This afternoon, Justice Minister Jack Straw (you really couldn't make this shit up) got a High Court injunction ordering the prison officers back to work, and warning that they themselves were breaking the law. Outside Walton Prison, Liverpool, the local rep told the picket and the waiting media that he'd just got off the phone to national vice-chair Steve Gough whose reaction to the government's injunction was “tell them to stuff it up their arse”.
Straw has now caved-in and offered talks, so the action has been suspended. It seems unlikely Gough will tell Straw to stick things up his arse when they go mano-a-mano, but then he'll also find it difficult to present such a militant workforce with a shoddy sell-out.
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