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Get your Socialist Press delivered each week by post Six months (25 issues).. £10.00 One year (50 issues) £18.00 Shipyard workers face a combination of bad news and more bad news in their abysmal pay review agreed last week by Confed negotiators.
Bad news is the fact that the deal offers only 11.5%, plus a £150 lump sum-at a time when inflation is certain to top 20% later this year.
But worse news still is that the £50 million pay deal is entirely self-funding-meaning that the increases are to be paid £2.00 £4.00 £8.00 £14.00 £9.00 £16.00 for in the jobs and conditions of fellow shipyard workers. 3,000 more jobs are to be axed on top of the 6,000 redundancies already announced.
And an October payment is dependent upon "improved productivity and working practices" on a yard-by-yard basis.
Union bureaucrats have already signed up their members for increased flexibility.
This sell out-opposed by the white collar engineers union TASS-must be fought on the shop floor if jobs and conditions are to be defended.
For & PRESS struggle agamst lead in the wage control, cuts and redundancies Send your cheque/P.O. to Socialist Press, BM Box 5277, London WC1V 6XX.
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