Print Retreat
Socialist Press1978 1978-05-31Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 11 →
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Machine minders at the Observer who had been threatened by the union with permanent loss of their jobs returned to normal work at. the weekend in time to produce a full version of the Sunday newsBut NGA leaders who had agreed to act as the direct agents of management in victimising their members cannot hail the return to work as an outright victory.
It had become clear during the week that if the machine minders decided to defy the threat for the second week running, attempts by the NGA to bring in scab forces were not likely to succeed.
Other printers on s the Observer were prepared to refuse to work with union scabs, and the NGA leadership was having difficulty recruiting the small numbers they needed to break the dispute.
The 25 machine minders, who are also in dispute at Reveille over manning and pay, INTERMINABLE DISCUSSIONS, DELIBERATE DELAYING TACTICS AND BUREAUCRATIC RED TAPE!
THE GOVERNMENT HAS TARIEN AH! NOW DOWN THE GAUNTLET-IF WE I GET IT! MINISTER-.. DON'T GET TALKS WITH THE SHUT DOWN PLANNER THREAFENED HIT lacked and still lack a programme with which to fight the officials who want to see them out of a job.
They returned to work ''on the basis that other fellow trade unionists' livelihoods could be in jeopardy."
Instead a call to those fellow trade unionists should have been made for an all out defence of jobs at the Observer and a policy of restored staffing levels and work sharing on full pay.
THE TRANSFER of work on Leyland's TR7 sports car from the now closed Speke plant to Canley in Coventry has already cost 3,000 jobs on Merseyside.
Now Leyland have announced plans to axe a further 700 jobs at Canley-to be "phased out" over the next 18 months.
Canley workers, who were told by union leaders to accept the TR7 to create jobs, are now being warned by employers that resistance to speed-up and sackings could endanger output and job prospects!
ITS NOT ON!
MY MEMBERS HAVE HAD WHAT'S GOT INTO ENOUGH! @ISRALL THS WEEK?
HE NEVER USED TO BE LIKE THAS!
PRESS CONFEDENCE WELL HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO SHUT DOLIN TRE ENTARE RAIL NETWORK FOR 1OMANTEs ON DEC 30!
STOKY THORE, aUD80». NOT. MUCH OF A 110012%
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