Convenor) and Steve Pilley (Rotherham BSC, Boilermakers shop steward)
OUR started Templeborough works in defence of jobs. Management sent two men home who had been made rędundant under the so-called 'Survival Plan'.
Immediately the whole followed by the other Yorkshire, took action, some ten thousand in all.
This the first challenge to the decimation of jobs in the British Steel Corporation since 1980. Over the last three years, nearly half the worktorce nas gee xe• nationally by alacvel compicie plant closures.
We've around 17,000 SUIlC in South Yorkshire to some 10,000 today. At this rate there will be no steelworkers left in another three years. We can see the impact of our A PIECE 9 * I've bean thinking about Thatcher, unemployment Cruise missiles, Reagan, WWW, Zimbabwe, poverty Sama ... and everything! with walkout at of Rotherham works, BSC plants in South lead by the one day stopVaLC Thursday at Scunthorpe the on possibility of further solidarity action IONI Scotland Teeside despite the complete inaction of Bill other national union leaders.
According to Sirs, this fight is about negotiations and lack of proper consultation. Rubbish. What difference does it make to a worker if Bill Sirs had ACTION ", And I believe i Have developed response to these problems.
consulted before reaundancy HOUICC sent out? That worker still out of a job.
The so called Survival Plan is an attack on jobs and has to be fought as such. But more than this, it is a stepping stone to the privatisation of the Special Steels division of BSC.
Back November, management declared that there were two options. One to close the Tinsley Park or second to slash 1700 jobs throughout the whole division. This was the Survival Plan. The question is, whose survival certainly ours. but rather GKN Lonrho and certain senior managers in BSC.
The Survival Plan and the 'saving' of Tinsley Bac has benet by BSC their masters to sell us off to the a meaningtui
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