Rolls Royce sackings Be one jump
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Last week at the special cheap rates. £3.50 for three months, £6 for six months £11 for a year. From Socialist Organiser, 28 Middle front of an economic boom sweeping the country!
But for workers at Rolls Royce, Hillington, in Glasgow, there was a demand from management for 500 voluntary redundancies, on Wednesday 23rd.
A Rolls Royce shop stewward told us:
'They want 400 voluntary redundancies on the shop floor, and 100 staff.
They called the works committee upstairs on Wednesday and told us then. There was no chance for any discussion. The notices about the redundancies were stuck up before we'd even got back down the stairs.
They must have been planning it for a long time - the posters and the booklets explaining how much you'd get if you went for redundancy had already been produced. The wage claim is due to go in any week now, and the redundancies are designed to undermine that as well.
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Management say the reason is lack of orders and the general recession. They've had a lot of work going out to sub-contractors and now they can't get the orders back. But even if we did get them back, it wouldn't help unemployment. You'd just be putting another factory out the door.
We are imposing an overtime ban. Strike action just isn't on because of the low morale in the factory.
But no one believes the 500 will be the end of it" Lane, London N8. ORGANISER