SPECIAL conference to get rid of the Tories'.
NATFHE branches there.
Trades Council's teachers 28. November out, expected General hundred people chanting. 'Tories out' and "The Tories, the Tories, we've got Support for the occupation and opposition to the racist fees increase has come from TGWU members at the Poly, together with the NALGO and With the support, too, of Preston mittee, the students now aim to visit executive 'com- firm local factories and union branches. days Said IN 1970 there were two thousand workers at the Meccano factory in Merseyside. Friday, remaining 931 workers at the plant were handed their cards. But they decided to stay put.
management now locked the occupying have produclon underway by the middlé of this week; and to hold a toy fair at the factory to unveil the 1980 models.
FRANK BLOOR, convenor of the and Municipal •Worker Union at Meccano — which has the largest number of members there — told John Sexton and Geoff Carrole about the decision to occupy.
It was at 3.45pm last Friday that the managing director of Airfix, the owning company, called in all the senior stewards here to tell us that in three-quarters of word cease to Suncin hour the When we raised the question of 90 notice, the managing director "you'll have to take us to the they're good We were with the workers at the Speke No 2 plant and all the other places down. which closed. We feel that this is the last stand for Liverpool.
The first basic step was to occupy the plant, to ensure that we have enouch deodle on site to secure the plant for ourselves. We intend to keep WOrKTOILE about developments.
We would like the help of the trade union movement country to assist us in this struggle. And we'd be very pleased if anyone who has been through this experience of occupation would get in touch with us.
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petition Although invaded by these 1. Fuli executives Sheila The only thing that management has asked of us is if they could use the computer to get the wages out. We said certainly, but we'll have one ol our computer people with them to makesure it's only the wages.
WHEN women were banned from playing snooker at the City Working Men's Club in Wakefield it was the last straw for one woman.
Despite changes in legislation the Clubs and Institutes to which many clubs are affiliated, prevent women having a • Women in Wakefield organised » and picketed the club's committee to demand their rights.
the committee eventually accepted the petition they remained intransigent about the snooker table.
Given that most members of these clubs are trades unionists and Labour Party members, it seems high time that these bastions of patriarchy were women who have every right to be full members. Or have committees forgotten that women work both in and outside the Equal Rights In Clubs Campaign for Action is fighting for the following in working men's clubs:
membership rights women. 2. The right to affiliate to the Club and Institute Union. 3. The right to vote in clubs. 4. The right to vote at CIU conferences. 5. The righ to use all club facilifies. 6. The right to introduce visitors to clubs. 7. The right to nominate and stand for club and committees. 8. To change the name of working men's clubs to workers' clubs. Contact Capstick, South Street, Wakefield if you want to know more.
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