between the executive of une correderallon oi Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions (CSEU) and the Engineering Employers reaeranon (CCr) las been described by TASS 20 10e gicalest telloval of workers rights in the historv of engineering In return for a oneand-a-half hour reduction in the working week over turer years, the employers have insisted on an agreement which imposes total job utilisation of plant and and other clauses which dramatically increase CPSA Labour Party ballot THE largest civil service union will ballot early in 1988 on Labour Party affiliation. The move follows a CPSA conference decision in May and a ballot vote to establish a political Tam enterin lue year.
The Treasury has intimated that it would refuse to deduct the political levy at source if the union voted in Part-timers up, accidents up RECENT government reports have confirmed a substantial rise in the number of part-time WOIKCIS. Over a fifth of all workers in the UK are now part-time, of whom 83.2 per cent are women according to the Department of Employment. TUC, NUPE -40 P In a r cent of whose 650,000 members are part-time - has outlined a 10-point charter. It includes the demand for a statutory minimum wage and says that partMANAGEMENT at the engineering firm of Senior Colman in Sale, near Manchester, have contacted AEUsponsored MPs concerning the long-running dispute. Their soundings are being interpreted as a sign of the strikers' strength.
For eight-and-a-half months, the strikers have maintained a round-the-clock picket.
They have sent delegations to visit unions and workplaces They came out on strike when four of their number were summarily dismissed for refusing a management diktat in Address 10que/PO payable to Socialist Send to: Socialist Action Subs, PO Box S0, London NI 2XP. Action for £...... manage.
These will inevitably lead to further job cuts in an industry which has seen hundreds of thousands of jobs axed over une last cigul ycals The deal will be strong v resisted bv engineering workers who are planning a series of protests. key policy-making body of the main engineering the AEU, meets on 24 September in Eastbourne. The next meeting of the CSEU executive is in London on s November.
Both meetings will be lobbied by union activists opposed to selling hard-won rights.
favour of Labour Party affiliation. Even though check-off operates for union dues, the Treasury has yet to agree to deduct the non-party levy.
The main TUC affiliated teachers union in Scotland, the EIS, has decided to ballot over establishing a political fund.
timers should be entitled to state benetits.
Another government department, the Health and Safety Commission reports a substantial rise in the number of industrial accidents. There were 329 fatalities 'major' injuries for the year The figures exclude agriculture, forestry and fishing, and mining and quarrying.
They are respectively 13.4 per cent and 17.9 per cent higher than the previous year.
line with union policy.
Since then all the strikers have been Their determined struggle over union nonts nas Deen supported by a number of Manchester factories through f1 per week collections. Unions at WHererousol.
Thorn-EMI, Tighlman's, Budenburg's and Flexibox have been especially supportive as have the Durham • Donations etc to Senior Colman Strike Committee, AEU House, 43 The Crescent, Salford MS 4PE SUBSCRIBE RATES Inland (48 issues only Alrmall £34 (Doublo these rates for multi-reader Striking Sarmcol workers South Africa for two-and-a-half years BTR harket 2½ yeaRS Support NOTTS - express their support for Notts NUM. International solidarity was a key - who have been in struggle against BTR in were on the demonstration to
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Senior Colman workers strong