Strikes in the Soviet Union
Sir, — An otherwise perceptive article by Bernard D. Nossiter, “American view of Britain’s plight,” (February 13) is seriously flawed by its last paragraph, a gratuitous reference to the Soviet Union which is utterly false. In a personal conversation, the two Soviet women delegates from the Soviet Chemical and Petrochemical Workers’ Union, Mesdames Galina Sukhorutchenkova and Vera Sisneva, in Christchurch, at the invitation of tha> Canterbury Rubber Workers’ Union, commenting on Bernard Nossiter’s article, assured me that there are no laws in the Soviet Union prohibiting strikes, that the concept, “illegal strikes” is totally incomprehensible to Soviet .workers, who can and do go on strike, but only as a last resort. Woe betide the factory director misguided enough to violate labour and safety codes who defies the authority of the trade unions. He could find himself severely penalised or removed from his post. — Yours, etc., M. CREEL. February 14, 1979.
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