Fight Herberts Sackings

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regard as "bad manage- British machine Trade Union leaders at Alfred Herberts, Coventry, where 800 redundancies have been announced have adopted a policy to fight the sackings which is bound to fail.

While the first step they have taken-opposition to voluntary redundancy-is correct, no real strategy to defend jobs has been put forward.

Instead they are demanding the removal oi in Herberts hairman and appealing to the NEB whic wns the company to inter vene against what they ment"

This short-sighted policy, which misses out the basic fact that the NEB have obviously planned the sackings, does nothing to protect the independent interests of the workers concerned.

Work sharing

There must be an immediate fight for work sharing on full pay and the opening of the company books. A full investigation will show the basis or otherwise for the charges of bad management.

The problems of the tool industry reflect the general crisis of British capitalism.

The workers at Herberts must use the information they get from an investigation of the. company's books fo draw up a plan for a fully nationalised British machine tool industry under workers management.

The fight for this policy of course raises the basic questions of what sort of government and economy is needed to protect Herberts jobs.

But it is the only realistic policy in the face of the employers determined drive to sack at Herberts and elsewhere.

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