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toy and engineering group nave now returned to work but a divisionwide vote to decide further action is being counted.
Two strikes came to a head recently, clearly provoked by management. The toolmakers at the Hackney Wick factory: were working to rule after management refused to reveal the working party report on pay rates under review since September.
Management are using Phase 3 as an excuse for not having discusssions. They suspended first a progresssion toolmaker and then maintenance men-seven altogether. Hundreds of men walked out in SuDDOrt. announced another.
The meeting, a Nuneaton GMWU branch attended by more than 60 workes, attacked the temporary worker agreement which was negotiated in September.
Under this agreement any new employees are set on on a temporary basis-with no job security and no fringe benefits.
At the time union officials sold the deal by pointing out that "these proposals will secure the position of permanent staff"
Recent events have shown the true nature of the agreement with temporaries being sacked without even a show of resistance from the union and the extra work being offloaded onto the backs of the remaining workers.
At some schools permanent staff have been sacked and re-employed on a temporary basis.
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