Metro strikers return to work
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SUBSCRIBE to Socialist Last week 900 workers on the Mini Metro assembly track in Longbridge voted to return to work after a week on strike against speed-up on the track.
During that week less than 4 mass meetings were held to pressure them into a return to work. Two of those meetings were addressed by the district officials as well as the works committee. The dispute was referred to by Thatcher in parliament.
Eventually the pressure was successful and the strike was broken.
The strike was essentially about jobs. Speed up is about putting workers on the dole and the ending of this strike is another step in that direction.
The irony is that the very officials who pressed for this particular return to work support the People's March for Jobs.
More pious heat is generated in the official trade union movement about the evils of unemployment than any other issue-but in practice the story is always very Rates Trial sub (UK).
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The Metro strike wi created entirely by tt management's offensi inside the plant.
Work effort on the Met1 has reached the stage whe: workers are pushed out ‹ station because they cannı hold the job-they are thr disciplined by manageme: for "insufficient effort"
This came to a head wi the headliner gang wl walked i out-they we quickly followed by the re of the 900 warkers in t trim assembly area.
This is typical of t offensive going on throug out BL and industry general at the present tin It is very closely link to the dispute in Ford Ha wood over discipline pror dures.
Pious speeches will n defend jobs or protect t unemployed.
The defence of jo means the full strength the trade unions being us at the point where jobs = threatened, thus creating t conditions for the employ‹ and the government to pushed back on the issue.
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