Bakers Fight Against Low Pay
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£3,000 FUND Our Special Fund has received a welcome boost since the last issue of Socialist Press. A total of £405.01 has arrived at the office in the last two weeks, bringing the total to date to £2,317.19.
Among the latest donations were: Central London: £20; JW £44.30; JS £14; AS, Stoke £3.75; Derbyshire reader £1; Hertfordshire reader £9; MS £12.50; MH £30; CK £5; Posters £20; Birmingham £15; Liverpool £3.40; Hull £6; Sheffield £20; Car workers £27.75; Leeds £31; Aylesbury With a little over two weeks to go to the end of the month, an extra special effort will be needed to raise the outstanding £682.81. At the same time the regular £600 monthly fund should not be forgotten. The raising of this fund is essential to the day to day running of the paper.
Bakers striking for Bank Holiday money have recorded massive votes all over the country in support of the action revealing that this dispute goes well beyond the single issue involved.
Behind the demand for paid bank holidays, there is rising concern over long hour: and low pay workers take home about £55 for a 60-hour week.
The Federation of Bakers have taken a hard line over the issue after conceding equal pay and regrading to the Bakers Union in the past 12 months. They are banking on defeating the bakery workers over this side issue before the annual talks on pay.
-FITTERS' STRIKE 27 fitters at Cartransport, Coventry are on strike in a dispute involving company plans to sack nine of them.
Cartransport, who are moving to a smaller depot, have been negotiating for a reduction in staff across ali sections-drivers, yard and security men and fitters, and have been insistent that nine of the 27 fitters must lose their jobs.
The strike started after fitters received letters from management on August 25, saying they would finish work on September 30.
Up to now there has been no work at the depot due to layoffs in the car industry-and the strikers have decided not to call out the drivers, who are contributing to a hardship tund.
However now the Lucas dispute is ended it will be essential for the drivers to ensure that no other maintenance section or contractor