Rights | Socialist Action 1983

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to close in 1988 September, coal boss Sir Robert Haslam, made his objectives clear in accusing Arthur Scargill oi being more concerlicu about the protection of his militants than anything else'. Notts As Henry Richardson, Notts NUM president, explained replyın!

eading members of th NUM who opposed stronger action against the BRITISH Coal boss, Sir Robert Haslam, has announced a new scheme aimed at buying miners' jobs. Mineworkers who take voluntary redundancy before next March will receive an extra £5000 according to the scheme.

In makin the announcement, Haslam sai that the corporation "hoped to maintain redunbasis' up to March 1988.

Writing in the Financial Times of Charles Leadbeater plained that Haslam's statement means that 'there will need to be compulsory redundancies in the 1988-89 financial rear if not before. . He weat ou to add that the ans But what's at stake is more than just trade union rights in the mining industry. The imposition of the code of conduct on the mnes wowe be a viclor. for every employer. If coal board Wallaecuicil Cal. pick choose representatives; if NUM branch officials can be sacked at will; who else i safe? It will give the green light to every employer to impose a similar draconian regime in a workplace.

Haslam threatens compulsory redundancies ment is 'clearly aimed' at forcing new pit closures.

statement midst of the fight against the new discio inarv codt but also as Derbyshire miners have started a fight against the closure of Renishaw Park. The North Derbyshire workforce has been halved its 1984 level of 12,000 Speaking at a rally to fight the closure alongside reter Heathtield and Den nis Skinner, Renishaw NUM branch chair, Ron Robinson, that British Coal had put all sorts pressure on miners to withdraw from the revie» procedure a00 ccepa the castre.

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A WAVE OF anger has swept across the country's fire stations following news of the sacking of 360 firefighters in West Glamorgan. Fifteen areas, in cluding the north-west, an 'emergency only' policy. JON SILBERMAN Scotland, West Midlands vide The well 'understands the threat. The member. : Liverpool, Newcastle West Midlands, Tayside and Glasstarted action in Socialist Action 9 Oct 1987

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and north Wales were hit by solidarity action as local branches of the Fire Brigades union (FBU) adopted