The Cowley workers challenge to changed work practices was followed last week by strike of workers at Albion Motors Glasgow. They resisting compulsory redundancies.
This against This to subsidiaries Firth of companies Greening Ltd in to drive forced These ocport.
tion at the Dundee Timex plant continues this week, despite a new management offer. The company agreed to the immediate reinstatement of all those dismissed, retraining of workers and the abandonment of court action to end the occudation.
But LICY insisted on their right to enforce comredundancies.
This has been rejected by the 450 occupying workers who are now preparing to tempts to forcibly defeated by the Heath government.
this have dampened confidence in the Union of Communication Workers for many years.
Office and British Telecom management.
TENO personal capacity.
telecom, covering members of the UCW POEU and CPSA (post and telecom group).
As the campaign But, after four years and in the middle of the the factory. Shipyard workers have already pro mised to mobilise a mass picket outside the factory if this takes place. Factory Scotland see another explosion of action against the closure of the Cardowan pit outside Glasgow, with the loss of 1100 jobs.
not persuaded by arguments that their action down because of the eyed should tion.
Sharks Many are demanding a government taking their companies inreversing Tory plans to sel private sharks and ensuring sufficient investment to stop closure and redundancy Support the occupations:
Timex: Treasurer John Kydd, 81 Dundee, Fife, Scotland Michie, Mather Littledale, Sheffield 4GN.
• Greenings: JSSC Strike Fund, c/o L Blood, 26 S St. Newton-LeWillows, Merseyside. • Unit Superheaters: Fred Evans, 8 Bishopston Rd, Bishopston, Swansea. COTTISH AREA
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WHEN Thatcher came to office she promised to make British industry 'leaner and fitter'. This has meant speed up, rationalisation and less workers producing more, through higher productivity. The result, factory closures and mass unemployment. election campaign workers are still fighting back.
Action The five week occupa-
Unity on the agenda IN 1971, the national postal workers strike was
gains for the left as members make the connection between opposition to the government and the Post