Weir sackings
Socialist Press1980 1980-06-25Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 11 →
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780 jobs are under the axe at the Cathcart and Alloa plants of Weirs Pumps, in a redundancy plan which management blame on reduced demand for their products.
The firm had been regarded as one of the few stable elements in the devastated Scottish engineering industry, though the sackings follow on redundancies in Weirs British plants this year, and run alongside a proposed 120 redundancies at Weir Westgarth.
Stewards of unions at Cathcart-where 590 jobs are to gohave met and imposed a total ban on overtime and called for supporting action to prevent work being sub-contracted from the factory.
But the stewards' statement focusses heavily on seeking means of propping up the company, and shows that they have not yet taken the decisive step which is the prerequisite to a serious fight against the sackings: declare an unequivocal commitment to occupy the plant and begin the fight for concrete supporting action from the local and national labour movement.
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