dominated the situation in the AUEW. last year the left has begun to make limited gains again. JON SILBERMAN looks at the developIN APRIL the AUEW executive committee put the finishing touches to its latest piece of 'new realism' the deal with Washington, Tyne and Wear.
The agreement sums up Terry Duffy and Gavin Laird. A so-called 'company council', i management, day-to-day affairs at the plant.
There will be no shop stewards. While the AUEW given sole negotiating rights there will be closed shop.
Workers will wear identical dress and there will be Just two grades or workers with no job descriptions complete flexibility The deal been publicly hailed by both management and union ofticials. While it stops short of actually including a noserdural agreement is a long clause, drawn-out allan. including a mandatory stag deal ong to ACAS. The has collaboranon wallen all over lh.
But despite the Nissan deal the present AUEW national the latest election results in the THIS year's Broad Left But in the Nissan for its new car plant at the whole policy of with 'representatives of employees' will be the main body dealing with nave emered cred le opposition to Duffy Laird.
In the agenda at the national VUL of the union's 26 divisions suomitted ICOULDLIS which anticipated deals of They ruled out the possibility of the concluding поstrike arrangements.
This year's national committee held under the union's new amalgamated SLIDECLUE. Its 124 members now include delegales engineering, construction ana rounary section — as well as the union's women Despite the fact that the AUEW still has no authentic conference, and despite the dominance of the executive, this Vers tional committee Discontent has been fed by the purely lokel support given to the La donation of £10,000, and by the fact that at the same time the miners were battling it out, negotiated a derisory $4.70 increase national minimum rates — a figure worth just 66p after stoppages according to one national committee delegate.
Anger has been further fuelled by Duffy and Laird not merely failing to pro.
solidarity OLe genuilit with the miners, including but also choosing the middle of the strike to break ranks with the TUC and accept for ballots.
This last issue helped bring things to a head. The ballot organised by the except the Tory money was held in ot the rules of the union and the policy of the national committee.
The ballot papers failed to explain the policy of the union but included an appeal by the executive committee to aid million was allegedly due government. Not surprisingly the vote was 12 to 1 in favour.
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