POSTAL STRIKE
Threat to telephones (N.Z.P. A.-Reuter —Copyright) LONDON, Feb 26. Post Office engineers have threatened to give their support to Britain’s striking postoffice workers whose walk-out has paralysed the nation’s postal service for the past five weeks.
The Post Office Engineer’s Union says that its 112,000 members may call a series of token stoppages. This could affect the telephone system which, although run by the Post Office, has managed to keep going up to now.
The postmen are striking in support of a demand for 13 per cent more pay. The Post Office, supported by the Government, refuses to offer more than 8 per cent, and negotiations have broken down repeatedly.
The general secretary of the Post Office Workers’ Union, Mr Thomas Jackson, complained at a mass rally yesterday: “When we went to the Ministry of Employment yesterday, we were kept swinging our legs in a waitroom for two and a half hours while the Minister thought over what had been said.
"I will put up with being treated like a skivvy if I can get a settlement, but I resent it.”
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32542, 27 February 1971, Page 17
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