One day strike to fight victimisatior
Socialist Press1981 1981-06-25Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 7 →
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TASS members throughout Lucas are to strike on Friday for the reinstatement of Mike Cooley.
Cooley, who is the most renowned figure in Lucas Aerospace, has been sacked after refusing to take a transfer to a job in the personnel department.
He was the only one on his section that Lucas claimed could not be found similar employment.
Cooley is chairman of TASS in Willesden, chairman of the Lucas Aerospace JOC, and a member of the TASS National Negotiating Committee.
He was one of the leading figures who drew up the workers' plan for socially useful work to replace the Lucas Aerospace programme of armament manufacture.
This attack on such leading trade unionist is only the latest in the management's attempts to smash union organisation in Lucas.
In April, Bob Traynor, a senior site representative for APEX at Fazakerley was called in and told that he had been made compulsorily redundant.
The APEX members went on strike and he has since been reinstated.
The Lucas management have felt emboldened by Thatcher's policies to impose massive redundancies, speedup and wage cuts on the workforce.
Thousands nf. inhe have LUTY been lost. over the last year and more redundancies have been announced-particularly hitting Birmingham.
Members of the staffs will be especially hard hit. That is plainly why management have decided to victimise the most well-known white collar trade unionist in Lucas Pushed back The company: have already been pushed back on one such victimisation by supporting strike action. If Friday's strike produces no concessions an all out strike may be necessary to force Cooley's reinstatement.
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