TGWU-some steps forward, some steps back
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A blow against advocates of "workers' particination? and the lahour pipedream of "planning agreements" was struck bv TGWU delegates last week.
A composite resolution advocating these policies was thrown out despite receiving the support of the platform.
The most telling attack on the policy came from Talbot convenor Eddy McCluskey.
He has been secretary of the planning committee drawing up a five-year agreement with Chrysler management-only to discover that the firm had been sold while the negotiations were in progress!
•A delegate from the now closed Linwood plant in later discussions gave an even more graphic account of the same sudden sale. The planning committee had been actually in session, he said, when somebody came in and announced that the firm had been sold to "PSA"
Nobody had known what "PSA" was-and someone had been sent off to find out!
Other delegates pitched into the attack on participation and phoney "worker director" positions which tie the unions to implementing the policies of management.
One Region . 3 delegate correctly stressed that "there is only one control that I'm interested in, and that's workers' control!"
The conference decision is a blow against further Ruder-ctule "narticination" schemes: but it must be followed up by determined opposition to other, less nuert moves towards class 0417A1 607 MAmA collaboration by TGWU , officials