Black bosses' ballot!

Socialist Press no. 191, 19 March 1980 · scan pp. 1–2 · about 127 words

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General Strike! Tories Out Even before management finalise their plans to ballot the BSC workers on the 14%-withstrings ofter there are forces in: and around the strike arguing that the unions should participate in it, and fight for a 'no' vote.

But the postal ballotthrough which the individual worker at home is "consulted" while subjected to a barrage of media propaganda and family pressures-is rigged in the bosses' favour from the outset.

And the higher the participation in the ballot, the more credibility it can claim.

This is why the unions must organise a boycott of the ballot, and refuse in advance to accept its outcome, while stepping up the offensive to seal off steel supplies to industry.

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SOCIALIST PRESS, R'ednesday 19 March 1980.