The Bullock Report on Industrial anyone is going Ветостасу position of worker directors on exist within the number of trade unions are, for allowing the TUC's concept of 'Industrial Democracy' In fact both the electricians union, the EETPU, and the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers have already voted at conference against participation in companies within the so-called private sector. Indeed at last year's Sixth AUEW National Conference une resouton ane cocumen caling for opposition to the TUC's Doney was carnea witno votes against. Both the right wing and left seem to be united.
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Is a position which because they are too agents of collaboration rather than the trade union officials, who are written off as ineffective.
floor are these officials that they have hidden behind the rhetoric of ine cit in oract to try and sarc to nave endorsed the TUC's honour, the union officials are.' The fact that the left within the company boards. But differences AUEW and the EETPU has not TUC on this blown the whistle on such goingsquestion. In particular a large on is another scandal as they are one reason or another, opposed to these unions to disguise themselves as militants opposed to *sitting round the table with the gaffer, while in reality they are merely seeking to preserve their own particular privileged power-base trade unions.
What is necessary now is for the rank-and-file to prepare its own response. As against all the 'commissions of inquiry and the reports of the trade union officials there must be a concerted effort to draw those sectors of who, like those sections and factories of BLMC, fought and voted wing in unions like the GMWU, against such forms of collaborathere tion to prepare their own inquiry into workers control. Useful starts against even the TUC proposals have been made by the "Luca 'radical'. Plan, The Chrysler workers anNamely that they seek to involve swer and the forthcoming report the shop stewards as the main by the Institute for Workers Control Working Group Inquiry into the Motor Industry'.
These should be extended in So contemptuous of the shop- other sectors of the movement and in particular convened to discuss the way forwing board-room within workers pliers of the Post Office, profits last year of nearly £200 million. While the Post Office cuts are meant to save £220 million, figures submitted by both the suppliers and the unions this month show that the loss of jobs would cost far more in terms or recundancy security and other payments. The Post Office decided to make the cuts because they expect less telecommunications "traffic «conterence future - that is there will be less demand for the use of telepho