Save Marylebone Save rail this development is affecting mainly plants, but there is every reason to believe that it will extend to established plants in the future.
The weak position of the TUC on these agree. ments threatens to open a Pandora's DOX heart deals. The general council is trying to avoid a discussion on the issue at the September while the EETPU says that it will split from the TUC on the issue if necessary.
The left in the unions must contront this issue. 11 should be forced onto the such deals banned.
By Bob Findlay, Kewal Unions agreeing to them shoud be • excluded from the provisions of the Bridlington Agreement.
In the EETPU Hammond does not speak for all EETPU I members. The left in that union deserves the support of every trade unionist in fighting the right wing. the TUC were to oppose the EETPU leaders ; it would be an enormous doos lo lucou position to Hammond et al.
In the meantime Flashlight, the broad left paper this issuento the top of its in the union should agenda.
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Three hundred and sixty jobs have already been lost this year are in the pipeline after July. These TOHOV more than 400 jobs lost through voluntary redundancy since August last year.
If the British Ship. builders get their way on Ine "DrOOLCLVIL •tal only 1700 jobs will be lef by December 1984 - and these too are threatened if shipbuilding orders fail to materialise Since the beginning of this year the craft unions have been picked off one by one, yard by yard. The occupation by non-craft workers represents an attempt to reverse the situation.
Management are tightening on the tion. With an oil rig on the slipway needing three days work to get into the destroyer wale stranded in the wet dock, their next move must be to clear the way for scab labour needed to shift the stranded vessels.
Support the CAMMEL LAIRDS shipyards, Birkenhead, is now entering its third week of occupation by 150 workers fighting the 800-plus redundancies threatened at the joined was Derbyshire.
Bolsover with meeting and ine mittee condemned Circle' who has polici volun • protected.
cupation redun cancer bulli throughout the should be sent to: •Cam.
mell Lairds Occupation Support Group, , c/o Wir Trades Council, Trade Union and Unemployed Resources Centre, Argyle Street South, Birkenhead, Merseyside; phone Mick Cashman on 051-647 6122. to vage e re service through rate capping anc the abolition ot the UL( and metropolitan counties will resistance.