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...retaliation, APEX organized a picket outside the plant. For months Mrs. Desai and a handful of other dismissed employees patrolled in saris outside the gates of Grunwick as policemen eyed them warily. Unable to meet with Ward, APEX enlisted the aid of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS), an agency set up by the government's 1975 Employment Protection...
Mass March. Union leaders concede that mass picketing is difficult to control and may lead to trouble. But they argue that Ward's defiance has left them with no alternative other than to call for support of the Grunwick strikers. A mass march of union members and strike sympathizers is scheduled for this week. Arthur Scargill, arrested by police last month when he appeared at Grunwick, promises that 3,000 members of his Yorkshire miners' union will participate in the demonstration...
...Grunwick siege painfully dramatizes the Labor government's precarious dependence on the trade unions, whose unpopularity among nonunionists is rapidly rising. Against the backdrop of the large-scale workers' revolt against wage freezes, the Grunwick strike reinforces the public impression that trade unions are uncontrollable...
This perception was strengthened by the refusal of postal workers to process mail from Grunwick to its film-service customers. After ignoring pleas from postal union officials to stop their illegal blockade, 100 workers were suspended without pay. They showed up at the local sorting office anyway, delivering mail to private homes in the area before postal officials closed the office...
Lacking the legal authority to impose a solution, the Labor government and the courts appear to be powerless. Indeed, the Grunwick siege has raised some fundamental questions about the ability of Britain's democratic institutions to resolve labor disputes...