Women fight for unions
Socialist Press1977 1977-11-16Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 10 →
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Two long running struggles for unionisation are taking place in Wolverhampton.
13 women workers at Tunnicliffe's sporting darts factory have been on strike for six weeks demanding reinstatement.
Management sacked them after they joined the General and Municipal Workers Union.
They have been offered reinstatement if they agree to leave the union.
And at Gorman's Pork Products, women workers are in the fifth week of a struggle against the sacking of 10 new recruits to the TGWU.
Management conducted a "ballot"-by calling in scab HIrFlATC individuallv and port, TGWU District Otficer Littlehales is allowing two TGWU-organised firms to continue supplying Gormans -without even notifying them the dispute was on.
Some welcome backing however has come from students at Wolverhampton Polytechnic who have voted to support the picket lines and fight for a black on Gorman products.
The local labour movement must demand full scale actions, which indicate the official support for these growing resistance of working women to management oppression.
Finance is urgently needed and should be sent to:
IGWU, Mrs. S Moseley, 3 : lewkesh ury Road, Mossley Estate, Blo ‹wich. of Darlington to reveal details of the NGA 'proposals' which have held up spreading strike action throughout Westminster Press.
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