not once, not twice, but three times!
clockwork.
This has brought home to the 15 million workers in the country whose paypackets do not hav even this limited safeguard the urgency of witning such protection The Pay Board has ruled that only threshold agreements negotiated before the noxt set of ligures ate published in late June will be eligible for full back dated payment of the threshold increases So for many trade unionists the fight is on to toroe this concession out of their bosses within the next tew weeks The white-collar unwa APEX is calling for the negotiation of threshold agreements to cover all its members. and is reported to be considering a series LAST WEEK brought a big shock for Britain's bosses, as the cost-of-living figures triggered the 'threshold agreements" negotiated under Phuse 3 The 5 million workers who were able to win this concession cius had the of one-day stoppages to back up this demand.
In Coventry workers at the engteeerine firm of Wickman's on strike far a back-dated threshold acceement covuring the entire workforce -are and mobilise support Moses are already anderway in thu Caventry factories of the GEC comthe company's 16,000 manual workers.
All workers clearly need immediute protection of their wages against inflabian. The TUC should be making immediate plans for concerted industrial strike-to force all employers to grunt immediate threshold agreements. They Lection a extended to over all forms of state benefit dole, social scurity. supplementary benefits, pensions and student grants.
This is the call that should go up from all quarters of the trade union movement. In the absence of such decisive action by the leaders of the labour movement, militants should work towards the maximum degree of anired and coordinated action in the strupple for these claims.
Joint plans for national action should be made between all the major unions, joint meetings should he held on the district evel, trades council Should be planning local contensaces on the light to deland wages against infletion, and joint shop stewards meetings should immediately be held to plan action in individual workplaces.
Through action such as this threshoki groomonts can be extended to the entire working ciass, and a major step taken Lowards estahlishing full protection for workine people's OF WAGES!' BY ERNEST MANDEL, pp: 4-5 with their struggle SEE FOR A SLIDING SCALE
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10 per cent rise in the cost-of-living over the past seven months partly offset by an extra 1.20 in their paypackets. With the cost-of living rising at the present rate, the threshold will now be tripped at least once a monch liko