Irish union rebels
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IN THE Irish Republic the construction industry faces a period of chaos and near paralysis as leaders of the Automotive, General, Electrical and Mechanical Operators' Union (AGEMOU) voted last week to : defy an Irish TUC ultimatum and proceer with a strike by 600 drivers employed by Roadstone.
Roadstone is the country's biggest supplier of building materials, and the drivers have defied ICTU rules by independently placing pickets on com-. pany depots throughout the country in pursuit of their wage claim.
The AGEMOU has been threatened with expulsion from the ICTU for breaching the National Agreement on wages and for breaching the bureaucratic code of conduct on picketing.
But the coming negotiations on the next National Agreement seem likely to be thrown further into disarray.
The Irish TGWU is holding two delegate meetings to decide whether to participate in a further National Agreement.
It seems likely thạt this could lead to the withdrawal of Ireland's biggest single union and an effective collapse of the Agreement.
The Stalinists plan to use their bureaucratic control of the Workers Commissions in their efforts to ram wage controls down the throats of the working class.
Although the Socialist Party is publicly cooler towards another pact than JENDS OF ASTRID PROL •.. NO RETURN TO PRISON TORTURE