TEG must pay compensation /which might well amount to more than the 0:00,000 recently extracted from the AUEWI 1o Ganeral Aviation Servicus, because of the actions of T&O mam bars it Heathrow Airport, conlim the worst Tears of trade unionists about the Industrial Rebrtions Act Fine with Ibe Con-blech case, ane now over GAS, the most dangerous sections of the Act have bean used to threaten the most basic right of trade unionists - the right to strike. At Con-Mech trade unionists were told that they had failad to forlon the procures laid down by the Act and therefore had no right to strike En this case the NIRC has ruled that because the GAS depute Was not according to the rules of thie Ait, the nilon involied must pry for =ll the losses sustained by the company. The ability of every trade unionist in the country to defend their interests is throatanad by dis decision, There his already been a resporse from some TaG members The South Transport stagers have called on the executive to mobilise the full power of the mombership against this attaeit. The Centrax branch in Newton Abbot, has called on the union to ratula 1o pay the compensation and to mount a national campaign against the ind ustrial Relations Act Those instiatives must be caken up by T&D militants across the country They should demand that their exer utive refines to pay a perny in comp anation and sets the date for a nat tonal stoppage if there is any attempt to wits union funds.
But T&d miltant should not expec their executive to behme differently from the AUEW executive They shauld immediately begin to arganise protest meetinge and demorstrations local AUEW militants, and other workers, to plan a united campaign of ection againet the NIRC