Gpo Cut
Socialist Press1976 1976-11-17Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 10 →
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Thousands of jobs in the telecommunications industry are threatened by a £220 million reduction in orders by the Post Office for telephone exchange equipment.
The labour force in the industry has already dropped from 78,000 in 1970-71 to the present level of 60,000 Earlier cuts in Post Office orders last year have resulted in a planned 10,000 sackings. 1,000 of • these, Just under one-third of the company's exchange installation my CEC, of the first quarter ol by GEC, next year.
Estimates of the number of sackings which will follow the latest cut vary. between 10,000 and 15,000.
It is vital that attempts by the union leaderships involved to form alliances with employers be fought. EEPT particular repudiate of thir fadership's call for telecommunications industry employers and anions to take a joint stance to oppose the cuts.
Instead of working out how the employers could make more profit through boosting exports the unions should be starting from the independent interests of workers -demanding work sharing on pay and the opening of the books af telecommunications firms such Pes, Stan telephone ane Standard Telephone and COMMUNICATIORS LTD TIN'ST WORKS, NO CYCLIN ATTHN THI FACTOR BAD CLO ADRIVE
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SOCIALIST PRADI, Metacie, 17% Noratoo 1976