Printers call off strike
NZPA-Reuter London Britain’s most powerful print union called off a planned national strike yesterday after a court ban and the threat of heavy fines and claims for damages. A spokesman said that union leaders had decided to suspend the strike during a meeting at their headquarters in Bedford, central England. The National Graphical Association had told its 132,000 members to strike for 24 hours to protest
against fines totalling £ 675,000 ($1,489,600) imposed under the Conservative Government’s new laws curbing union power. The strike would have stopped publication of national newspapers and brought the rest of the industry to a halt for 24 hours. But the owners of national and provincial newspapers won court orders outlawing the stoppage, which arises out of a dispute between the union and a northern give-away newspaper group.
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Press, 15 December 1983, Page 6
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