ACAS strike
Socialist Press1980 1980-02-20Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 11 →
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FIGHTING THE TORIES, AND I'LL SHOW YOU A TRAITOR TO HIS CASTE!. NOW COME ON — MELP ME GET Workers at F.H. Biddles, Nuneaton, ended their pay strike last Friday after an intervention from ACAS.
The previous week a TGWU official had persuaded the strikers to accept the offer of arbitration which had come, he claimed, "after ACAS saw reports of the strike in the newspapers". Only seven voted to reject the offer of arbitration.
The seven were proved correct last Thursday when the resulting negotiations with management led to a deal which represented little advance on the sity some original offer.
In response to a 25% claim, management offered a 15.5% increase on basic rates plus a productivity deal guaranteed for three months in practice because of the strike this will be only just over two months).
The deal depends on maintaining levels of production above the rate necessary for last year's bonus payments-somethìng: which some workers doubt is possible to achieve.
There was a great deal of opposition to the deal which only-went through by 60 votes to 39.
...AND JUST WHO PAID FOR THOSE EGGS AND TOMATOES THROWN AT POOR SIR KATH AND SIR CHARLES?. ...AND WHEN GAMWU WATER STEWARDS VOTE DOWN THEIR NEGOTIATORS AND GO FOR ACTION, THERE MUST BE SOMETHING GOING ON!.
• NEVER! YOU SHOW ME AN OFFICIAL REALLY THIS EGG STAIN OFF MY HAT!