Leaders Ignore Bakers Strike Ballot
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PRESS * Send to: Socialist Press, 31, Dartmouth Park Hill YOUR MANAT THE WE HAVE RESPONSIBILITY TO FIGHT SUCH ELEMENTS.. WITHIN THE UNION THAT KNOCK I THE HARD WORK WE DO...
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DUES MIND YOU-WE ALWAYS ENSURE THEY GET A FAIR HEARING...
JURY forced to stay at work by their union and operate a work to rule.
The 57,000 bakery workers, who are unlikely to put enough pressure on their managements to come up with an improved offer through such half hearted action, are now facing the same kind of witch-hunt in the press as if they were out on strike.
Sake of public
Sam Maddox, general secretary of the Bakers' Union, said that a strike would not be called over Christmas for the sake of the public, ignoring the call of ACCUSE US OF ACTING AS POLICEMEN ON PAY...
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Address the members for just that.
Christmas was an ideal time for the strike since it would have hit the company at a time of bumper profits, and at a time when the small bakeries were too busy with Christmas specials to have scabbed ол • the strike by increasing their output.
Maddox had held back the strike threat until after Christmas without saying when it will be introduced.
The 40-hour week that the members are now working, together with a ban on Sunday work, lops about 20 hours off the normal working week.
Coming so soon after their strike over bank holidays it.
shows the readiness of ba workers to fight to pu end to their appalling pay conditions.
Small enough The claim itself put 1 the union is small ent Maddox says that members are taking acti improve a 6% offer to 1 10%.
The difference is consolidation of Phases 1 2 which i would increase members' overtime pay. The employers-the F ation of Bakers-have ref to consolidate, claiming this would be in breac the Government pay poli £2.21 £5.50 10.00 writt • for del issues. I enclase f.
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