POSTAL WORKERS’ RISK

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21172, 13 August 1943, Page 4

POSTAL WORKERS’ RISK

AFFILIATION WITH T.U.C. GOVERNMENT WARNING (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Aug. U. The application of the Union of Post Office Workers for affiliation to the Trades Union Congress is the subject of a statement issued from No. 10 Downing Street. , . The application, it has been stated, will be considered at the forthcoming conference in September. . ~ The statement says: It is important that members of the service should realise in advance the position m which they, would, be piaced if an association of which they are affiliated members were to. strike. The effect of the law is as follows; If an . association of which established civil servants are members becomes so affiliated, the result follows that the warning contemplated by the TradeDisputes and Trade. Unions Act 192 must, be given to every established civil servant who is a member of the association. If, at the end of one month thereafter it is established that the civil servant has not resigned membership of the association he automatically becomes, in the words of the Act, ‘disqualified from being a member of the civil service. This has the effect that be loses this established position and all his accumulated pension rights are forfeited, it is the Government’s position to state this position clearly and the duty ol the civil service organisations to bring it to the notice of their members.