The Bookcentre and the Unions

Patrick Mulrennan raised the next issue. Why was the Victoria Bookcentre open on Thursday and Friday when the Shop Assistants Union and it's members had voted for strike action on those days? The reply was that no union members were employed in the shops during the strike, and that managerial staff had taken their places that managerial staff had served customer, and when told that they had, said that virtually amounted to strike-breaking, for managerial staff did not normally serve customer. Even if serving customers was not strikebreaking, a view was expressed that the Bookcentre remaning open contradicted the spirit of the strike. There was a time when the University had had a chance to actively support the Unions and it didn't. A motion was passed to the effect that this Association calls upon the Victoria Bookcentre to honour the actions of the shop assistants in the future and that SRC recommends it's strong disapproval to the Board at the actions of the Bookecentre during the recent strike.

The meeting fell apart at 2. 02 pm. with lamentably-little violence sex or anything disgusting like that. Let's hope it will be a better showing next week.

Rire Scotney.