Grunwick pickets Frank Hansen Jeff Holden, Colin Adams, Paul Franklin - all members of the NUT and Brent East Labour Party APE› General Management Committee were arrested and charged with 'obstruction' whilst picketing on 1 November. Bonuspool And fortunately the protest about low bers.
process workers.
negotiated agreement.
workers' demands:
APEX, recognised.
In CeTenCe of management.
reject this attack most 'dispensable' working class. ing Laboratories in Willesden hit the headlines last week as angry Tories protested at the illegality blacking mounted by the UPW, the management, which has consistently refused to negotiate over the workers' demand for union recognition, was forced to ballot organised bv Arbitration, Conciliation and AdvisUPW then pre empted the parliamentary debate by calling off its solidarity action. UnGrunwick dispute has not been won yet, and the management still has room for manstrike started on 23 August when 200 workers walked out Day and company's sacking of union memThe present rates of pay are £25 for office workers and £28 for This is between CeSSIOn. £15 and £25 less than a nationally Strike Committee bulletin spells out the * The right to belong to a union. ballot. * The right to have their union, * The reinstatement of those who were sacked for joining the union and those who came out on strike in * A decent living wage, proper COWiT. working conditions and an end to with the Trico equal pay strikers and the various international outlets o the company were closed even before the UPW action. But it was the postal blacking which was vital in breaking management's resistance When Red Weekly spoke last week to Kanlesh Gandhi, a member of the strike committee. He was clear that the struggle was far from over. The company have not agreed to anything yet, he said. He explained how 'they are putting out different stories in the factory. They tell workers that they are prepared to accept any union other than APEX.' Even though SIne workers still inside the factory were continuing to come out and support the strike, the management manoeuvre would cre ate problems for the strikers: "It will be difficult to get more people out now. They will think that the company have made some sort of conGandhi explained that he would have wanted the UPW to keep the ban on deliveries until the • ACAS post office workers stood firmly behind us', he said. 'We are disappointed with the decision to call off the ban, but we know that the workers themselves still support us. It is Tom Jackson, the UPW general secretary, who has let us Gandhi is emphatic that the deci