IT IS as well that there are few Tory votes north of the border. Nothing much is risked when Tory inexample of the regeneration possible in British inthe North East (not to mention Northern Ireland).
rate of Britain because been has all but croaked.
LAST FRIDAY at Timex workers stormed the Milton Plant in Dundee as they began an occupation to save their jobs. Works convenor Gordon Samson said that all possibilities of saving the 197 jobs due to go because of the redundancies decided by Photo: MORNING STAR management 'have been exhausted'.
The Milton complex with the largest autoSCreW department Europe contains somewhere between £40 £60 million which makes particularly vulnerable to the tactic of occunation.
The decision to ocmeeting of 700 workers WHIU know " that 20,000 other Dundee workers already on the dole their chances of getEYE SAVING the Grand Nadustry spokespersons put up Scotland as a shining True Scotland has fared less badly in the recent recession than the West Midlands and some parts of Scotland's industrial story not the product of its lila contradictory elements of alre IOUS more like one fifth (conBrain ting another job are at best remote and at worst near impossible.
Deputy convenor John Kydd says: 'We are occupying for the right to work and we won't be leaving until we have a manufacturing jobs have disappeared.
Productivity . In Scottish industry has been consistently higher than in Britain as a whole for several BIlL Dy ine ena of with running. cent above British Gustna oulour was so oc cent lower than during the time of the three day week. In the early seventies manufacturing accounted for some Scotland's income. Today It is zu per cell.
The only areas of employment growth Scotland the last few years have been in the oil industries (now levelling 65,000); electronics Vul a (40,000); financing services. Less than 20,000 work in steel, less than 10,000 shipWhat's left of basic industry is weaker than its • UK counterpart. It is more dependent on exporting Occupation at Timex negotiated settlement.' The controlled Dundee District Council showed that -councillors can should do other things than put up rents and cut back education.
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100,000 workers now work for multinationals, and 60 per cent of Scottish income is dependent on exports. The absolutely dominated bv oil and oil related industry. Its insercapitalist market makes it part of the process taking place in the British as a whole. In Scotland they are carried through to their logical Concusoe Upswing What's happening to the makes clear that the latest econom upswing unlikely to do much for jobs. Mr. James Goold chair of the Scottish CBI according to the Glasgow Herald of 28 March, says that the recovery is being led by (high technology industries. This will inthployment but would nothing down stimulate growth in the racet is no he al grace ministered to what is left of the battered industry of the Clyde. The bottom line of Scottish heavy industry, outside the pits (one tenth of their 1950 size) are the remaining shipyards Scott Lithgow Govan marked to loose 2000 now and 1000 jobs respectively the Ravenscraig steelworks, where 4300 jobs are at risk.
Plans are well underway to turn une nignt in these plants to save jobs into a Scottish-wide jobs fight The initiative is nOW with the TUC, which must develop a plan of action which can save the Scottish working class the misery poverty of the dole queue.
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