Glencroft:need for New Move

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Yarn Donations to Glencroft Knoll provides the yarn Knitwear Dispute, c/o operation. It is a subsidiary Glasgow G3 7RZ. the affected unions and other unions in the yard.

Vickers have been told that 400 jobs will be lost in the yard by the end of this year. ing antagonism from the shop floor, especially near Christmas.

Atkinson, chairperson of BS, has said that he expects the action to peter out by four other stewards, and persuaded another 40 workers to take voluntary redundancy.

The occupation started when a mass meeting of the engineers voted five-to-one to reject a redundancy package offering twice the legal minimum plus £1,000 THE September edition of the National Union of Hosiery and Knitwear Workers Journal contained the text of a speech made by Jim Mortimer, former chairperson of ACAS, to. the union's annual conference.

Mortimer, on the basis of his own experience, criticised the inability of ACAS to force employers to recognise unions in their workplace. At Grunwick, George Ward, the firm's owner, simply refused to co-operate and then completely ignored the ACAS decision in favour of the workers.

Yet at Glencroft Knitwear in Glasgow (where 15 women were sacked over two months ago for joining a union), the union leaders are still pinning their hopes un ACAS.

There is a real danger that the whole momentum of the dispute will be lost before ACAS even meets.

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Already the scabs are becoming much more aggressive towards the pickets. They have been running to the police with fairy tales about pickets attacking them at the bus stop etc., with the result that police visited one of the pickets at home about this alleged incident.

And the scab lorry drivers are taking less notice of the picket lines than ever. Previously they usually made their deliveries round the back of the building to try and avoid the pickets. But now they go straight across the picket lines. The most frequent breakers of the picket lines are the Knoll Spinning Company and Salford Van Hire.

to keep the firm of Parkland Textiles (based in Albion Mills, Greengate, Bradford), a conglomerate which includes computer services, pension trusts and other textile and clothing firms amongst its other subsidiaries. The container loads of yarn from Knoll are delivered by Salford Van Hire, which operates from Sherborne Street, Manchester.

Levy This makes new initiatives (a NUHKW weekly levy to finance the dispute, immediate blacking at the airports, "secondary picketing" of Knoll and Salford Van Hire, mass moblisations for the picket lines, etc) more urgent than ever.

NUHKW, 44 Kelvingrove St.,

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