YORKSHIRE miners leaders were told last Friday 16 October of the coal board's intention to close two Redbrook collieries as being for the axe. The closure move follows similar recent closure announcements of Wheldale colliery in Yorkshire, Kent, Renishaw in Derbyshire and. Cadely Hill in the Midlands.
A week earlier manageintention to impose changes in technology arrangements which would threaten both the jobs and safety conditions mineworkers. They tional steel tunnel supports by roof bolts. Roof bolts cost f50 to install compared to £100 for steel supports and are widely used the US coal industry which has different geological conditions being notorious for its worse accident rate than Britain.
They can be installed more quickly with fewer mineworkers their introduction s seen another cost-cutting scheme which puts protits before miners jobs conditions. Both the NUM and Nacods are opposed 16 Octover over women the tended meeting Women Against Closures (WAPC) Sheffield.
were apart TOm prevented form extended LLOI WAPC, change the ended, the WAPC has the for Snowdown to them as a sole means of SUDDULLs. Profits "profits first' British stock future of of COCT Justifydescribed a British spokesperhad ASSCLS.
The coal continue present ban SHUTLCO But the executive Mineworkers Campaign LICI sacked), and the campaign against nuclear power stations, and their voice has been heard in the Anti-Apartheid Movement, international solidarity campaigns, trade union struggles and in campaigns in defence of pit communities against threatened pit closures and other issues.
meeting Women meeting national meeting rejected place the question escalating the action in the through a special delegate The CONC CECC CUlL ference move was backed Yorkshire, Durham, Kent delegates and Notts.
Following this national executive meeting, the yorksure ared eaters decided suspend indefinitely their original intention unilaterally ballot their members over stepped up action favour of launching a campaign JOI delegate conference.
Cost The limited ban had cost 205,000 tonnes in lost TOOCHOR in first three weeks, British Coal announced. The lost duction wortn f8.2m and accounts for less that four per cent of total output.
• An NUM research paper says that privatisaly industry between 170,000 200,000 job losses in electricity, coal, rail engineering industries. N.M RotusCHuLD & SoNs LouTl CIN BEHALE OF HM TREASURY presented the Board's own figures which, make an overWORKERS at Vauxhall's Luton plant strike action for a £10 improvement in bonus payments. Since August, when car and van production at the plant were separated in Vauxhall's Isuzu link-up, the company has calculated bonuses on a new basis. As a resul they have been lowered Although the dispute does not directly effect Vauxhall's Ellesmere Port plant, the company has unilaterally suspended national wage HELORAROS CHILI over.
GENERAL secretary of the NUR, Jimmy Knapp, has sent out a circular to all branches and district concerning mobilising support for the striking engineering workers at Senior Colman in Sale near Manchester. The circular explains that after 'nine months on strike, the strikers are national union backing is a real boost to the strikers and can be built on to win wider support for their battle for union rights.
Messages of suppo
ind donations to Seni Colman Strike Committee, AEU House 43 Crescent, Salford, M5 4PE.
SHOP stewards from all Courtauld's plants met and decided to oppose draconian company attacks on their conditions.
The company had given notice to the National Union of Hosiery and Knitwear Workers (NUHKW) that all their members' contracts are to de terminated at the end of the year Courtauld's proposals 101 nev contracts for the 6000 mainly female workforce include introducing 24-hour working through continental shifts and night and weekend work; ending the right to tea-breaks; changing holiday conditions; introducing super-intensive time and motion studies using video cameras and splitsecond timing; ending structures in order to negotiate unit by unit.
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