Fighting to Save Jobs
Socialist Press1977 1977-10-26Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 4 →
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Metropole Hotel, outlined howwith the full support of the GMWU workers there put in a £50 a week minimum wage demand.
TWO QUID RISE •We were told we were breaking the 12 month rule because we got a two quid rise last March. It was a joke. We didn't even have a union then."
'We learned from day one. We'd never been on strike before. What we are asking is for the strike to be made official and for other hotel groups to put in the same demand as us.
Eric Walters EETPU described from the lift section of the the official union policy to win their 130% wage increase-imposing an overtime ban!
**How can you work for 40 bours, making the company money A number of delegates and visitors reported on speed up and loss of jobs.
John Plant, from the GLC branch of NALGO reported a Tory move to create 1,300 redundancies in the construction and architecture department before next March.
Despite « a vote at a special general meeting for a strike ballot, the national executive-General Secretary Drain in particular-has refused to allow it to be carried out.
The chairman of the confer 5/55 Tim O'Sullivan, TGWU branch, reported on the dispute in the paint shop at Cowley where the management had now ridden over Colin Kenny the mutuality agreement on speedup with the connivance of convenor Reg Parsons.
Colin Kenny, ASTMS secretary of the London Health Service Stewards' Committee, CLASH. revealed that defence of hospitals had brought a bitter personal attack on him from the union hierarchy.
He was forced to carry bank statements around with him to show that his union subscriptions had been paid.
DIRECT CHALLENGE
The management attack on the Hounslow Hospital had come because any defence of health service facilities and jobs was a direct challenge to government attempts to carry out its policy of cuts.
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bribery is Leyland policy:
"Who would have expected the Daily Mail to have the bloody nerve to bribe somebody £15,000 to reveal the documents (which turned out to be forged) in order to whelming.
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