SHORTLY after organising a branch of the National Society Metal Mechanies at the Redditch near Birmingham Asial workers were made redundant.
The factory, owned workforce OI LL Asian workers, eight more on The entire night shift and the day shift shop stewards were made redundant without notice or re arder she hours after NSMM applied negotiating rights.
Younis. the sacked night-shift SHOP stewarus says Director Geoff Morris went to the rest of the work force and said that be 'wanted no more of 'He then put the remaining workers on 84 hour week - seven 12 hour shifts. The remaining union members were terrified resist. I ne job crisis desperate in the West Midlands, do not fool around.
"The management LICE WELl OU! recruited to work for the same hours and conditions that we had formed the union to fight.' Unfortunately the NSMM failed to turn up and speak to the remaining unionised workers to give them the confidence fight. Instead they took the 'Redditch 9' to 111113iX21 which accepted the compally s lack of work was the cies, not victimisation of*. reason for the redundanunionists. The workers are awaiting an appeal.
Mohammad went on to say, •Mr. Morris paid us protested of notice he poltea to two nouces on the board dated two months, before which he had just stuck there. But we aw ever seet aren before.
•Just before the redundancies Mr. Morris spent £396,000 equipment he had ELUL WOEK Holiday 'Our minimum week was 44 hours. Yet when it came to nonaay was hours. Wages were ‡.95 for nights, £1.75 for pay of £95 for 60 hours of nights.' With so much cheap vious that management were determined crease profits by restricting rates round the clock working:
The 'Redditch Nine' Defence Campaign calls on trade union branches to write to s. Langtord Branch Secretary NSMM, Lionel Street, Birmingham B3 1JG demanding vigorous action against this company which ULCO through: 49 Colville I Guilis Road, FOUR HUNDRED clerical workers have been on strike for over two weeks at the Massey Ferguson tractor plant in Coventry.
Having paid nothing into the company pension fund for two and a half years, management came up with a derisory pay offer of £1 per week plus a freeze on workers contributions the fund.
ACTSS the APEX members are not prepared to •swallow cut in their real wage and pensions on retireAs the Canadian multi-national erodes the capital base of the fund Sixty-five final assembly workers have also thrown down the gauntlet to management
Socialist Action 30 September 1983
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