Red WeeklyRed Weekly No. 113, 21 August 1975UNION LEADERS POLICE £6 LIMIT
Red Weekly No. 113, 21 August 1975 · p. 4 of the scan · 126 words
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Shortly before the £6 limit was introduced, nearly 30,000 workers on Tyneside were engaged in wages struggles. The management simply held out until the limit was introduced and then informed the workers that although they would dearly love to pay them more, the nasty Government wouldn't allow it. Instead of organising a fight against the E6 limit the local union bureaucrats meekly toed the line and ordered their members back to work.
The only place where these instructions were defined was the Swan Hunter ship-yards. There the fitters and labourers have been out on strike for nearly six weeks for a claim for £10.30 which the boilermakers in the yards won in June. Their determination to stick it out has totally incensed the local