Airport workers offer bosses advice

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stewards accused of organising an unofficial strike.

Such joint committees, arising out of the 'participation' set-up, mean that once a steward is condemned as 'guilty', there is no remaining line of defence, since the union is already a party to disciplinary action.

Stewards must take steps to break up this structure which has become an important arm of management.

Abolished

The joint committees must be abolished and the trade unions must withdraw from 'participation' and take up their legitimate role: defending the working class rom management.

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Rival sections of the union bureaucracy are still at loggerheads as to which planes British Airways should buy.

Following the clash two months ago between Hugh "buy Boeing with British engines"" Scanlon and CP member Ken "Buy all British" Gill, London Airport staff have decided to get involved.

Lay representatives and officials on British Airways' trade union council have come out in opposition to the line taken by stewards at the British Aircraft Corporation, who had argued for a "buy British" policy.

BA workers decided that a number of Boeings should be ordered, as well as a significant number of BAC 1-11s.

While these stewards and officials are drawn deeper into advising the capitalist state how to run its airline, none of them have put forward a socialist approach to defence of jobs and wages.

As long as the component firms, the catering firms, the travel firms, and many other aspects of the airways remain privately owned, and while the 'nationalised' sector is administered by the capitalist state in the interests of profitability-in short, while air travel remains part of the capitalist economyworkers should concentrate on fighting for their own interests, not advising employers on which equipment to buy.