IMGpapers 1976–79

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1976–79

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Socialist Challenge No. 31, 2 February 1978 · p. 4 of the scan · 196 words

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at Fords, Standard Triumph, Dunlops, and on the docks. The common thread through all the strikes is manning levels. Stewards at Duniops are taced with suspensions and sackings, after laking strike action when the management ripped up the agreement and imposed new manning levels.

The same situarion exists at corporation. Standard Triumph, where the workers are now in their 14lb week of a strike because the manacement rippod up 1972 manning agreements and tried to raise line specus tron 14%5 to 17% curs per bour.

In the 14 weeks. shop stewards have called only one mass meeting, and they alone have picketed the gates The RESISTANCE The struggle at Speke is crucial to the Leyland workers' resistance to the planned job losses. For Edwardes, it is the away with ripping up manning The manning Jevel Standard Triph Speke s enly the start, There are 6,000 jobi wiske and Les and couldn't cure les whether they TR7 is produced mainly for the market, yet all 20,000 TR7s exported to America were re-called for six Taules to be rectified, shop In fact the TR7 is America's EEPTU members lobbying their annual conference in November last year.

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