IN SCOTLAND DEMANDING E35 FOR 35 HOURS, central Scotland busworkers have launched a series of unofficial actions to hack up their claim Although the union officials have their plea has 1 been stopped by pickets aked not 1o pick up whengers. The picket folloned the to make sare this was adhered to kar by the motorway instead of the service route, This action by the rank and file secin to be having some effects. lt now appears that negotiations and once again being set in motion at AND TYNESIDE TYNESIDE BUSMEN have Introduced a freeze on fare increases, The 1300 workers have Introduced this measure to help win their pay dispute with the Type and Wear Public Transport Authority.
The busworkers are also plaering a senes of strikes, in Newcastle bus crews will hold a stoppage cach Saturday. 4t South Shields the huswarkers will hold a series of lightening one and two-day BUT HEWE WERE THE CRUS WEE CU followed by a full-scale stoppage HE TEZE CE BUSTACES intended raising faces on 6 October -is an excellent weapon It denies the PTA thousands of poands of expected ice revenue and helps to win the public to the ac or the busworkers. But the se weapon that can be used in an even pline price rises in food, rents, and lancs 1E Is clear that the Government-be it Tory or Labour have no solution to in la Lion.
Actions by workers in public transport can affectly stop the local an thio tities making the working class pay for SAC -CHORE CHAN By refusing to collect incrozed fares they can unite other workers against. price increases, They can set an example THE LEEDS BUS BRANCH of the TGWU are still insisting that two Sikh busworkers must not wear their A number of busworkers in Bradford and Huddersfield are opposing this racist act by the Leeds branch. David Oates, a Hudderstield busworker, told Red Weekly:
"When I tried to mise my motion 1 was told "We have been warned about someaning like this Branch officials objected that there was not time to discuss it and that we had no tight to interfere in ano iner branches" business. the Leed's Sikh Temple had put them upton bur as there were sekus at the meeting a watered down motion acceptmy turnams in thomasood was passed.
David also stressed to ux the dangers of this racist stand by the union:
*Management must be laughing all the way to the back. We usually lare quite well in tetins of wages negotiations, 885 1108088301 "Officials from Huddersfield, Leeds, Bradlord, and Halifax neet management Do discuss figures and implementation of our new overtime rates. The bossed said we must settle the turham issue firse!
*Leeds and Halias voted then and said they were AGAINST turbans: Hudderfield vored for and Bradford abstained. Hang cent are under some pressure locally to allow Sikhs to wear heen deiayed. This is what racism does we must organise the rank and file as scion as possible.
AM FERRIS
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AND AGAINST RACISM IN LEEDS