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How not to fight pay_laws

Red Weekly No. 182, 13 January 1977 · pp. 3-4 of the scan · 516 words

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ROVER shop enting some 15,000 British Leylane workers a actores. have bassed a resolution calline tora conference against ning Star of 31 December quoted Reporting the call, the MorPeter Nicolas. a sookesman the stewards and member of as saying: 'Our proposal is for a delegate conferenCe 01 blue and WITTLE workers crawn trom mousury ang the public services so that we can thrash out a common cause and of strugis in danger of becoming a Way oille WELCOME The call for the conference is weicome our muntants in me ca industry must treat •Communis Party enthusiasm for such a conference with a good deal of scepLICEST - nere was ine brevious con fende pleads come y was initiated by the CP persons of Mobinson, congorgee, and cogie mccarry stirring speeches, resolutions and committee was estabBut no action was proposThen there is the record of Derek Hooinson in condoriece where the CP-dominated Works Committee pushed through a pay 1977. Now Robinson works hand in glove with the management ir DolCine proposals, Mandis Two months ago the hover Negomatine committee voted to locce d nav ciaim coua to the rise in mne collar WHU Tvsely plant for the Shop StewCards Committee to reject claim. avoe dubbed as a committee reverseo is decisior but the reaction at Rover, Solihull was to reaffirm the original claim by a vote of 226 to 39 at a special meeting of the Joint Shop StewConfederation.

Leviana bians Ior an Peter fight against the Social Contract THE VIR Forty journalists from the central London area in Magazines and Books picketed Mercury House publishers in Waterloo last Monday to support who came out on mistake u Doing last are beause he have mie n reporting last week Employment Protection Act. This loophole applies to workers well below the average for their sector. But this legal 'protection' will no to other workers in Magazines and Books submitting claims above ine 4/2 per cent limit. So the struggle goes on.

Dare cynically Two weeks later the Negotiating They also Negotiating Comimmediate Convent ood nartis HUWOYCE conTerence But it must not be DEMAND scale or wages workers and should be to fight the So nst

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RED WEEKLY 13 January 1976 next ten years. It was an obvious money spinner if only the funding had been advanced. But neither the management nor the Government "During the ocupation we conO UeDL jigs to make sure that the plan coule De resurrected. in retrospec the workers made a big mistake in nor continuins mne suruegie to savt the project. Now there's not one solitary civil aircraft design in the and that spells •Unfortunately the self-organisation of aircraft workers isn't as advanced as in the car industry.

combine shop stewards idea hasn't taken root - that made it easier last time for the management to play off one sectoralised plant against another. But given this I think many

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"moderate' by the local press. * Finally there is the record of

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Nicholas, argued

called mittee to seek support from other

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