management and union officials.
This means there will be an workers involved in working at the new Sinter plant, there will be an 'in depth" review of the ratio of technicians to electricians, and negotiations are to begin on the effects of new technology in the The deal, which was little more than could have been achieved ar the heginning of the dispute, was sold to the strikers by Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications and Plimbing Union national nerociator bodie Lancot Throughout the strike EETPL everything they could to smash it. Linton he had negotiated at the Shepcote NAME: Alun Law The strike of the 560 electricians at the British Steel Corporation's Port Talbot vorks ended last Friday. As the strike entered its eleventh week the men voted by 206 to 130 to accept the terms of the Immediate payment to those few stabled he pinciple be Port Talbor electricians were basing their demands on.
He had refused to make the strike official thus allempts of the strikers to gain the support of Swansea dockers, мосте дс со usua y supp00 by the Port Talbot works was CHIDE UKRICE In a fawning and patronising peech to the strikers on Friday Linton appenied 1o you and ignoring his own strike claimed 'you're my boys".
But although the VISIO against the advice of the shap stewards leading the strike it was they, not Linton, who received the five minute ovation at the end Ten thousand marchers flooded the centre of Newcastie on 3June in protes tagainst rising unemployment in the arse. The moblisation was so impressive that even the Lord Mayor of Nowcastle felt constrained to glehis support. The march was headed by a contingent from CA Parsons, the Heaton power plant where jobs are threatened by the failure to bulld the Drax 8 power stallon. Workers from other plants faced with sackinge joined the march: Iram Clarke Chapman, Wickers, Plessey and Jackson the Tailor.
of the meeting.
The convenor of the strike committee, Wyn Bevan, made his determination to carry on the struggle clear when Solar Challene He continue the light inside the gutes of the works as vigorously as we So while the outcome of the strike was not satisfactory for those involved. the support the shop stewards still enjoy, and the determination of the sewards themselves means that British sabotaging Steel Corporation have not heard the last of the electricians ar Port Talbot.
* List Friday the worker occupy ing the British Steel Corporation lads" sinue their acrion. At the mass role in the meeting only one woved against the occupation contiming and reo abstained. The workers accupied the worky after sir of them hac sacked for NUPE-called I1 May action in London againer she cues.