[4½% because the fake lefts collapsed in front…]
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4½% because the fake lefts collapsed in front of him, Jones, together with the Executive, is acting contrary to the decisions of the last Biennial Delegate Conference - as in UCATT, the supreme policy making body.
Indeed the wages policy adopted at the T&GWU BDC suports the social contract with the abour government only on the basis of a list of stringent conditions - including massive increases in public expenditure and no interference in the right of free collective bargaining.
STEWARDS ATTACKED In order to flout union policy and get away with it Jones and his supporters have had to carry bureaucratic dictatorship into every level of the union.
In particular, they have had to attack the independence of the shop stewards movement. In Hull docks all 16 T&GWU shop stewards have had their stewards cards suspended by the Regional Committeein an attempt to crush the power and independence of the unofficial port shop stewards committee.
In Leyland the Ryder plan is being brought into full use as a lever for the introduction of company wide bargaining as opposed to individual plant This would be a major blow at the shop stewards movement. It would further hamstring the struggle for wages in Leyland, and Cont'd on back page XE