[still Arthur Pearse, an EETPU Shop Steward at…]
Socialist Press1979 1979-09-19Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 11 →
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still Arthur Pearse, an EETPU Shop Steward at the Vosper Thorneycroft naval yard, Southampton, remains victimised and sacked six weeks after playing a of a new wage deal introducing productivity ties.
Following the victimisation the EETPU Area official E. Scanlon addressed a mass meeting held in the works' canteen and while confirming the victimisation, opposed any support for strike action saying that:
"We (sic) should think of our wives and children before walking out of our jobs."
Scanlon also stated that:
"Now the case has gone to an industrial tribunal we should await its outcome before taking further action"
This, in effect, means that no picket is being maintained on the gate, and no leaflet has been put into the shipyard. "
In thus betraying an elected shop steward, the appointed bureaucracy have weakened the workforce's ability to defend itself against further imposed EETPU Branch 293 of which Pearse is chairman, has passed a resolution demanding his immediate reinstatement-a stand endorsed by Southampton Trades Council.
Such support must be transformed into tangible action if management are not to get away scot-free with victimisation of a leading militant.
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leading role in the rejec- tion by the workforce