Pay strikes solid
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After 13 weeks of strike action in pursuit of their 17% pay claim, 600 Rolls Royce workers at Willesdon remain determined to achieve their full demands.
Management have refused to offer more than 10%.
Despite attempts to isolate, confuse and even ballot them back to work, the strikers show no sign of weakening in a dispute that has delayed a Rolls Royce to be added to the Queen's already packed garage.
And at the giant Raleigh cycle factory at Nottingham mass meeting of 4,000 voted to press ahead with their 3-week strike for demands for increases of up to £27 per week.
5,000 workers, nearly all members of the Metal Mechanics union are on strike. Management have again offered only 10%.
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