Seafarers storm against kidnapping | Socialist Action 1983

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All subscriptions are posted first class on day of publication. UNION BASHER Tebbit must be pleased by the Defence Ministry kidnapping of HMS Keren over Easter weekend.

Last month the Ministry of Defence this Sealink ferry Douclll for £7.5 million for use as ito Stanley carrier between Port Falklands and Ascension The Blue Star shipping company - owned by the tax dodging multi-national vestev won the con tract to manage the ship. It offered the best deal drop in pay for existing crew, promises of job loss and refusal to comply with union standards for oceangoing facilities.

Seamen's members on board rejected the move from their ferry rates to lower deep sea wages. The NUS demanded compensallon for work conflict area of the South Atlantic, a more daunting prospect Than ne catEuc waters O1 Harwich to Hook of ronand Before negotiations on this ended, Tebbit's pals at Defence stepped Fifty five Royal Navy ratings and officers on board HMS Keren, plain clothes at dead of night. The crew had been sent home for the Easter holiday.

As junior defence minister Jerry Wiggin ex ulted didn't want the ship blacked and! did not want industrial action. Did send expect them in wearing naval UATOIH nave the whole port brought to a By Sunday the ship had sailed This is another assualt on the NUS whose 28,000 members are battered by •massive reaundancits. scrapping of ships breaking flags of convenience The strike call from NUS general secretary Jim Slater has been a long time coming Leadersn defenc seafarers jobs, conditions UltUl organisation is long overboys arguments in the Falklands'.

Slater's blind loyalty to Falklands adventure only weakens seafarers in the face of the real enemy.

year of the Falklands p 8-9

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