shop steward and strike committee member, Barton's (Basildon/ Bakery An adult hoker's wage for the basic shift pattern of 40 hours is a mere E23.80 per seek. This in nowhere near a living wage.
We were tired of wuiting for a positive name froin our union icaders, so we came out on wefficial strike. Now they have heen forced to call all-out action.
At our annual conference this year, the union executive was mandated to negotiate For C40 for 40 hours, equal pay for somen, full rate at 18, an end to Sunday wotking, and an extra week's hol Iday. The employers' reply to this was a union executive recommended acceptance it was overwhelmingly defeated, Many bakeries then called for a national strike, and some came out unoffic ially. But our executive wanted more neg otiations, so we got round the table with the employen once again. All that happ ened was that they made the same offer as before, only they would include our threshold into our basic wage.
This offer was then put to another ballot, and was once more overwhelmingly thrown out even though the exec utive had again recommended acceptance. The calls for a national official strike becalbe deafening. But the union bureaucents' response was simply to call for yet more negotiations along with an overtime ban. Kets across the country we cane out any way. And we soon forced the bureaucruts to change their tune!
Through the use of flying pickets we persuaded most of the bakeries in this area to join the unofficial action. Now we ane trying to build a strong local leadership by co-ordinating the activities of the various strike committees. This will help us to resist any self out mores by the bureaucrats.
Success here will also mean that we will be in a strong position to counser une scare tactics which the employers will use to whip up shoppers feeling against us. We will have to put out our own mnterial exposing the way in which they are trying to use this dispute do get the Government to of the pavement. The recent anti-pickets ruling by Judge
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