manoeuvre could be used to prevent the devclopment of an all-London struggle.
But although 25,000 members isolated departments or sections, and Whion hureaucrats.
LOCAL AGREEMENTS A further danger of fragmentation individual boroughs, Islington brancis ALAN BENNETT