[Only days after the Singer management announced that…]
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Only days after the Singer management announced that all 3,000 jobs at Clydebank were to be lost, the stewards in the plant caved in and offered no plan for resistance.
This was supposedly because of tenuous "interest" in the Singer plant by two American companies and vague promises of government aid.
This is one method of allowing the Singer management a free rein to dispose of the factory.
The American firms would only be interested in Singers if they could las at Marathon) impose speed-up, no strike clauses and redundancies on the workforce.
UNION DUES The point is that workers can never trust management. The only way of preserving the Clydebank. plant is by an occupation of the factory, opening the books of the Singer combine to committees of trade unionists and fighting for supporting action as part of the fight against the hated anti-working class Tory government.
*Occupy Singers and open the books!
*Appeal to all workers to take action in support of the occupation against the Tories!
*Nationalise Singers without compensation under workers' management.
*No redundancies! For work sharing on full pay while trade union committees map out a programme of useful public works for the plant!
Offalle AT THE FIGHT THE CUTS THIS.!. THE LAST WORD IN • WEVE PRODUCED THE FIGHT AGAINST THE FIGHT AGAINSI THE CUTS... ALL THE OTHER TUC LADS HAVE GOT IT, AND IT'S A REAL GEM.
TUC 101 VACUOUS SPEECHES AGAINST THE CUTS ANTI-TORY CLICHÉS WITH SELECTED CAN'T YOU SEE...
EVERY BLASTED
TRENDY IS USING THEM AS A BANDWAGON... CALLING FORACTION, ...EVEN WHEN HE CALL TOKEN DEAONSTRATIONS WE GET EVERY TOM, DICK AND HARRY TURNING UP!
•SILICON, CHIPS...
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GH Thousands of men and women will join the TUC march this coming Sunday against John Corrie's reactionary anti-abortion Bill. Lil FEATHE TROP 19EL ABORTIONS defend jobs, living standards or public services and who essentially agree with the Tories that "a woman's place" is chained to the home, producing and rearing children. action, and attempted to hold it back within the bounds of peaceful protest.
But since then the growing confidence of the working class has brought other developments: notably, extreme right wing Labourite Reg Prentice (an anti-abortionist) was ousted by Newham Labour Party and forced to reveal his true Tory Thatcher instructing Labour MPs to vote against the Corrie Bill or face removal from office.
Strikes and occupations to defend threatened hospitals and NHS facilities must be coupled to demands for the extension of abortion facilities.
In opposing Prior's forthcoming anti-union laws, workers must show that such attacks are simply part of a range of Tory