International Marxist Group Archive

Magazines, bulletins and booklets of the IMG and its forerunners, 1961–1984

Trade union notes: Telegraphists rejoin U.P.W

· The Week Vol. 1, No. 25, 18 June 1964 · p. 5 of the scan · 116 words

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In 1962 a number of overseas telegraphists, based mainly in London, broke away from the Union of Post Office Workers and formed the National Association of Overseas Telegraph Officers. The reason they gave for this move was that they considered that they had no voice in the union. Now, after intervention by the TUC, a year's nezotiation has led to the decision by the NAOTO to dissolve itself and advise all its members to rejoin the UPW. Announcing this, Mr. Oswald Williams, chairman of the rebel associa= tion, said that the UPW had gone a long way in altering its machinery to give overseas telesraphists representation. The decision took effect last week,

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