Vauxhall walk out
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Thousands of angry Vauxhall workers at Ellesmere Port walked out last week in an immediate strike in protest at the company's pay offer.
The offer-variously described as 17½% and 13½%—was way below the 25% claim submitted by the unions.
But more important in galvanising opposition were the stringent conditions attached to the offer-including penalty clauses far more wide-reaching than any presently the motor industry.
One provision included granting management the right to fill the jobs of workers involved in sectional stoppages!
In fighting for an adequate increase and against all penalty clauses Vauxhall workers deserve and must call for the fullest support from workers throughout industry, where other employers are sizing up the outcome of the Vauxhall struggle before making their offers. gays.
*End the military offensive against and oppression of the Kurdish, Arab and other national minorities in Iran.
In London a public meeting sponsored by the Committee for Democratic Rights in Iran has been called in Central Halls, Westminster on Friday at 7.30p.m. to be addressed by HKS member Hojabr Khosravi, Shirko Abid of the Association of Kurdish Students Abroad, Fred Halliday, and others.
A demonstration has also been called for Saturday by the AKSA, which will leave Speakers Corner at 1.00 p.m. and march to the Iraqi and Iranian embassies.