Sandersons Week of Action Called

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Friday 8 September at 8.00 p.m. East Oxford Community Centre Princes Street, Oxford . £1.10 . £2.20 .£5.50 £10.00 1cl Dartmour 1HR • A week of action called by the strikers at Sandersons of Croft near Skegness has been given full support by the TGWU Region 10 Committee.

The action will consist of a one week organised picket of the factory from 11-15 September, starting at 6.30 a.m. daily There are two factors behind this change of tactics.

One is the pressure brought to bear on the local TGWU bureaucrats by the strength and solidarity of the strikers who remain determined as ever and have received substantial moral, financial and industrial support.

Fight to end

Also Sanderson, the owner of the plant has informed ACAS that he wants no more discussions with either them or the TGWU, and that he regards the dispute as a fight to the end.

The current position of the strike for union recognition which began on 13 May 1977 is that the company is now unable to maintain production of forklift trucks and the scabs still working within the factory are employed mainly on maintenance work.

Scabs sacked

Recently the benevolent Mr Sanderson sacked six of the scabs who had remained sọ loyal to him.

And there is no doubt that more of the scabs will find themselves outside the gates as the blacking bites.

Though the week of action should be supported by all trade unionists, much more is necessary for the strike to be won.

The call must be taken up by the strikers and their supporters for the blacking of all essential services to the plant.

But if any lessons are to be learnt from previous strikes for union recognition and the current Garners strike in London, the TGWU bureaucracy is not going to take any of these steps without pressure being put on them.

This means lobbying TGWU meetings, and resolutions should be fought for at TGWU branch meetings calling on the ful time officials to approach the appropriate unions to ensure that supplies are cut off.

In addition, the Regional Committee of the TGWU must be forced to institute a voluntary levy on all the members in the area to support the strike.

Only by implementing these measures can the strike be won.

Meanwhile damaging rumours continue to circulate suggesting that sacked steward Phil Gillatt is prepared to accept a £2,500 out-of-court settlement for unfair dismissal.

Such allegations jeopardise the fight for supporting action in the unions.

If the strike is to be successful Gillatt should at once put an end to the rumours and publicly reject any such payment, focusing the entire attention of the labour movement on defeating this vicious anti-union employer.

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