Asian workers | Socialist Action 1983

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ENGINEERING workers at Firth Derihon Sheffield have been occu 1 April.

For the past two and a half years, the workforce has been short time sometimes only two days a week.

You'd have thought the company is everyone's dream in profits satisfactory order book. The company have a 40 per cent annual rate of profit, that's an average Aluminium picket ELEVEN HUNDRED workers at ite aluminium at Rogerstone Ical Newport, South Wales have been on strike for three weeks.

Following a merger of Alcan and the British Company, management brought redundancies Christmas, the plant to work per Cell capacity hiring of countrallors for various skilled jobs.

workforce oppose the use of contracBut workers don't The employers decided to close the shops to enforce The 80 ing, Electrical unions • Messages of support donations:

Michie, Mather Rd, Littledale, Sheffield S9. Cheques payable to *Firth Derihon (Tinsley) Joint Works Committee' tors and demand enhanced redundancy pay. The the attempt to replace 'first in out' with selective redundancies. This sparked off the strike by workforce known as moderate.

They see this as an attack on jobs, rights and return to hire and fire conditions of the 1930's.

Engineering convenor Harry Jones explains If they get away with this, there no point having a union, TWO spinners at Aire Valley Yarns, near shop was victimised.

The have the recently TGWU protect themselves official.

The workers, mostly Bradford to: Liaquot Ali, fund Dirkhill Street Horton Road. messenger service* apart The pickets have found an ingenious way of getting around the si icket rule. Up to 900 at tend the mass 'information meeting' held each morning as office staff foremen go into work (Paul Eynon and Roger Phillips)

PICKET LINES.

word reports by Thursday before publication. Longer contact Editorial Board by Mondaly week before publication. Brent St, Hendon NW4. Grosvenor House pickets outside industrial tribunal on 30 March. Support to GMBATU, Thorne House, 154 GROSVENOR HOUSE PARKLANEUO SACKED!

FOM ASKING FOR A CONTRACT OF EMPLDYMEN

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Socialist Action 15 April 1983

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