Power vorker: rebuff leaders
Socialist Press1979 1979-08-01Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 11 →
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Power workers leaders are on the spot following a second ballot rejection of a pay offer unanimously recommended by union officials.
This show of militancy by the 95;000 manual workers has percolated even through the defusing apparatus of a postal ballot.
They have clearly been driven on to defy their officials by the recent three stage 20% settlement agreed by the Electrical Power Engineers Association for 28,000 white collar and managerial staff.
Mandate
Yet despite the clear mandate for strike action and windy threats from negotiator Jack Biggin that "all hell will let loose", , the immediate response to the vote from EETPU leader Frank Chapple was to deny that there was any likelihood of industrial action. Power workers have shown their willingness to fight: and Chappie has once again indicated the determination :of the EETPU bureaucracy to hold them bureaucracy hold them back. NION DUES