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work-in is significant thereneed for remove Duffy and the Executive.
This needs 10% of the union's branches to call for it (about 250) and a two-thirds majority.
Support has been coming in from AUEW branches, district committees and other lalour movement bodies all over the country.
But the Communist Party is trying to limit the struggle to this. At the NUS conference CP members actually opposed a resolution condemning the AUEW Executive!
January 13 must not just be for support, it must point the way forward. Branches must send delegates and put forward resolutions doing this.
Credentials can be obtained from Steve Willetts, 25 Hawne Lane, Halesowen, West Midlands B63 3RN.
An unusual shop floor revolt by the 140strong TGWU membership at Biddles, Nuneaton, last week succeeded in defeating management attempts to force in a wage offer by a secret ballot.
After an initial 15% offer had been thrown out by a mass meeting, management offered a further 50p-but insisted that this had to be put to a ballot.
The convenor and a majority of shop stewards caved in to this demand, and agreed to recommend acceptance.
But angry shop floor workers succeeded in' forcing a mass meeting which, despite the convenors arguments, voted unanimously against participating in the ballot-the forms for which were destroyed there and then-and, by 80 votes to 20, to reject the new pay offer.
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