TUC urges TNT drivers not to cross pickets
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RA 1)F.S UNION Congress leas this week aimed at :opping TNT drivers crossig printers picket lines have ighlighted TNT's powerful osition in the bitter and deeloping dispute between ewspaper proprietor Rupert 4urdoch and his workforce,
The TUC's general council as urged the Transport and ;metal Workers' Union to :.11 its members — obviously leaning TNT — not to cross filthl picket lines and un
dermining the print unions' cause.
TNT drivers have enabled Murdoch's four titles, The Times, Sunday Times, Sun and News of the World to be brought out of the new printing plant at Wapping, East London, and delivered to the rest of the country, so thwarting plans For widescale disruption by the print unions.
TGWU national officer Jack Ashwell told CM that the union would do all it can to persuade TNT's drivers to stop all deliveries. He said he hoped that the drivers would heed the call, although, when pressed, he could not be any more certain.
He said that TNT drivers crossing picket lines put the TGWU in a poor position. "It's scab labour inside (the electricians' union) and the TGWU outside, by-passing long-established distribution networks," he said.