May-june 1968
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Callaghan intends to stomp the country from now until the General Election campaigning for a fourth phase of rigid wage control-with increases no more than 5%—followed by permanent pay limits.
This was made abundantly clear in his arrogant, provocative speech to bureaucrats of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions conference last Friday.
Callaghan declared not only that there would be a Phase 4, but also that he had no intention of seeking prior agreement with the TUC on his proposed figure.
In other words, as with the Phase 3 10% limit, the government has decided simply to thrown down the gauntlet to the TUC bureaucracy, knowing full well that these union leaders are so eager to assist the employers to pull through PHOTO: John Sturrock, Report Lessons of the Popular Better Red Than Dread Eritrea: part two...
•pp.6-7 AUEW President Hugh Scanlon last week called on fellow union officials to act more energetically alongside British Leyland management in forcing through speed-up on their shop floor members.
Speaking at the annual conference of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions, Scanlon bemoaned the fact that certain unions have not yet been drawn fully into the reactionary joint management/union 'participation' set-up that has transformed whole layers of convenors and shop stewards into an arm of management.
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