Women from Lucas' King St. plant.
they tried to cross picket lines. then marched to disrupt the AUEW shop stewards meeting. they used the slogan of 'we want the work', thev meant individual rigit and not a collective right in the way we use the slogan. It So their support is dwindling and it's because people are not prepared to go anti-union. One useful offshoot, perhaps, is that some of my members are starting to meetings are held didn't realise that mass meetings in the plant are not the only way union policy is shaped. I think King should have had a mass meeting like we did.
The membership behind the claim for the same reason. The claim does affect my members' shift allowance and overtime, though they were pissed off when I told them demand maternity leave had been dropped.
But the becoming a matter of them and us The propaganda the EEF is sending out (in our place we each got a letter with a 10p stamp on it saying the were going bust because of us) is al about being one big family. But when they are working on Monday and Tuesday and we're not, that starts to ring false.
Another thing is this. The demand for a cut in hours doesn't interest the older women, who think in terms of wages not hours; but when you start to explain It in terms overtime and saving different. When they Although union is irresponsible, you can show how the union their members but for those out of 29 sible not Just work as well.