Perkins blockade
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THE MASS picketing and huge barricades outside Perkins diesel engine plant at Peterborough signal the emergence on the pay front of the big battalions of the engineering 7,000 manual workers are on strike. Aching from three years of wage control, they are demanding a package worth in the region of £30 a week increase, and have already rejected an £8-£10 management offer.
3,000 white collar and skilled staff were advised by management not to cross the elaborate barricades that blocked the five entrances to the plant on Monday morning.
Pickets are saying they are prepared to stay out six months if necessary. But long before that this strike could provide the initial baptism of fire for a new, anti-union Tory government.