[Redundancy notices were irsued last Friday to 355…]
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Redundancy notices were irsued last Friday to 355 workers at Monkbridge Forge in Leeds, a part of the Daniels Doncasters combine. The sackings will come into effect on 20th August - one week after the summer holidays.
Management blame workers for the situation claiming that the redundancies are because of a rundown in trade, over-pricing and poor quality of production.
They go on to state the grounds on which they will decide who joins the list of redundancies - which include assessments of each worker's quality and quantity of FOrt Dame top and tasertee FIRST OUT In other words, militanis and those who resist speed up will be first out of the gate if management get their way.
The factory, which makes turbine blades for Rolls Royce and Concorde is affected by the run down of the aircraft industry, and suffering from the unplanned development it has undergone.
It now consists of a large number of expensive white elephant machines bought by government money and rented back to the firm.
The stewards must organise the fight back now. These redundancies are only the first wave as the firm can only become less and less viable under capitalist management and face eventual closure.
The fight must begin by forcing the employers to open the account books to an elected trade union committee, to prove the case for the nationalisation of Monkbridge Forge, and at the same time rejecting all redundancies and demanding work-sharing on full pay. National Union of Mineworkers are preparing the with the full backing of the NUM executive.
In the latest issue of The Miner the proposals of the Economic SubCommittee of the NUM are outlined. They plan twelve-man *colliery management" teams for each pit to be elected by secret ballot of employees.
Through these teams, the present consultative committees at which management and unions sit across the table from each other will be abolished.
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