'They even threatened to bring in the Royal Navy!"
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John August: Ar Ekofisk # STALLS *Argylt UCATT hiding CLOSURE • N.Vikinc / SWiking Closure indefatig only.
Leman ASean call out to communicate has been, and will continue to be fouche for.
attenipt 10 break this blockade of informa Lion and to further rank and Sle cants with shore jobs in Aberdeen are setting up Blow Or and More than a thousand Yorkbuilding workers marched through Sheffield last week to protest against the attacks on direct labour and local government spend ing. The one-day strike which accompenied the march on 2 August was the last in a series of regional actions organised building workers union UCATT.
Bar the only response by the Labour Government is to withdraw the Direct Labour Organisation Bill as part of the Lib-Lab deal. Socialist Salled to John Brow, a CCATT shop steward in Birmingham Direct Works, abour what he sees as the next stage in the com paign to save jobs and national delegare conference el local anchority TOTALIS the delegate conference of direct works regre "I was never implemented. We conferens behind well the imporcance of such a The Tory council is the Lovernmen SCHEE policy in attacking direct works.
total opposition to the run down direc works Brown explains, but so far this connsittient remains on paper all out lie me send te merners at National Exhibicion Centre if th local Tories contine their policy of closure. So far this chrest has committer has for months been asking for a decision on a date, but no answer has been given.
We are told this is pur trump ara, but de rau don t play you trump card before the game over it's no use lo you!.
workers. received strong support from other unico mili tants, and it plaved a major role fathe suike in Birmingham on 3 CONFERENCE It was at a meeting called byche action committee that the idea o the Manchester conference promoted. The inactivity of pur execurive means that, for a star we have to set up a nationa! co ordinating committer, says Jolt Brown, giving his views on the conference's tasks campaien of solidarity action should any one departmen: bi closed that means national strike action"
On the policies of the coc end wcash limits on direer works automatic rises in spending to compensare 10E Th ing costs." He points out tha "there are no cash limits whien it HELTELL doing the work we should be doing.
We cannot have the facilities or materials we need, and then the contractors are called in because of understaffing. That i what cuts all increasing the profits of private enterprise,"
He argues that the same mili tant appronch is needed on the Irant: There is no doubl that management sill arque that a nise can only be made through productivity deals. They will ty and get us to accept redundancie TO HOTE THUH We mass tell our crecutive that none of ou jobs is for sale.
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