Garners -six weeks for a union GEC stay out
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ised than to take up a determined fight for improved wages and working conditions.
TGWU official Abrahams in the Garner strike replies to every demand for all-out supporting action with the takes time"
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Strikers have threatened that all withdrawn from have anything to Workers Socialist L INVE Strikers must clearly keep their independence from TGWU officials who want to isolate and weaken their strike-as happened in last year's hotel unionisation betrayals. statement "it weeks he has agreeing with pickets to four aking steps to ers assist the even been support will be them if they do with the eadue.
Despite desperate attempts by TGWU and AUEW officials to end the dispute, 300 storemen at GEC Stoke plant Coventry have voted overwhelmingly to continue their pay strike.
In a mass meeting held last Friday the officials argued there was no chance of winning the battle.
AUEW official Jim Griffin tried to use the defeat of the firemen to scare the storemen into giving up.
The strikers, however, voted 5-1 in favour of their stewards' recommendation to continue the fightfor a £2.88 parity claim backdated to January 1977 A sit-in at the plant' TIM personnel office and computer room ended when the Company brought a court injunction, but the strike is now sharpened by a strike by computer operators.
In the current round of pay talks GEC has offered 10% and refuses to consider the demands of the storemen and operators because they say they conflict with government pay policy.
The weakness in the attitude of the unions is that they claim their present demands do not conflict with the 10% pay policy, and that therefore the Company should pay out.
Unless GEC workers come to terms with the need to fight government policy then the problems of low pay in the plant will never be solved. HASN'T THAT OLD LINE WORN A BIT THIN?
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