Out for 20pc at Bingley

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250 workers at Anderton International, Bingley, are on indefinite strike for a 20% pay claim.

Strike action was taken when, four months after the claim was submitted, the management proposed "not a firm offer but a broad idea of settlement for discussion". The figure involved was 10% on basic rates.

But, as Convenor Steve Davidson pointed out, the 20% claim would only keep living standards standing still.

Last year's wage claim took 20 weeks to settle after over. time bans and a work to rule were imposed.

Determined to avoid a repeat of this, the stewards opted for strike action. The strikers have received the support of local workers and collections have been taken-one at a recent meeting of Confed delegates.

Management are claiming

'that if they pay the claim in full 'it would add £220,000 to the wages bill.

However, Aurora Holdings, which owns Anderton Inter¡national, paid out record dividends of £635,000 last year.

Sliding scale If on the admission of the Convenor the 20% claim will merely maintain existing living standards there is clearly a need to fight for a sliding scale of wages linked to inflation as assessed by elected committees of trade unionists and housewives.

At the same time strikers should fight for the opening of the books of the company and of Aurora Holdings so that the workers can see for themselves the profits being made out of their labour and prepare to fight for the nationalisation without compensation under workers' management of the company.

WE'LL FIGHT EVERY INCH OF THE WAY TO DEFEND JOBS AND PAY PACKETS-STOP THE PUBLIC SERVICES BEING CUT TO SHREDS BY THE POLITICAL VANDALS IN GOVERNMENT!

(ATABOY, JACK!

EXIT JACK COME BACKIT ALL SEEMED TO BE GOING SO WELL!

The management sacking of 47 Air India workers in Britain has led to an official strike by 400 of the workers at the booking offices and Heathrow.

The mass meeting last Friday heard the TGWU officials Ashwood and Collier explain that the dispute could be a long one as the bosses are refusing to consider the reinstatement of those sacked, which include 10 shop stewards, the convenor and the branch secretary.

This is a blatant attempt to break the union-as a statement put out by the strikers explains. it is also part of an attempt to reduce the staff--one manager has boasted that he could run the operations just as efficiently with 150 people less.

To lay the ground for this reduction a major feature of this year's wage negotiations was a new flexibility of labour agreement which the TGWU went some way to meeting while insisting that they were consulted first.

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