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Managements have drawn strength from the cringing collaboration of union officials, and every retreat by these "leaders" spurs on a new The latest management technique against strikers is modelled exactly on the British Leyland ultimatum to the striking 3,000 toolroom workers-start work or be sackea, with the full consent of union leaders.
This was taken a stage further at Heathrow Airport where 3,000 maintenance engineers were sacked in an effort to break their strikethough management later backed down on this.
But now in Scotland the Clyde Port Authority has sacked the entire 29-man maintenance squad at the Greenock container terminal-because they took strike action over a sick pay claim.
Management have announced the terminal Will be closed for at least two weeks while scab labour is recruited and trained.
AUEW and EETPU members must call for immediate action in support of the sacked men, and against the local union officials concerned.