Sacked for Striking!
Socialist Organiser1981 1981-09-03Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 13 →
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Stan 15 women members of the National Union of Hosiery and Knitwear Workers at Glencroft Knitwear, Ingram Street, Glasgow, are in the third week of their official strike, after a walkout over redundancy and subsequent threats of sacking of all 15 by the boss, Mr Leon Newman.
They went back initially on the advice of the Scottish Secretary of their union, Mike Humphries, so that a meeting could be arranged, but Newman refused to see them collectively as union members, so they came out Efforts to get Newman to negotiate have been fruitless and he has issued andare: 1003* the omer Delere: buton: ee =: *== been stopped #::-1 are refusing io pic -? -: for despatch bur ine :es: :: the workforce (30 nOrunionised workers) are crossing the picket line, have torn up leaflets asking them to join the strike, and are also despatching the goods blacked by the postal workers.
The union have taken the case to a tribunal, to be heard on September 2.
Meanwhile efforts to get the firm's washing operations at another plant blacked are being made.
Messages and donations to NUHKW, 44 Kellingrove Street, Glasgow.