Plessey sackings

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The giant Plessey combine is to sack 600 workers at its Edge Lane plant in Liverpool, blaming a reduction in demand for traditional telephone equipment and a turn to new electronic systems.

Last year Plessey made 1,800 workers redundant when it closed plants at Speke and Kirkby.

Sit-in action at all Plessey's Liverpool plants took place, but leaders failed to put forward any demands to link to broader layers of Plessey workers elsewhere, and the sackings took place.

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The new planned sacki ings would cut the Edge Lane workforce from 5,100 to 4,500.

There is clearly scope here for the available work to be shared between the whole Edge Lane workforce without loss of pay.

If management should refuse this demand, the redundancies must be fought by occupation linked to the fight to open Plessey's books and uncover the planned attacks on other sections of workers in the combine, and the demand for the combine to be nationalised, without compensation, under workers' management.

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This clearly represents a continuation of their bankrupt policy of putting forward an "alternative plan" for profitability, coupled with reliance on the union bureaucracy who have no intention of leading a fight to save jobs on London's Royal Docks.

Brian Nicholson, chairman of the London Docks Joint Union Committee even went so far as to argue for the unity of unions, churches, community organisations, MPs and local councils around an alternative plan.

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SOCIALIST PRESS to defend Cow -000 The Cowley 9 Defence Campaign-the ad hoc grouping set up to fight witch-hunting moves by TGWU bureaucrats to victimise 9 BL Cowley shop stewards-has called for the biggest possible lobby by TGWU members of the union's Midlands Regional Committee, now scheduled for July 19.

The Committee meeting been put back from the One currency for Europe-an end to the enormous plunges of the pound and the liracustomary second Wednesday in the month, and now falls in the middle of works holidays throughout British Leyland and much of the Midlands.

This warning sign that the Committee intends to take action against the 9-who include the convenor and three elected deputy convenors in the factory -has been anticipated by TGWU stewards in the Cowley Assembly Plant.

A meeting of 140 stewards voted unanimously to support the lobby on July 19, and to convene a Buckle further meeting immediately after the holidays if any of the should be victimised.

Meanwhile one of the ey key figures in the witchhunt and the District-level kangaroo court "inquiry" into the Cowley 9, District Secretary David Buckle, has been relieved of his responsibilities as official covering car transport firms in Cowley.

He has been replaced by his junior official, District. Organiser Geoff Hulett.

This switch follows the successful reinstatement of Cartransport convenor Brian Preston after a year-long battle by transport driversblocked every inch of the! way by Buckle.

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