to BEWARE OF A SELL-OUT.
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• without any loss in unemployment.
Says PAT HANSON, Convenor al ine Brough Aerospace plant on Humberside: 6L AS FAR as I'm concerned we need an all-out strike to finish them off as cleanly as possible. What is clear is that it has to be a national fight for the full claim, none of this plants going it alone nonsense. I'm opposed 1• any settlement of the strike because that » ill onls increase the wage differences and strengthen the bosses' hand.
At a 1,500-strong mass meeting of shop stewards Humberside few weeks argued for all-out strike action as the only way to win. And we lost by only right votes. I'm pretty confident that if we put it to the vote in my factory a majority would call for all-out strike action.
I nfortunately. union rules preclude us from calling a mass meeting and pulting it to the vote. It's got lo come from the National Executive first. Terry Dufty's f position. He's a new boy, and knows he can't he seen by the membership avoiding a fight.
This is good for us because he can he put to the fest and if found wanting he can be removed. The TU Cand CBI have talked about the 'harmonisalion of relations but Terry won't be having harmonious relations anyone, because the members will be pulling him into action.
Ken Gill is supposed left-wing. yet in this strike Duffy is willing to take more action undu les.
vy e are Delng itt down Dy me witte olse indis TASS are part of CSEL crossing What they don't seem to understand is that when the micro-chips introduced they'll be first for the chop. Then they will come knocking on our door for help.
lot of workers voted Tory of the Thatcher supporune conecuve Dalgaining and allowing the unions to negotiate with the employers on the But what's happened now that they are in power? They're backing the EEF to the hilt and have introduced proposals to cut down union rights.
'I'he are right behind this 'right to work' move to cross ine picket-line. The local bosses' rag, the Hull Daily Mail, ran big articles about two guys who don't want to support the strike. Yet that is all they could find two guys!
sips orin weekly dewspaper LEWOUNDE Hull News. TERRY DUFFY is reported to be 'looking for a breakthrough'. That should be a warning sign to all engineering workers. It should warn them From the very beginning the right wing union leaders have been attempting to avoid a fight over the claim. They tried to water it down to £70 for skilled workers and drop the demand for shorter hours altogether. Now Duffy is again hinting that 'an hour off the week' and commitments to further reductions in hours can be traded for extra Now is not the time to be conceding to the employers the principles behind the claim. The reduction in hours is a first step towards sharing pay The employers are just starting to take the action seriously. The 'back AUEW plant-by-plant over ago, peculiar truth was there in the in Birmingham.
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part of the fight against GEC NO ENTRY to work revoll' has gone from the sublime to the ridiculous. The latest episode at Rolls Royce saw no significant return to work even when the union failed to picket. break the strikes. GEC has begun to lay-off workers claiming it to be the result of the two-day stoppages.
factory. By firm and decisive action lock-outs can be prevented, and the employers attempts to split and have been prepared to go as far as two-day strikes, but now they have got to finish the job. The employers are calling Duffy's bluff: either go all the way or make concessions.
SELL OUT, MAKE IT ALL OUT ACTION. Now the employers are embarking on a new and more serious tactic to Workers at GEC in Sheffield have responded by occupying the demoralise But another lesson must be learned from these lay-offs. The unions That's why engineering workers have to be on their guard and say: NO workers Terry Duffy, AUEW President.
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