Toy Wages
Socialist Press1979 1979-05-23Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 11 →
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Conditions of superexploitation among women workers have been brought to light by unionisation moves in a factory at Didcot near Abingdon.
Rates of pay in the firm, Selected Toys Ltd are 40p an hour, which leaves full time workers, even including so-called bonus payments' • with only marginally over £20 for a 40 hour week!
Like more and more of those taced with similar conditions, where women and immigrants are particularly affected, a breaking point was reached and interest began to build up in trade union membership.
From a meeting organised last week a shop steward was elected and all but a couple of the workforce of thirty had been recruited into the TGWU by the end of the week.
Despite evidence that the employer has already turned for outside advice to prevent the union's growth, and open threats to close the factory rather than recognise a union, the workers are not deterred.
...SO OUR IDEA IS TO STRIP THESE SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS AWAY FROM STRIKERS' FAMILIES ALTOGETHER...
1926, ...BUT YOUVE GOT TO KNOW THE MENTALITY OF THESE PEOPLE— THEY'RE WILD!.. THEY'L STOP AT NOTHING...THEY'LL EVEN
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CAMPAIGN, AGAINST US! MAN BARONG MEANO SELL OUT