Glasgow pay fight
Socialist Press1979 1979-08-22Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 11 →
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Roanoid Plastics is a small firm op the Hillingdon industrial estate in Glasgow, employing around 300 people, three-quarters of whom belong to the TGWU.
On Monday 13 August these unionised workers came out on strik e for a 20% wage claim tr offset the ravages of inflation.
Speed-up The claim had been in negotiation since the beginning of July. The management had offered a miserable 10% plus an 8% productivity deal which would mean speed-up and rationalisation by 'natural wastage' AT THE TOP.
The firm claiming, without much conviction, that if it paid the 20% it would make a loss.
The only answer to such a claim is for the workers to demand an elected committee be given access to the financial books of the firm.
Picketing The , current totally successful picketing must be kept up and links established with other workers in Prestcold's next door and workers in the Glasgow shipyards that are threatened with closure.
In this way if management threaten sackings a policy of occupațion can be carried out under the organisation of a council of action composed of elected representatives from each WHY HELLO -YOU MUST BE JACK OUR NEW APPOINTEE !. YOU'D BETTER TAG ALONG WITH ME FOR A WHILEI'LL SHOW YOU THE ROPES...
JUST AN IRRESPONSIBLE
HOT-HEADED MINORITY(AFTER ALL, IT MAKES SENSE... IF YOU CANT BEAT THE HOT-HEADS-WHY NOT APPEAR TO JOIN THEM?
CORRIE BILL [TUC 79 Vl
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SOCIALIST • IO 5 September, Winter Gdns, Blackpool Called UC HT THE ANTI-UNION LAWS by the Campaign for Democracy in the Labour Movement.
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