Rubber workers strike | Socialist Action 1983

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ONE HUNDRED and thirty workers at the Philips Rubber Company in have been on since 3 January to improve the company's four per cent pay offer.

Basic pay for process workers, most of whom are women, now stands at f48 a week.

The workers all members of the Transpor Union, are demanding £75 week for millers Overus for process workers TGWU full time official, Walter Wainwright explains employees were working under COMEDIA when I first went to the factory. I wa: sick because of the fumes.

By R Wilkes 'We're simply asking for rate: of pay comparable with the rest of in dustry John Hood, TGWU steward at the fac lory addeo inal Ine sarel committee was powerless filthy, unhealthy conditions as management would allow them to meet.

Manacement have been just as obstructive on pay, despite £170,000 profit last year The strike, which is of ficial, Evervone participates in picket duty, on four hour shifts.

Solidarity vital to win. Dunlop workers have already agreed not to han. die material from the comEngineering Union fitters from Carte Dromers nave rerusco lo install new machinery. • Donations messages to: Mr Riley, Smeaton Cheetham,