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luere was to win by bluff alone.
reprieve support for the strike action.
the action agreement. equipment, other (wo days. and has told the union to 'get lost'.
Meanwhile, we do not gain the 35-hour week. WE HAVE been fighting for our 'nationa] claim, which consists of a demand for an 80 basic wage; an hour off the week this year, with a 35-hour week by 1982; and two days' more The response to the three one-day strike calls has been far better than Terry Duffy and the rest of the Confederation leadership desired.
campaign to prepare the membership for the struggle, yet Duffy had the temerity to threaten the employers as early as last May that we are 'collision bound', hoping Yet despite the hope for an 'eleventh-hour to quote our union bulletin -indicating the reluctance of the leadership to fight, locally there has been overwhelming Three factories were given dispensation from Metal Box, Dunlop, and Marconi-Radar, which has a reactionary staff We feel that this is a divisive measure, because if there is advancement the factories which have given up nothing would still gain. We need maximum unity for maximum effect factory, Goodwin-Barsby, scabbed on the first Monday. This plant is part Leyland, quarrying and decided to come out for the Control Equipment, another Jocal factory, is boycotting the work of one member. who scabbed on one of the days of action. A Transport Union official is to hold an inquiry.
Tube Inyestments in Leicestershire, which has a thousand union members, is not striking the mass media locally and nationally are doing their best to minimise the claim by saying that it's just about wages. The Engineering Union will be totally discredited if Token strikes leading to selective strikes are useless. Only an ali-out strike can win the claim.