Talbot stay out
Socialist Press1979 1979-08-08Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 10 →
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On Monday and Tuesday of last week the remaining in-patients were removed from the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital in London.
A mass meeting of workers at the Talbot (formerly engine plant at Stoke, Coventry voted last Friday to continue their 3-week all-out pay strike.
They have rejected a derisory 5½% pay offer and incentive scheme offered by management, and are demanding an increase of around 20%.
The conspicuous silence of the press and TV on this major pay battle indicates Workers Socialist League| TE LABOUR SACK LAGHAN!!
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.50 £5.00 £9,00 £6.50 £8.00 votes of upwards of 90% in favour of a strike.
This strength is in spite of the recent history of defeats and gedundancies in Chrysler plants and a politically bankrupt right wing leadership that has always been reluctant to mobilise full-scale action.
Blacking
Even now there is little sign that the Ryton convenors have established the port blacking of imported Alpine and other Chrysler cars from the continent.
But the workforce plainly remains solid in its determination. And this is why the employers and the media wait with bated breath for the outcome of this crucial strike.