International Marxist Group Archive

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

Unions Shocked by Picket Injunction

· The Week Vol. 7, No. 5, c. 2 February 1967 · p. 6 of the scan · 124 words

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Trade unionists at all levels are expressingtheir opposition to the court decision to grant an injunction against pickets in the Swmley dispute (see last week's issue), Stewards from the Myton site,who are also on strike, have volunteered to take the place of "writ-bound" Sunley pickets, Trade unionists from all over London have done the same, Mr, George Lothian, general secretary of the Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Workers, said after a meeting with the four other wmions concerned that the AUBTW was providing solicitors! services for three pickets when the main injunction is heard on February 3, Speaking on January 25th he said "We're contesting the injunction because as a general principle we object to employers running to the courts for rulings against picketing."

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