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Socialist Press1977 1977-11-30Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 11 →
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SOCIALIST N RULES JAMBOREE It was quite a conference for Frank Chapple, ultra-right wing leader of the Electrical and Plumbing Union.
After his publicised speech against wage control, Chapple steered the rules revisIon conference away from any hint of trade union democracy.
Attempts to restore the ction of full time off cers remove the ban on conference two thirds of which had given wagecutter Callaghan a standing ovation.
Big tasks contront electricians if they are to break free from this vicious right wing bureaucracy O'FISHALL.
Your "man at the top" is away this week having been among those union bureaucrats given a free seat on the first Concorde flight to New York.
After nine weeks of one day a week lightning strikes, South Yorkshire PTE have refused to improve on a derisory ten percent offer to Sheffield bus crews.
On the insistance of tull time official, Keith Garner, management's latest offer was put to a ballot vote in Sheffield. and rejected by 900 votes to 500.
Garner, backed by Regional Official Jack Green, saw the ballot in support of the claim as an opportunity to force acceptance of the 10%.
By adding in the separate votes of Rotherham and Doncaster garages (who had already voted to call off industrial action) they discovered a 57 vote majority across the district for accepting management's offer. They declared that Sheffield would be breaking the union constitution if it did not settle. One day strike Sheffield shop stewards reacted immediately by calling a one day strike the following day while the full time official and shop stewards from Rotherham and Doncaster met management.
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Determined Sheffield stewards have the membership's support, and must step up the action. One day strikes must be turned into all-out action.
Strike committee If the bureaucracy attempt to discipline stewards or remove credentials the stewards must be elected as a strike committee, and a campaign launched throughout the TGWU in the area in their defence.
Other bus branches must be contacted and an all out fight waged for the full claim and against the 10% limit.
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