Packing Jobs
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way that new technology threatens mass unemployment within the print industry.
A new edition of the Charter pamphlet - Technology in the Print, Why We Should Resist It - is to be produced.
But unless the programme put forward by the Charter is developed to give definite direction to the fight against redundancies and wage control the danger is that such work will remain abstract propaganda.
A mass meeting last Tuesday of about 1,000 workers at the Export Packing Services factory near Banbury voted overwhelmingly to support a programme of action in defence of their jobs.
In line with the policy of the British Leyland 'participation' committees, all Leyland packing work, starting with the Allegro, is to be withdrawn from EPS into various British Leyland plants. This result in the closure of EPS.
• The decision of the mass meeting was to mobilise immediately a large squad of flying pickets ready to move onto the Cowley plant as soon as Leyland start bypassing EPS and diverting components to Cowley.
The meeting decided to start collecting in order to establish a defence fund capable of sustaining 24-hours-a-day, 7-days-a-week pickets many miles from EPS itself.