Pat Hickey, deputy steward, TGWU, BL SD1 AS THE Engineering Federation responded to the unions' pleas for settlement strike by selective lock-outs, the Manchester last weekend to plan its response.
Ninety militants from most parts of the country attended. As might be expected, the meeting was entirely in favour of all-out action to win the daim.
There was much criticism of the Broad Left in the refusal to make any serious effort to mobilise the membership behind the daim.
election next year. senior Employers' Charter thie Shipbuilding beginning Engineers in lodged the claim, the demand ErDU holidays.
The claim has was complete unions.
AUEW for its militancy From the local reports which were given, it was clear that the Broad Left in the districts was doing no more than the leadership at national level.
editor Jack Robertson pointed out that the Confederation of and Unions, the joint union body that has was prepared to for sherter working week in return for extra now been So watered down that it was clear that the determined down the For the bosses, Robertson argued, the aim is to smash the developing the shopfloor in preparation for the round of domestic winter, negotiations which will take place this and. for speed-up and redundancies.
Engineers Charter, launched by the Socialist Workers Party, has been only current in the organising on a consistent basis for an all-out strike. Weekly broadsheets are being produced, and Socialist Challenge supporters should ensure their widest possible distribution.
The broadsheets, while strong on militancy and full of good agitational information, have not been enough on how to organise and win the claim.
Calling for action córrect, but this has to be fought for not just on the picket lines but also in the union's official structures.
Charter, supportert arawa. fighting for sewa meetings of the Confed, and these CARTE meetings must organise for all-out action against the selective lock-outs.
The fight to membership is the key to success, but Confed leadership has to industry forced to support these actions and the Broad committee rooms.
move, but neither should we leave them to hide away until it's all over, and then emerge and take up where they left off. sharp The fight with the bureaucrats, both left and right, is an essential part of the struggle.
Socialist Challenge should give full support to the existing Charter groups and help to establish Beeke ene in the piss on the official structures.
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